DETROIT — Kid Rock is denying reports that his performance at Sunday’s “All American Halftime Show” was lip-synced, but in doing so he admitted that the show was pretaped.
Users on social media noted Rock’s performance of “Bawitdaba” during Turning Point USA’s alternative Super Bowl halftime show appeared to be lip-synced. During an appearance on Fox News Monday, Rock told host Laura Ingraham that when he initially saw playback of the performance, he too noticed his vocals appeared out of sync.
“I even told them when I saw the rough cut, I was like, ‘You guys gotta work on that sync. It’s off,’” Rock said, proving the performance was not live. “So it was just a syncing issue that they had, and I know they tried to get it right. It was very difficult.”
The difficulties came from Rock “jumping around stage like a rabid monkey,” he said. “It would have been super easy to sync it up if (the vocals were) pre-recorded,” he said. “It was very difficult for the Turning Point production crew — who, by the way, I can’t say enough good things about — but this was very difficult for them.”
Rock said he was going to tape a performance with his DJ on Monday at his home in Nashville, Tennessee, to show the way they share vocal duties on the song, and he said he planned to release the video on Tuesday.
“I’ll answer all the haters tomorrow,” Rock said.
Rock also commented on Bad Bunny’s halftime performance at the Super Bowl, saying, “Like most people, I didn’t understand any of it.”
Bad Bunny performed in Spanish, the first Super Bowl halftime act to do so.
Rock said Bad Bunny’s performance was “not my cup of tea, but I don’t fault (Bad Bunny) for doing the Super Bowl, getting in front of a global audience,” he said. “I fault the NFL for putting him in that position and Turning Point for having to come out and have an alternative for people to watch. You know, it’s just — poor kid.”
Turning Point USA’s halftime show also featured Brantley Gilbert, Lee Brice and Gabby Barrett. The show drew roughly 6 million viewers during the livestream, and the archived video had been viewed more than 20 million times on YouTube as of Monday night.
Ratings for Bad Bunny’s halftime show were not available as of Monday, but the archived video had been viewed more than 47 million times on YouTube as of Monday night.
