“Music is interesting. I grew up listening to... - The Massive Continuity of Ducks

““Music is interesting. I grew up listening to classic rock. And I’ll tell you sort of an odd story: My music tastes changed on 9/11. I actually intellectually find this very curious, but on 9/11, I didn’t like how rock music responded,” Cruz said on CBS’s “This Morning” when asked about his music tastes.”

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Ted Cruz: 9/11 made me a country music fan.

Um. Musical genres don’t “respond” to anything, dumbass.

Actually, as a life long country music listener, I have to disagree with Mr. Wheaton. Musical genres do respond to things. Country does.

Have you heard Toby Keith’s ‘Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue’? Or Alan Jackson’s ‘Where Were You When the World Stopped Turning?’ that still makes me cry when I hear it? Or Darryl Worley’s ‘Have You Forgotten’? Not to mention the countless songs written from the prospective of soldiers and their families.

I don’t know how rock music responded to 9/11, or if it responded at all. But to hear that Ted Cruz became a country music fan after 9/11 doesn’t surprise me at all.

(The Alan Jackson song is the only one I might suggest you go find if you’d like to cry for five minutes. The other two will only piss you off.)