Later, Musgraves dressed up in a flannel shirt and jeans for her second number, “Camera Roll.” Both songs played in the season premiere were from her new album, “Star-Crossed.” Musgraves’ rep confirmed she was shielded from the audience by a sheet as the performance was set up. She was super chill, kinda walked off stage in the towel and waved.

After the song, they moved it back to cover her again and covered her with some sort of towel/robe. Right before her first song, they set up a moveable wall, blocking the audience from seeing her. I was on the audience side closest to her. “After her performance people gathered around her with large towels to wrap her so could stand and walk off stage.” Wrote another: “Was at the live. “I was in the dress rehearsal audience,” wrote one Reddit user.

On Reddit, fans who attended the live taping and dress rehearsal of the show in New York Saturday had been insistent that what you saw really was what you got… although they did not see everything. “Boots by Birthday suit by wrote stylist Erica Cloud. Prior to having it confirmed by her publicist, the singer/songwriter affirmed what the intent had been when both she and her stylist took to social media to post the inspiration for the performance: the similarly non-electric/non-clothed performance of Robin Wright’s Jenny, singing as “Bobbi Dylan” in the film “ Forrest Gump.” But it hardly escaped everyone, as the did-she-or-didn’t-she-doff question grew as a topic of discussion over the weekend, with admirer Howard Stern bringing it up on his show Monday morning.

It’s safe to say that a large portion of the viewing audience didn’t even notice, as the mostly mood-lit Musgraves was seated on a stool with a decent-sized acoustic guitar, a strap across one shoulder and hair draped over the other, cross-legged. “Precautions were taken, and this was the first time it’s happened on the show.” “She was nude,” Musgraves’ publicist confirms to Variety. Her appearance on the first number of Saturday’s show was achieved just as it looked: completely in the buff, boots excepted. It’s official: everything was real about Kacey Musgraves’ performance of “Justified” on “ Saturday Night Live” - no lip-synching, no miming and certainly no feigned nudity.

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