Jake Shane Addresses Backlash Nearly 2 Weeks After His Viral Interview with Kasey Musgraves
Jake Shane Addresses Backlash Nearly 2 Weeks After His Viral Interview with Kasey Musgraves
Zoey LyttleMon, May 18, 2026 at 8:03 PM UTC
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Kacey Musgraves on 'Therapuss'; Jake Shane on 'Therapuss.'
Credit: Netflix/Instagram
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Jake Shane has addressed the backlash he received after a clip of his Therapuss podcast interview with Kacey Musgraves went viral
After the episode premiered on May 6, some viewers questioned Shane's inquiry about one of the country star's seemingly straightforward song lyrics
"We can laugh," the influencer captioned screenshots of criticism directed his way in response to a video from his conversation with Musgraves
Jake Shane is choosing to laugh and let some recent viral criticism roll off his back.
The influencer hosted Kacey Musgraves on an episode of his Therapusspodcast to talk about her career, her recently released album, Middle of Nowhere, and some of her other hits personally favored by Shane. After their conversation premiered on Netflix on May 6, some viewers raised their eyebrows at a question he asked about the country star's song "Slow Burn."
After Musgraves, 37, called the 2018 track one of her proudest pieces of work, Shane, 26, followed by noting his favorite lyric. The line, as he paraphrased, goes, "In Tennessee, the sun's goin' down/But in Beijing, they're headin' out to work."
Jake Shane's Instagram Stories on May 16, 2026.
Credit: Jake Shane/Instagram
Shane asked his guest, "What do you mean by that? Me and Manny, who I work with, debate it every single day.”
Musgraves responded with some apparent surprise, "Really? It's not a deep-coded thing." After his continued prompting, she added, "It literally just means what it means. It just means they're going to work, and I'm over here. Like, the sun's going down in Tennessee, and over there across the world ... it's a different day, and they're going to work."
The exchange was clipped out and reposted across social media platforms, with many people calling out the simplicity of the lyrics and questioning if Shane understood the concept of time zones.
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"Why did this need to be explained??" one TikTok user wrote. Another commenter added a laughing emoji and joked, "Time zones baby. They're real."
The moment also garnered attention from media outlets, which Shane acknowledged when he finally addressed the viral reaction over a week later. He posted a set of Instagram Stories on Saturday, May 16, first resharing an X post making fun of him in the moment.
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"Like I'm ready to laugh. we can laugh," the online personality wrote in overlaying text. The following post showed Google search results for top stories about the incident, which included headlines about Shane being "mocked" for his "nonsense" question.
"Like this was a real thing I saw on Google," he added of the headlines shown in the screenshot, which he also uploaded to TikTok on Sunday, May 17.
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Source: “AOL Entertainment”
