Kid Rock Spills the (Lip-Synced) Tea: What Really Went Down at the Super Bowl Performance That Had Everyone Scratching Their Heads?
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Is it just me, or did Venus go retrograde specifically to mess with Kid Rock’s Super Bowl halftime counter-programming? That’s right—under the cosmic influence of a Leo moon, Kid Rock took the stage (well, sort of), belting out “Bawitdaba.” But while he was giving chaos, the internet gave him chaos theory—cue accusations of lip syncing flying faster than Mercury in Aries. Can you imagine trying to keep your music and your mouth lined up under that kind of celestial pressure?
Honestly, with so many jump cuts and camera angles, I’d be lucky to sync up my lipstick, let alone a high-octane 1998 anthem . But here we are, having to ask: Is it even possible to pre-record something “but perform it live?” What did your horoscope say about watching illusions this week? Kid Rock is laying it all out, explaining the production snafus, absolute mayhem, and why he’d never fake it—at least, not on “Bawitdaba,” thank you very much . Lip-sync or legend, fantasy or faux pas…this is one halftime saga that even the stars couldn’t have predicted .
Ready to read Kid Rock’s fiery video rebuttal and the wild reactions that followed? LEARN MORE.
Kid Rock sang “Bawitdaba,” but it looked like “Baw-da-what-now?”
President Trump’s favorite rock artist is defending his Super Bowl halftime show counter-programming performance against allegations of lip syncing.
Kid Rock took to X to explain, “My halftime performance was pre-recorded but performed live. No lip-syncing 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.”
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The singer said that amid the frantic edits in his high-intensity performance of the 1998 hit, the production didn’t correctly sync the music to his performance in every shot.
“That song is chaos,” he said in a video (below). “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 do it to. We performed this song every night on tour since 1998 since the day it was released. Turning Point USA sent me a first cut [after] we taped it and my comment was, ‘the sync is off.’ They were trying to line it up … It was very difficult for them, because somebody clearly wasn’t super familiar with the song. It could have been done had we had more time.”
“So I have nothing but good things to say — not only about Turning Point, but the production team that they work with,” he continued. “Nobody’s perfect 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, ‘the sync is off.’ But they had to lie and say, ‘Oh, he was lip syncing.’ Then people amplify this all over the internet. And I know most people don’t even care, but the certain people just keep repeating it, so people think it’s a fact.”
“And this goes on on both sides,” he added, “They did it to Bad Bunny, in his defense, when … he was on Saturday Night Live … they [claim lip syncing] far too often, especially in the fake news media, the crazy libtards.”
Jimmy Kimmel was among those mocking the TP USA halftime show, saying in his Jimmy Kimmel Live! monologue last night that the concert “was not a good program.” It went off with “a lot of hitches,” including what he called Kid Rock’s “lip sync battle with himself.”
MAGA “complain(s) about how bad everything is, and then they do it worse,” Kimmel said.
Here’s Kid Rock detailing what happened:
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