Kacey Musgraves has shared the emotive second lower from her new album ‘star-crossed’, following the smoky and dramatic title observe with ‘justified’.

The observe serves as a poignant reflection on Musgraves’ divorce from nation singer Ruston Kelly, musing about how “healing doesn’t occur in a straight line” over a mattress of mild acoustic strumming, empyrean synths and punchy, but understated percussion.

On the refrain of ‘justified’, Musgraves sings: “If I cried just a bit, after which laughed within the center / If I hate you, and I like you, and I modify my thoughts / If I would like just a bit extra time to take care of the truth that you need to have handled me proper / Then I’m greater than just a bit justified.”

‘justified’ arrives alongside a music video that takes viewers on a street journey with Musgraves, doubling as a clip from the star-crossed movie set to accompany the titular album. Check out it under:

Each the new album and movie are set to land September 10 through Interscope/Polydor/UMG Nashville. The album options 15 tracks, stated in a press launch to be “structured as a modern-day tragedy in three acts”, which “tells an especially private journey of heartache and healing”.

The album’s accompanying movie can be streamed completely on Paramount+ within the US, Latin America, Australia, the Nordics and Canada. Followers within the UK and different areas will be capable of watch it on MTV. It was directed by Bardia Zeinali, who’d beforehand directed music movies for the likes of Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande.

“We wished it to really feel cinematic and epic with out compromising the guts and emotion,” Zeinali stated upon the movie’s announcement. “To really feel fantastical and heightened and inform [Musgraves’] story by way of the lens of artwork and style.”

Earlier this month, Musgraves previewed two new songs throughout an look on the podcast A Slight Change Of Plans. In the course of the episode, she sang verses from the unreleased tracks ‘angel’ and ‘digicam roll’.