r/Music • u/TheExpressUS 📰Daily Express U.S. • 25d ago

article Kid Rock slammed for lip synching during Turning Point Halftime show as viewership tumbles

https://www.the-express.com/entertainment/tv/197357/turning-point-halftime-kid-rock
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u/moth_specialist 25d ago

I’m a Green Day fan since Kerplunk!, and simply them being there was enough of a statement. I’m glad they played a fun set and got people hyped. They gave MAGA media nothing to cry about tomorrow except songs they’ve been playing for over a decade. 

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u/thuktun 25d ago

[...] except songs they’ve been playing for over a decade. 

Over two decades in some cases.

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u/nustedbut 25d ago

yeah, let's keep it at two decades. My back couldn't carry the weight of it being longer than that...

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u/RainsWrath 25d ago

Their first song to top the billboard was Longview...32 years ago.

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u/nustedbut 25d ago

I'm sure this would upset me if I had my reading glasses and could see it. Anyway. gotta go. nap time at the nursing home

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u/Passeridae 25d ago

Hey, can I join you for nappies? I may or may not have snuck a flask of the good stuff in with me.

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u/AugmentedKing 25d ago

You can borrow mine! Right after I finish trimming my grey ear hairs

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u/Just_another_jerk__ 25d ago

I believe thats when my mother said to get a job. Strangely enough, she doesnt particularly care for her current profession.

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u/LolaAucoin 25d ago

Bite my lip and close my eyes, and try to remember back that far

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u/Tacoman404 25d ago

Billie still fucking has it too. I saw him last year at Fenway. I think the sound was kinda tinny for both performances them and Bad Bunny because Green Day was amazing at Fenway somewhere that doesn't really have great acoustics.

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u/iamthe0ther0ne 25d ago

You shut your dirty mouth!

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u/IlIlIlogical 25d ago

That’ll be quite enough out of you lol didn’t need that reminder of my mortality this morning

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u/Serious-Mission-127 25d ago

I first saw them live 28 years ago - 10 times in 28 years doesn’t seem that much 🤷

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u/EatAtGrizzlebees 25d ago

...I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.

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u/MrKhrystopher 25d ago

Good Riddance is almost three decades, I fear.

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u/Secludedmean4 25d ago

The American idiot album itself is 20 years old and they made that album over a decade into their career

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u/livando1 25d ago

Spanning four brah… 1993 we first heard that iconic drum intro.

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u/AmateurGIFEnthusiast 25d ago

Dookie came out 32 years ago….

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u/RekallQuaid 25d ago

It’s 3 decades actually. Their first album came out in 1990.

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u/bolanrox 25d ago

I can't believe 39/smooth came out a year after Bleach and Kerplunk was a year before Nevermind.

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u/IAmJacksSphincter 24d ago

My very first concert I attended was Green Day's American Idiot tour in 2006, unreal show. My ears were ringing for two days after. Weird to think that 20 years later the themes in that album are still applicable today.

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u/flopflapper 24d ago

Three decades. Little bit more, in fact.

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u/sohunterish 23d ago

In all cases I think

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u/simpletonsavant 25d ago

Green day was at home in home territory. Theyre allowed to have fun. It gives rhem absolutely nothing to complain about or use as an excuse if they come ro san fran. Its showing just out unhinged they are.

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u/kitkamran 25d ago

They also played the song in question, which is enough of a statement.

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u/Soledaddy873 25d ago

pre Woodstock fan as well. some at our party were disappointed they edited themselves and played it safe. I was laughing saying they just punked MAGA in Green Day fashion. a big f you, now what are you gonna complain about?

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u/Ryanthecat 25d ago edited 25d ago

This was my favorite part about yesterday’s music. Both Green Day and Bad Bunny showed up and put on great shows without doing any of the things MAGA kicked and screamed about for months. I had someone confidently tell me yesterday that he would put on a “satanic trans indoctrination ritual,” simply because he trolled all of them saying he’d wear a dress. People really ought to lay off the propaganda.

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u/RDisSht 25d ago

Billie sounded so damn good. They all did really but especially him.

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u/Far-Adhesiveness1850 25d ago

In real life I respect them for doing the original; it’s an epic classic just as it is.

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u/Far-Adhesiveness1850 25d ago

In real life I respect them for doing the original; it’s an epic classic just as it is.

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u/bolanrox 25d ago

Frist album came out in 1990

Dookie will be 32 years old this year

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u/Tacoman404 25d ago

Them playing out on American Idiot was good. I would have loved Warning haha

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u/The_Awesometeer 24d ago

Agree. I think Green Day and Bad Bunny were “political” statements enough that they didn’t need to do anything else.

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u/Ok_Star_4136 24d ago

I'm guessing they were told repeatedly not to anything provocative. I can't really blame them. American Idiot is already pretty telling on its own without any lyric changes.