Kid Rock's Lip-Syncing Sends TPUSA Halftime Show Straight To The D-List

Kid Rock completed his transformation from local star to MAGA rocker in Turning Point USA's Super Bowl alternative (read: salty) halftime show, but we're not convinced it did his image any good. Jorts are one thing, but jumping up and down and obviously lip-syncing? Oop. 

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ICYMI (or you were busy watching the actual Super Bowl halftime show), Kid Rock's segment of the TPUSA lineup saw the 55-year-old performer burst onto stage with his song "Bawitdaba" and a mic that was purely ornamental. Despite seemingly calling "My name is Kid" into it right at the start of his set, the lip-syncing became super obvious, super fast, with the musician pulling the mic away from his mouth several times — and his voice not sounding any different. It only became more obvious as his set went on, particularly as he jumped up and down and showed off his best dance moves, which included some heel-toe shuffles, mic flipping (again, as his vocals continued), and a not-at-all cringe-inducing fedora moment that had us wondering if we'd gone back in time to 2008. 

Unfortunately for Pamela Anderson's ex, his mishap didn't go unnoticed. Far from it, social media users had a field day with just how overt the lip-syncing was. "He's lip syncing and doing a very bad job of it," wrote one X (formerly Twitter) user, and TBH, that was one of the nicer comments. "Not even singing most of the actual song. Lmao they seeing [an] old man do karaoke basically," penned another. Yet another joked, "He didn't sound particularly awful, he sounded just like the record — which was obvious when he was still 'singing' despite not moving his mouth." Not everyone was that scathing, though. Case in point, the concerned X user who wrote, "I feel so embarrassed for him."

Sadly for Kid Rock and the rest of the Turning Point USA halftime show gang, lip-syncing wasn't the only thing social media users had a field day with. Au contraire, many were quick to poke fun at what seemed to be a very low turnout — and the production team's attempts at hiding that. 

"There was a bigger crowd in the stadium bathroom," wrote one X user of the sparse audience. "The whole 17 people there look thrilled," quipped another. One pointed out, "How many people are in the crowd? It looks like less than 100. No crowd shots, and the people right at the stage to be about two deep lol." It was a sentiment another had shared as well, writing in part, "What's that, like 100 live-audience members? They're doing the tight shots." The tight shots weren't the only eyebrow-raising editing people noticed, though, and another complained, "How many camera cuts. My G-d." As for the audience's applause, not everyone was convinced by that either. "They have crowd cheers from Coachella or something. It's far too much for that TP crowd that's actually present," one noted. 

Of course, not everyone was focused on the crowd or the lip-syncing. Some were more concerned with Kid Rock's outfit, which may just have been one of his worst yet. "Nothing says badass like some khaki shorts and a pair of white New Balance dad shoes," one critic joked. In fairness to Kid Rock, we're not sure the shorts were khaki, because many pointed out that they were actually jorts. That's not to say they liked those better, though. "Ruined jorts for me if I see anyone wearing jorts from now on they are Kid Rock to me," one X user lamented. Thoughts and prayers.