Child Rock Torched Over ‘Hillbilly’ Halftime Present

Child Rock could also be enthusiastic about headlining Turning Level USA’s “All-American Halftime Present,” however social media customers aren’t. Within the remark part of a latest put up sharing the information about Child Rock, a proud Donald Trump supporter and conservative American, netizens slammed the right-wing group and the musician over their “joke” of a present.

The pushback in opposition to Child Rock and Turning Level comes amid backlash in opposition to the favored singer Dangerous Bunny after he was introduced as this 12 months’s Tremendous Bowl halftime present performer. The negativity appears to be persevering with after the singer’s look on the 68th Annual Grammy Awards, throughout which he spoke out in opposition to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and their sweeping raids throughout US cities.

Based on a number of sources, together with Fox Information and TMZChild Rock is headlining Turning Level USA’s various Tremendous Bowl halftime present on Sunday, February 8.

The present is predicted to include different artists, together with Brantley Gilbert, Lee Brice, and Gabby Barrett.

Turning Level introduced that the present would air on 5 networks plus its social media channels, together with YouTube and X.

Child Rock launched a press release concerning the present by Turning Level USA, saying, “We’re approaching this present like David and Goliath. Competing with the professional soccer machine and a worldwide pop celebrity is sort of unattainable…or is it.”

Talking about Dangerous Bunny’s upcoming efficiency, Child Rock added, “He is stated he is having a dance social gathering, sporting a costume, and singing in Spanish? Cool. We plan to play nice songs for people who love America.”

After information of Child Rock’s involvement within the upcoming present was shared on-line, social media customers weighed in with their unfiltered ideas.

One consumer known as Rock and the TPUSA group “determined,” whereas one other predicted that the present would “be a multitude.”

One other consumer questioned why TPUSA pursued Child Rock “of all folks,” whereas a fourth known as the present “Hillbilly Halftime Antics.”

“That is actually racism,” another person wrote, to which one other known as the halftime present a “joke.”

Child Rock’s upcoming halftime present comes after the NFL confronted criticism over its resolution to have 31-year-old Puerto Rican world music celebrity Dangerous Bunny headline the Tremendous Bowl halftime present.

Donald Trump spoke out in opposition to the transfer throughout an look on Newsmaxsaying he’d “by no means heard” of Dangerous Bunny earlier than alleging that the singer “hates ICE.”

“I do not know who he’s. I do not know why they’re doing it, it is, like, loopy,” Trump stated. “I feel it is completely ridiculous.”

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell fired again, although, standing by the league’s resolution to highlight Dangerous Bunny.

“I am undecided we have ever chosen an artist the place we did not have some blowback or criticism,” he stated. “It is fairly laborious to do when you might have actually lots of of thousands and thousands of individuals which can be watching.”

“It is an vital stage for us,” he continued. “It is an vital aspect to the leisure worth, and it is rigorously thought by.”

Earlier than Tremendous Bowl viewers get an opportunity to see Dangerous Bunny dwell in the course of the halftime present, he made his presence identified throughout this 12 months’s Grammy Awards, shutting the home down in a hanging black swimsuit.

Throughout his acceptance speech for Album of the 12 months, Dangerous Bunny used his second to share a message.

“I am gonna say, ICE out,” he stated, in accordance with The Blast. “We’re not savage, we’re not animals, we’re not aliens, we’re people, and we’re People.”