Kid Rock has directly responded to rumours circulating online that he was 'lip-syncing' during his Turning Point USA Super Bowl performance.
The 55-year-old 'All Summer Long' singer, real name Robert James Ritchie, headlined at the 'All American' halftime show, which was pegged as an alternative to Puerto Rican hitmaker Bad Bunny’s official Super Bowl performance on Sunday (8 February).
Kid Rock, along with a handful of other country artists, reached up to 6.1 million concurrent viewers during a livestream at the same time as the 31-year-old Grammy winner's performance at Levi’s Stadium in California.
Bad Bunny, however, is expected to have brought in more than 100 million viewers, per the Independent, making history as the first Super Bowl headliner to perform almost entirely in Spanish. Official viewership figures have not been released yet.
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Kid Rock's set was taped on a stage in Atlanta, according to Variety, and was followed by several speculative claims that he 'lip-synced' during the show.
The country singer appeared on The Ingraham Angle on Fox News yesterday (9 February), where he addressed the speculation head-on.
He confirmed that the alternative halftime show was pre-recorded and later insisted he was 'out of sync' rather than lip-syncing.
"My DJ, who actually raps that song with me, he was not lit up," he said, referencing the performance of the track 'Bawitdaba'.
"It would have been super easy to sync it up if [the vocals were] pre-recorded," he stated.
"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."
Speaking to the host, he continued: "I'm jumping around the stage like a rabid monkey, rapping my song, and I’m taking breaths, and my DJ is filling in the other parts of it - I even told them when I saw the rough cut, I was like, 'You guys got to work on that sync. It’s off'."
He added: "So it was just a syncing issue that they had, and I know they tried to get it right. It was very difficult."
He also promised that he and his DJ would post a video of them rapping the song together in his living room to prove they could perform it live.
Elsewhere during the interview, Kid Rock slammed Bad Bunny's performance, claiming: "Like most people, I didn’t understand any of it."
He said that the performance was 'not my cup of tea', before noting: "But I don’t fault that kid 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."
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Rhiannon Ingle