Published Feb 10, 2026, 12:48 PM EST
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For some US citizens, the idea of listening to a half-time show in Spanish was so unbearable that they had to host a little side party, entirely in English, featuring artists who wouldn't upset their delicate ears. The headliner was none other than aging Kid Rock, who was called out immediately for lip-syncing his words.
However, he has come forward and tried to explain away the lack of synchronization between his voice, the microphone movements, and the music. He insists that he was just a victim of bad sound engineering and that he was absolutely singing his song. He promised he performed it live, and instead pinned the blame on the techies and synchronization.
The five-minute video shows the 55-year-old hillybilly hero explaining that the show was pre-recorded before it was aired. He claims that he did, initially, record it live, jumping around in his usual fashion for the 200/300 people in attendance. He goes on to state that in post-production, the audio and the video were not synced up. This made it appear that he was lip-syncing the show.
So, the show wasn't live. It was pre-recorded before the Turning Points USA show. Then, it was up to the production team to sync Kid Rock's voice up to his mouth. However, as he claims, they did a bad job of it because he loves to jump around, and the team just wasn't capable of matching their recorded audio to his movements.
The footage from the Turning Points halftime spectacle shows Kid Rock repeatedly moving the microphone from his mouth and often not appearing to sing at all. This gave people reason to believe that he wasn't singing live. But, in the five-minute video uploaded to X, Kid Rock really proves them wrong. He and his DJ grace his X followers with almost a full minute of the song, fully a cappella. He gets all the words right.
One commenter backed him up, but perhaps didn't fully grasp what he meant when he said that the production team messed up in post. She confirmed that "I had to turn off my TV, then turn it back on, then it synced up." This Kid Rock fan might still be loyal and believing, but many others in the comments have called him out on what they consider to be a cover-up, expressing feelings of betrayal at what they hoped would be a true-blue American half-time show.
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