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.”
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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