{"id":465103,"date":"2026-02-10T04:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T04:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/465103\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T04:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T04:28:11","slug":"kid-rock-was-laughably-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/465103\/","title":{"rendered":"Kid Rock was Laughably Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JVL, Sarah Longwell, and Adrian Carrasquillo give their takes on the record-breaking Super Bowl halftime show by Bad Bunny. The Puerto Rican superstar delivered a joyful, confident, massively popular performance and MAGA promptly lost its mind. The trio break down why Bad Bunny\u2019s show worked, why Kid Rock\u2019s conservative counter-programming flopped, and what it all says about Trump losing his grip on American culture.<\/p>\n<p data-attrs=\"{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.thebulwark.com\/p\/kid-rock-was-laughably-bad\/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}\" data-component-name=\"ButtonCreateButton\" class=\"button-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebulwark.com\/p\/kid-rock-was-laughably-bad\/comments\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"button primary\" target=\"_blank\">Leave a comment<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As always: Watch, listen, and leave a comment. Bulwark+ Takes is home to short videos, livestreams, and event archives exclusively for Bulwark+ members.<\/p>\n<p>Add Bulwark+ Takes feed to your player of choice, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebulwark.com\/s\/bulwarkpodcast\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JVL, Sarah Longwell, and Adrian Carrasquillo give their takes on the record-breaking Super Bowl halftime show by Bad&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-465103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}