Kacey Musgraves Shades Ted Cruz With Lyric Change While Performing In Texas

“You tin archer Kacey Musgraves is simply a existent Texan by the measurement of her hairsbreadth and however overmuch she hates Ted Cruz,” tweeted Cat Cardenas. The writer/editor/photographer was successful attendance during Kacey’s headlining acceptable astatine the Austin City Limits Music Festival connected Sunday nighttime and shared a video of Musgraves, 34, taking a changeable astatine Sen. Ted Cruz. While performing her opus “High Horse,” Musgraves worked the Texan Republican’s sanction into the lyrics, singing, “cause everyone knows idiosyncratic who kills the buzz / each clip they unfastened their rima — Ted Cruz!” As the assemblage cheered, Musgraves added, “I said what I said.”

you tin archer @KaceyMusgraves is simply a existent Texan by the measurement of her hairsbreadth and however overmuch she hates Ted Cruz ❤️ pic.twitter.com/HNXbN0xjo3

— Cat Cardenas (@catrcardenas) October 10, 2022

The state vocalist has a past of taking a changeable astatine the arguable politician. Cruz, 51, famously took his household connected a travel to Cancún, Mexico, successful February 2021 aft a wintertime tempest deed Texas, leaving residents without electricity, water, and heat. Though Cruz initially claimed helium was dropping disconnected his children, The New York Times published leaked texts betwixt Sen. Cruz’s wife, Heidi Cruz, and immoderate of their Houston neighbors. Mrs. Cruz complained that their location was “FREEZING,” she allegedly “invited others to articulation them astatine the Ritz-Carlton successful Cancún, wherever they had stayed “many times.” In effect to each this, Kacey Musgraves tweeted, “*makes ‘CRUZIN FOR A BRUZIN’ tees* donates profits to Texans successful need.” She aboriginal tweeted, “Link coming soon. Don’t RUN OFF anywhere…” and “Texas is cold, I tin beryllium cold.

*makes “CRUZIN FOR A BRUZIN” tees
* donates profits to Texans successful need

— K A C E Y (@KaceyMusgraves) February 18, 2021

Texas is cold, I tin beryllium cold. https://t.co/TglB3AsEkt

— K A C E Y (@KaceyMusgraves) February 19, 2021

Musgraves’s shadiness comes astir a week aft Harry Styles dipped his toed into Texas politics. While performing astatine the Moody Center successful Austin, the “As It Was” vocalist decided to propulsion his enactment down Beto O’Rourke, who is presently moving to unseat Texas Gov. Greg Abbott successful the upcoming election. While playing his guitar, Harry pointed to the “Beto For Texas” sticker helium placed connected the instrument. O’Rourke, 50, was successful attendance that night, and Styles pointed retired the person earlier calling him a “lovely, beauteous man.”

Kacey Musgraves (Jack Plunkett/Invision/AP/Shutterstock)

O’Rourke has been hammering Abbot implicit weapon unit – helium famously crashed Gov. Abbot’s property conference pursuing the massacre astatine Robb Elementary schoolhouse successful Uvalde – and Abbot’s run to portion bodily autonomy distant from women by outlawing abortion aft six weeks.

However, it’s been an uphill conflict for Beto. Though O’Rourke came adjacent to defeating Ted Cruz successful the 2018 Senate race, Newsweek points retired that Gov. Abbot has led O’Rourke “in each Texas canvass this year.” Though Abbot has led the polls, Newsweek also noted that O’Rourke has been capable to lessen that pb down to azygous digits.