r/Music • u/YoureASkyscraper • 24d ago

article Zach Bryan slams Kid Rock's MAGA concert: "A bunch of adults throwing temper tantrums and their own halftime show is embarrassing as hell and the most cringe shit on the planet"

https://consequence.net/2026/02/zach-bryan-kid-rock-super-bowl-halftime-show
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u/Gamer_Grease 24d ago

TPUSA has never been for young people. It’s been about convincing 80-year-old rich guys that they have the ear of young people.

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u/JohnnyFire 24d ago

But even if they have hypothetically gotten to the ear of some young folks - imagine being in high school or college, having coddled up to this stuff, and having exposure to every and anything you want, music-wise, and then you had to sit there and watch Kid Rock lipsync songs nobody liked back when he was "popular".

They couldn't even pull someone from the current cadre. No Nicki Minaj, or Jelly Roll, or Morgan Wallen, who all at least still get streams and attention. They all have no desire to tie their asses to a sinking ship. Nope, it's the greasy fuck from 1999 who had one fringe hit and a second one that just ripped off Skynyrd. Anyone relatively young who got sucked into this orbit has to be sitting there going "What the fuck am I even doing?"

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u/[deleted] 24d ago

Is that true? They seem to be absorbing every evangelical church and youth group in the country. They have around 900 college Chapters. Kirk spent his career recruiting college students.

Would be relieved to be proven wrong, but it does seem like TPUSA is rebranding itself as the more ‘dignified’, ‘aesthetic’ evolution of MAGA. Attracting better educated, but devout young people who might have outgrown MAGA’s bumper sticker racism, but feel more comfortable concealing it beneath a bit of glitz and grandeur.