Overview
- Kid Rock said the Turning Point USA halftime performance was pre-recorded but performed live, rejecting claims he lip-synced "Bawitdaba."
- He blamed the issue on a production sync problem and on missing cutaways of his DJ, Paradime, who shares the vocals during the song.
- He told Fox News he flagged the rough cut as out of sync and argued the discrepancy would have been easy to avoid if the segment were actually lip-synced.
- He said he plans to post a live demonstration with Paradime from Nashville to show how they perform the trade-off vocals in real time.
- Turning Point USA’s alternate halftime show was pre-taped in Atlanta and featured Brantley Gilbert, Gabby Barrett, and Lee Brice; it drew up to 6.1 million concurrent YouTube viewers, while NBC said Bad Bunny’s official halftime averaged 128.2 million viewers, and Kid Rock also criticized social media rumors he said had similarly targeted Bad Bunny.