Pride Month Music 08-Follow Your Arrow by Kacey Musgraves
Music Lettering
Happy Pride Month! 🌈🏳️🌈
As we approach the end of Pride Month, I’m creating lettering pieces celebrating music related to LGBTQIA+ community. My goal is to expose people to good music and artists while also help bringing the community filled with diversity together, since music is like a universal language that can touch anyone’s heart.
Follow Your Arrow is the positive vibe we all need in this world.
I love how non-judgmental the song is, simply advising us to follow whatever direction our hearts truly desire. This short life is yours alone, so you should live it honestly and wholeheartedly.
Accept who you are and what you want. Stop making choices based on what others say or the societal norms we’ve been conditioned to follow. People will always find something to criticize, so you’re better off following your own path and living authentically.
The song also teaches us to be open-minded about the differences we all inevitably have. Because , in the end, no matter how different we may seem, we are all fundamentally the same—people with hearts and souls who want to live life on our own terms. So, let others choose their own paths, just as you choose yours.
For the lettering, I embraced the concept of following your arrow by drawing arrows pointing in various directions, symbolizing the freedom to choose any path your heart desires. The background incorporates a sense of forward movement, like an arrow in flight, to strengthen the concept further.
Follow Your Arrow by Kacey Musgraves
If you save yourself for marriage, you're a boreYou don't save yourself for marriage, you're a horrible personIf you won't have a drink, then you're a prudeBut they'll call you a drunk as soon as you down the first oneIf you can't lose the weight, then you're just fatBut if you lose too much, then you're on crackYou're damned if you do, and you're damned if you don't
So you might as well just do whatever you want
So, make lots of noise (hey)Kiss lots of boys (yup)Or kiss lots of girls, if that's something you're intoWhen the straight and narrow gets a little too straightRoll up a joint, or don'tJust follow your arrow wherever it points, yeahFollow your arrow wherever it points
If you don't go to church, you'll go to HellIf you're the first one on the front row, you're self-righteous son of a-Can't win for losin', you'll just disappoint 'emJust 'cause you can't beat 'em, don't mean you should join 'em
So, make lots of noise (hey)Kiss lots of boys (yup)Or kiss lots of girls, if that's something you're intoWhen the straight and narrow gets a little too straightRoll up a joint, or don'tJust follow your arrow wherever it points, yeahFollow your arrow wherever it points
Say what you think (say what you think)Love who you love (love who you love)'Cause you just get so many trips 'round the sunYeah, you only, only live onceSo make lots of noise (hey)Kiss lots of boys (yup)Or kiss lots of girls, if that's what you're intoWhen the straight and narrow gets a little too straightRoll up a joint, I wouldAnd follow your arrow wherever it points, yeahFollow your arrow wherever it points