Kacey Musgraves Talks About Squashing Years-Long Feud With Miranda Lambert

Kacey Musgraves said she wishes "the whole world could sit down and have a beer together and just figure it out," like she did with Miranda Lambert.

The two country artists ended a years-long feud and teamed up on a duet, "Horses and Divorces," which they wrote with Shane McAnally. The song appeared on Musgraves' latest studio record, Middle of Nowhere, which she released earlier this year. Musgraves recently spoke with PEOPLE for the publication's November 2026 cover story, including about the reunion with her fellow Texas-born country star.

"We do have things in common, but we are very different in ways. We can, at this point, salute each other and say, 'Hey, we're both at least women in country music, and cheers to that,'" Musgraves told PEOPLE. "I do wish the whole world could sit down and have a beer together and just figure it out. Hey, if Miranda and I can, maybe everyone else can too."

Musgraves and Lambert delivered a surprise live performance of "Horses and Divorces" at Gruene Hall, an iconic venue in New Braunfels, Texas, around the time Musgraves released Middle of Nowhere. She previously told Variety, in part, "oh, there was [real beef between the two artists]. It was grass-fed, grade A."

Lambert said of the duet in an interview with Southern Living last month, "it worked out really well, because we got to air out some things we needed to say to each other while writing this song about coming back together, which was really cool. And I love the way it turned out. To me, it feels a little like Willie and Waylon.

"Country music always has stages and phases and ups and downs, but I haven't seen this many women winning since probably the 1990s," she said in the interview of female artists thriving in the genre. "When I say 'winning,' I don't mean awards. I mean just being out there doing the damn thing. It's really good to see. I know what that takes, so I respect it a lot and am thankful to be part of it."