Photo credit:  LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – FEBRUARY 04: (L-R) Kacey Musgraves and Beyoncé attend the 66th GRAMMY Awards on February 04, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by John Shearer/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)

On April 24, composer and producer INK, who worked on Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter, suggested that Kacey Musgraves was nearly engaged with Queen B’s latest country album at a Black Music Action Coalition panel.  INK mentioned that she wrote with Musgraves during Cowboy Carter’s formation during the discussion about Black women in country music.  “I actually met Kacey because Parkwood, Beyoncé’s company, sent us down there and it was [Beyoncé’s] idea for us to just go to Nashville and really be on the ground and working with those types of people,” she explained, “She sent us down there because we were making country music, we wanted to bring that spirit…Kacey was amazing. We made five songs in one day.” INK’s future album will feature one of those tracks, but none made it onto Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter, though it was close.