Kid Rock war lächerlich schlecht

JVL, Sarah Longwell, and Adrian Carrasquillo give their takes on the record-breaking Super Bowl halftime show by Bad Bunny. The Puerto Rican superstar delivered a joyful, confident, massively popular performance and MAGA promptly lost its mind. The trio break down why Bad Bunny’s show worked, why Kid Rock’s conservative counter-programming flopped, and what it all says about Trump losing his grip on American culture.

He’s never been good, so who is surprised?

Hillbilly Vanilli

It’s almost like there’s a metaphor in there that „creativity“ sourced from exclusion never works out, whereas art that includes everyone will reach more people.

I just watched it twice. I am a liberal person but I’m not criticizing his performance because of politics or any sort of animosity.

It was embarrassing. I almost felt bad for him. His whole performance was a little over 2 minutes long. And half of that was the beginning of the song. So there was really only about 1 minute of actual performance. And it’s not that his lips weren’t matching the song because you couldn’t see his lips that much when is microphone was up to his face. But he kept dropping his arm and pulling the microphone away from his mouth while the vocals keep going. This happened several times, and it’s only one minute long.

So it just kind of boggles my mind from a performer standpoint. I have several questions.

Can he genuinely not perform one minute’s worth of live music anymore? And if he truly can’t, fair enough. But then why can’t he lip sync any better than that? I mean he’s been in show business for a while now. Just keeping your microphone up at your mouth at the times you’re supposed to be vocalizing doesn’t seem to be *that* hard. If he’s embarrassed by the quality of his vocals then he should just sing into a dead microphone. At least there will be a more convincing illusion of singing.

This performance is probably reaching more people than he plays to live in a year. And that’s what he did with his time? Lip sync poorly for one minute? It’s weird and sad.

Just IMAGINE how much hard work and effort goes into the 15-minute show Bad Bunny put on: all of the musical talent, microphones everywhere, the choreography, building the sets, deciding on making the bushes people, makeup, hair, security, even the camerawork was masterful and scripted. All for free on NBC.

Meanwhile Kid Rock shows up in jorts and lip syncs badly to his original CD while jumping around like a 4 year old. All while they beg to sell you merch.

He was laughably bad. He still is, but he also was.