How many viewers tuned into Turning Point USA’s halftime show?
Turning Point USA’s aired an alternate halftime show in response to Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime performance.
Kid Rock denied that his performance at the “All-American Halftime Show” was lip-synced after watchers pointed out inconsistencies during the performance of “Bawitdaba.”
Rock said in a video on X, posted on Feb. 10, that the production crew who filmed the performance was not “super familiar” with the song and did not show his DJ, Paradime, whom he alternates lyrics with during the song.
“When we’re rapping it, that song takes so much energy,” Rock said. “He’s filling in those words for me so I can (catch my breath), bang my head, keep going and carrying on.”
Rock acknowledged in a Feb. 9 interview on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle” that the performance was prerecorded and that syncing issues were noticed in early edits.
“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. “So it was just a syncing issue that they had, and I know they tried to get it right. It was very difficult.”
Rock said that the production “had a difficult time getting that sync together” but that the crew was “top notch, first class all the way,” in the Feb. 10 video.
It was unclear in the marketing of the halftime show prior to the event if it would be presented live or if it was pre-recorded. Turning Point USA, the conservative activist organization that put on the show, did not respond to emails from USA TODAY before the show asking for clarification.
Kid Rock calls out media
Rock took swipes in the Feb. 10 video at what he called “fake news media, left wingers, crazy libtards” that claimed he was lip-syncing.
The “All-American Halftime Show” was presented as a response to the official Apple Music Super Bowl halftime show headlined by Bad Bunny as the choice of the Puerto Rican megastar drew backlash from conservatives.
During the Fox News interview, 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.”
“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,” he said.
Rock appeared shortly after the Bad Bunny performance ended. During the head-to-head window the “All-American Halftime Show” appeared to hit a peak of around 5 million viewers on YouTube. The NFL said in a Feb. 10 press release that the Bad Bunny performance averaged 128.2 million viewers in the U.S. with global numbers to be released “early next week.”
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