Songfacts®:

• Over a warm and inviting melody, Kacey Musgraves straddles the line between love and heartbreak with some clever wordplay on this track:
  
  Be good to me and I'll be good to you
  But please don't be too good to be true
  
  A possible inspiration for the song is Cole Schafer, a poet Musgraves dated for about two years. They split a few months before the song was released.
• Kacey Musgraves co-wrote "Too Good to be True" with her frequent collaborators, Daniel Tashian and Ian Fitchuk. The two also collaborated with Musgraves on her albums Golden Hour (2018) and Star-Crossed (2021).
  
  Singer-songwriter Anna Nalick also gets credited because the song interpolates elements of her 2005 hit "Breathe (2 AM)."
• "Too Good to be True" was released as the second single from Deeper Well on February 29, 2024. Musgraves recorded the album at Electric Lady in New York rather than in Nashville. "I was seeking some different environmental energy, and Electric Lady has the best mojo," said the country star.
• Kacey Musgraves performed "Too Good To Be True" and "Deeper Well" on the March 2, 2024 episode of Saturday Night Live. This was the singer's third musical appearance on the long-running show.
• The "Too Good To Be True" video was directed by Scott Cudmore (N.E.R.D., Feist, Justin Bieber). The clip is a mind-bending exploration of the song's themes, blurring the lines between reality and fantasy.
  
  We see Musgraves recording the song in the studio, but is that all there is? The video becomes a metanarrative, constantly questioning what's real and what's just a carefully crafted illusion. Are they "too good to be true," mirroring the song's central question?
• "Too Good To Be True" explores the vulnerability of stepping into new love after past hurt. "It takes a lot of bravery to put yourself out there again," Kacey Musgraves shared with American Songwriter. "But I do think that's why we're here as humans, and it can be easy to stay in this little world, currently single world, where you can control every aspect of everything, and it feels good."
  
  "But you also grow a lot as a human by rubbing up against someone else's shortcomings and them rubbing up against yours," she continued. "And it's just scary. Conflict is inevitable with love. It's part of it. I think I was just in this mindset at that point in time of like, 'Okay, I'm opening myself up again here.'"