Kid Rock responded to viral accusations that he was lip-syncing during his performance for Turning Point USA’s (TPUSA) alternative halftime Super Bowl show, and in doing so potentially revealed an unknown truth.
The NFL faced a degree of backlash when they announced that Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny would be delivering the traditional halftime show at Super Bowl LX.
In response to some Americans claiming to be alienated by the idea of the 31-year-old performing a set in Spanish, TPUSA – now led by Erika Kirk – promised to stage their own show, dubbed the “All-American Halftime Show.”
Super Bowl viewers were thus given a choice: stay on the same channel and watch Bad Bunny, or head over to YouTube to watch a new competitor.
Yet no sooner had the halftime shows ended than did Kid Rock (the act chosen by TPUSA to headline their effort) face accusations of lip-syncing. In fact, there is speculation to be found that insists the entire “All-American Halftime Show” was pre-recorded.
In a new interview with The Ingraham Angle on Fox News, Kid Rock adamantly denied that he had been lip-syncing throughout his set, though he also revealed a detail about performance’s production that may imply it was not entirely live.
“I’m jumping around the stage like a rabid monkey, rapping my song, and I’m taking breaths, and my DJ is filling in the other parts of it,” Rock (real name Robert James Ritchie) explained.
“My DJ, who actually raps that song with me, was not lit up.”
The 55-year-old went on to state that the syncing issue made it difficult for the production team to get everything right in post-production, admitting that his performance wasn’t without its problems.
“I even told them when I saw the rough cut, I was like, ‘You guys got to work on that sync. It’s off,'” the singer said.
For some fans, that comment was proof enough that Kid Rock’s performance was pre-recorded, with the syncing issue appearing to confirm that the show was not truly “live,” despite what viewers may have been led to believe.
Rock opened his set with a shortened version of his 1999 hit Bawitdaba, then performed a slow, acoustic rendition of Cody Johnson’s ’Til You Can’t. During the set, he added a self-written third verse honoring Charlie Kirk:
“There’s a book sitting in your house somewhere that could use some dusting off. There’s a man who di*d for all our sins hanging from the cross. You can give your life to Jesus and he’ll give you a second chance. Till you can’t.”
Whether or not TPUSA’s show was “live” hasn’t been confirmed beyond all doubt either way, but one thing that has become public knowledge is the amount of people they were able to attract away from the Super Bowl.
As per The Independent, the “All American Halftime Show” drew 6.1 million concurrent viewers. Meanwhile, 100 million-plus viewers reportedly tuned in to see Bad Bunny’s halftime show.
Which halftime show did you watch? Let us know thoughts in the comments.
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