Musgraves unveils "The Architect" video

Musgraves gave a solo acoustic performance of "The Architect" on the 2024 CMAs last month. The track also received two nominations of out of her total of five Grammy nods for Best Country Song and Best Country Solo Performance. The song was derived from Musgraves' exploration of life's unknowns and her contemplation about whether life is driven by a higher power or if there is a blueprint for its course.

Musgraves said she wrote this song with her friends Shane McAnally and Josh Osborne in Nashville "around the time or a couple weeks after the insane Covenant School Shooting that happened there, and the community was just reeling and it felt just so off and scary. And you know, we got together to write a song, and we even felt guilty just being able to meet up and write a song and get to do something so pleasant as that when something so crazy had just happened. It sparked this very real conversation about life and how it's really confusing how there's so much suffering. There's also so much beauty at the same time, so it's this great weird duality of being a human, especially in these modern times."