Kid Rock is firing back at “haters and fake news” who have taken issue with his performance at Turning Point USA’s Super Bowl halftime show.
Kid Rock Sounds Off
Social media users have spent the past few days claiming that Kid Rock was lip syncing during his performance of “Bawitdaba.” Indeed, according to them, Kid Rock’s performance did not match up with the video feed.
This didn’t sit well with Kid Rock, who has since fired back at these critics on social media.
“My halftime performance was pre recorded but performed live,” Kid Rock wrote on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. “No lipsycing like the haters and fake news are trying to report.”
“When they synced the cameras to my performance on ‘Bawitdaba,’ it did not line up as I explain in this video,” he added.
In the video accompanying this post, Kid Rock blamed this controversy on a production glitch.
“That song is chaos,” he began. “The first thing is, if I was ever going to lip-sync — which I wouldn’t — that would be the last song I would ever have to bring in the fold to do it to. We performed this song every night on tour since 1998, since the day it was released.”
“So the Turning Point event, they sent me a first cut [after] we taped it, my comment was, ‘the sync is off.’ They were trying to line up … It was very difficult for them, because somebody clearly wasn’t super familiar with the song,” he continued. “It could have been done had we had more time.”
The official Super Bowl halftime show featured the Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny. Turning Point USA streamed Kid Rock’s performance at the same time. Joining Kid Rock for his show were the country music stars Lee Brice, Brantley Gilbert and Gabby Barrett.
‘For The Haters And The Trolls Out There…’
“So I have nothing but good things to say — not only about Turning Point, but the production team that they work with,” Kid Rock stated. “Nobody’s perfect, gets it right every time. But for the haters and the trolls out there, that’s exactly what happened.”
“And by the way, most of you know this … Some of you in the entertainment world can look at that and be like, ‘oh, the sync is off,'” he argued. “But they had to lie and say, ‘Oh, he was lip-syncing.’ And then the problem is people amplify this all over the internet. And I know most people don’t even care, but there’s certain people just keep repeating it, so people think it’s a fact.”
“This goes on on both sides,” Kid Rock said. “They did it to Bad Bunny, in his defense, when they were saying he said ‘You have four months to learn Spanish.’ He was on Saturday Night Live, I think he was joking. But they do it far too often, especially in the fake news media.”
Check out Kid Rock’s full comments on this in the video below.
Kid Rock Doubles Down
This comes days after Kid Rock responded to the Fox News host Laura Ingraham, who described his performance as being “out of whack.”
“It was out of sync,” Kid Rock admitted. “Actually, just to have some fun with the haters. I can’t answer all the trolls, but it’s going to be some fun. My DJ, who actually raps that song with me, he was not lit up. He’s coming to Nashville tonight, flying in. We’re going to do that live in my living room and I’m going to post it tomorrow to show people exactly how this works.”
Kid Rock concluded by saying if he had really been lip-syncing, this mistake never would have happened.
“It would’ve been super easy to sync it up if it was prerecorded,” the seasoned musician explained. “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… I even told them when I saw the rough cut, I was like, ‘You guys got to work on that sync. It’s off. It was just a syncing issue that they had, and I know they tried to get it right. It was very difficult.”
Even with the production glitch in question, Kid Rock’s halftime show was still widely hailed as a big success. We applaud Kid Rock for standing strong in the face of the “haters” who have been attacking him over the past few days.
God bless you, Kid Rock!