Kid Rock humiliated as he's snubbed from Donald Trump's MAGA festival line-up
https://www.irishstar.com/culture/entertainment/kid-rock-freedom-250-festival-37216555
https://www.irishstar.com/culture/entertainment/kid-rock-freedom-250-festival-37216555
135 Comments
i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca · 212 pts · 78d
I’m sorry his what now?
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world · 154 pts · 78d
Yup. Both of them are PISSED!
DrakeAlbrecht@lemmy.world · 52 pts · 78d
"There are dozens of us! Well, okay, tens of us. Oh all right, ten of us. If you round up."
pdxfed@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 78d
Who said roundup? Yee haw!
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 78d
Crap not again . . Someone get the hose
frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io · 25 pts · 78d
Aren't these idiots up in arms on a daily basis? Gun-toting hicks tend to be up in arms at a minimum, with very little inebriation required to shift into riot mode.
Hayduke@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 78d
Yeah, that was a typo. Wasn’t supposed to be plural.
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 77d
Fans (sic)
lemmyng@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 78d
His fan(s).
SailorFuzz@lemmy.world · 137 pts · 78d
Kid Rock got shown up by fucking Vanilla Ice and Milli Vanilli. Who thefuck in the past 30 years has ever thought "I wanna hear Vanilla Ice and Milli Vanilli".
Jesusfuck, 250th year Anniversary of this country and this is the "talent" we have to show for it. Fucking Vanilla Ice and Milli Vanilli......
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world · 65 pts · 78d
Has ANYONE actually heard Milli Vanilli?
Solventbubbles@lemmy.world · 65 pts · 78d
I mean, tbf to Milli Vanilli, they dropped out. In fact, their response was something along the lines of "we never signed up for this shit"
Floodedwomb@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 77d
Several artists said that they were never even asked.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 77d
Hasn't the group only been one guy since the other one died in 1998?
PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 77d
The denial of involvement was from vocalists Jodi and Linda Rocco
dmtalon@infosec.pub · 24 pts · 78d
I hear what you did there
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 78d
Yeah in the press conference after being busted for lip-synching one of them (fab or rob or gab or throb or whatever, idk) sang to prove he could.
I mean, yeah, it was fine. Whatever. The quality of the vocals wasn’t my main problem with them.
aceshigh@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 77d
Girl you know girl you know girl you know…
ieGod@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 77d
Unpopular opinion but as a collective artistic project I have no real issue with their music. And in fact, it's quite good. Yeah sure their presentation was dishonest but I'd argue no more than modern auto tuned artists.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 77d
Isn't it just Milli now? I thought Vanilli offed himself. Or maybe it's the other way around. It would be disingenuous if one of them claimed to be a Milli or a Vanilli, when they aren't. Girl, you know it's true.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 77d
I think they got someone else to off themselves for them.
kometes@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 77d
Milli Vanillus. It's Latin.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 77d
I don't even know what this is. Does it come in any other flavors, or just vanilla?
TrippyHippy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 76d
their name is pretty much synonymous with the biggest lip-syncing scandal in pop culture history.
UnrefinedChihuahua@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 29 pts · 78d
~~I hadn't thought about it before now, but I'd take Ice over Rock any day.
Vanilla Ice was in TMNT...what else could you want?~~
Edit: Fuck Vanilla Ice too, per below.
MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 77 pts · 78d
Vanilla Ice is full blown MAGA and is letting the current admin use "Ice Ice Baby" as an I.C.E. theme song
UnrefinedChihuahua@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 37 pts · 78d
Okay well I did not know that so fuck him too then.
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 78d
The Ninja Turtles did not deserve this!
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 78d
Ooh bad move, yo.
Cethin@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 77d
I'm not doubting it, I just want it clarified. Is he letting them, or are they just doing it? The Trump Adm. has used a lot of artists stuff without permission, and have even continued to use it after they told them to stop. Has he actually made a statement allowing it, and if not, has he made a statement asking them not to?
MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 77d
Well, he DID headline Trump's Mar-a-Lago NYE party, and now he's doing this America 250 thing, soooo...
mrmisses@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 78d
TMNT would never do a trump event unless it was to kick their Nazi asses. Fuck vanilla. Is he going to do his hits from 35 years ago?
treadful@lemmy.zip · 18 pts · 78d
Wait, didn't that actually happen recently?
EDIT: Yep: https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-79-gets-his-dad-dance-on-with-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtle/
lemmyng@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 78d
Boy, I can't wait for Paramount to sue hi-OH WAIT A FUCKING SECOND.
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 77d
Paramount also owns UFC. Yanno, the thing that's going to happen on the freaking White House lawn.
ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 77d
Hit.
tpihkal@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 78d
Ice Cube maybe.
Bloomcole@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 77d
public enemy?
UnrefinedChihuahua@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 0 pts · 78d
Duh
abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 77d
To be fair, we have plenty of talent from 250 years. It's just that most of them don't want to perform for Trump.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech · 3 pts · 77d
You know they were so butthurt about the Superbowl they threw their own party. Their party here is going to suck and we all k ow it, time for everyone else to throw their own 250th party
abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 75d
I'd love to see 250th Anniversary parties everywhere but with giant "No Kings/Fuck Trump" banners everywhere, so they can't try to spin it as "oh look they all joined in"
Nah, fuck your ego-feeding birthday party, we are having our own party, with community and social wellness.
Jhex@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 78d
well Milli Vanilli being a fraud is quite on point for anything this regime does
adarza@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 78d
this article's a good read.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/feb/01/milli-vanilli-fab-morvan-interview-grammy-book-you-know-its-true
EyIchFragDochNur@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 78d
Milli Vanilli are French and German
nickiwest@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 78d
Shh! Grandpa doesn't know that!
Bloomcole@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 77d
makes sense they would be 'collaborating'
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 78d
Vanilla Ice fronted a metal band of the same name for a while in the aughts, I saw them once and they were decent
CodingCarpenter@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 78d
I mean did he perform the ninja rap?
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org · 3 pts · 77d
Seems quite fitting if you ask me.
Jerb322@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 77d
Milli Vanilli?! One of them is dead, though....
Airfried@piefed.social · 1 pts · 77d
Not all is bad. At least the Washington Monument has a new swimming pool!
metallic_substance@lemmy.world · 109 pts · 78d
My ex wife's mom was a kid rock megafan. She had kid rock tshirts in heavy rotation, had kid rock bumper stickers on her car, and went to concerts as often as possible. She even had limited edition, rhinestone encrusted kid rock shoes. She was one of the dumbest people I've ever encountered and a real piece of shit person.
Several years after divorcing my wife she still texts me asking for money (she's a dirtbag gambling addict) despite fact I've ghosted her. I will never block her, because getting those texts is a sweet reminder that I've escaped my shitty ex's shitty family. Fuck you Linda, you hateful garbagemonster
mech@feddit.org · 23 pts · 77d
I used to be a huge Kid Rock fan.
But in my defense, I knew nothing about him, I was 10 years old, I'm German, and I understood none of the lyrics.
(My biggest dream was one day being able to move to the US. Yeah, that changed, too.)
Raiderkev@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 77d
Yeah, I liked him when he came out, but I was literally 12. In my 20's I used to half ironically bust out Bawitaba when I was hanging with the boys as a throwback, and we used to half jokingly have it be our anthem. Then 2016 came and he started fondling Trump's balls daily. We haven't played it since.
Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 77d
I mean he said it in the song "Now get in the pit and try to love someone" - you can't get much deeper in the pit than Trump.
MostRegularPeople@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 76d
Devil Without a Cause was one of my favorite albums when I was in 8th grade. I made my mom listen to it in the car and I still feel kinda bad about it.
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 77d
I adore my wife but her family is awful, it’s a tough spot. They’re so toxic
DaniNatrix@leminal.space · 10 pts · 77d
This is so tough. My partner's mother is a vicious manipulator and abuser, still tries to put her hands on her grown children. I love him so much and want to do my best to support him but I can't have a relationship with her. She's not permitted at our house because every time we've tried, she starts a toddler tantrum over whatever comes to mind and gets violent.
I worry it weighs heavily on him and I wish I could stomach more interaction with her, I imagine it would make his life easier in some ways. But I've hit my max when it comes to abusive people. I'm a domestic abuse survivor and I simply don't have any more space for folks who behave that way.
rumba@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 77d
I'm on the other side of that equation, and while my father being a racist POS weighs a bit on me, inviting him over and dealing with that bullshit fallout would be 50x worse.
ya' doin' fine
Zahille7@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 78d
I just need to say that he should be called Grampa Rock now.
He looks rough
CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 78d
Looks like Grandpa Meth Rock now, I mean, he’s always looked like a Meth Head, but ya
LostCarcosan@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 77d
You don't have to insult meth rock like that. 7horse doesn't deserve that
...probably. Shit, I hate that I have to do background checks on weird artists now
CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 77d
Oh shit there’s something we need, a celebrity background check website! We can crowd source canceling everyone!
Jesus_666@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 78d
C'mon. He looks okay for someone in his mid-sixties.
Of course that would mean a lot more if he was in his mid-sixties.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 78d
Yeah, Fake News anyway cause ya boi still passed out and doesn’t know he got the boot.
Furbag@pawb.social · 28 pts · 77d
Imagine being 55 years old and still insisting people call you "Kid" Rock.
Blubber28@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 77d
Don't you know his name consists of the two things he loves most in life? Rock and kids.
Furbag@pawb.social · 1 pts · 77d
🤣
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 77d
or being known for only only song.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 77d
Was that the one about diddling kids or was that another one? I've never heard that or any other song from him tbh, I just remember that he apparently sang about how he likes kids
Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org · 5 pts · 77d
I would assume it's the one with the nonsense words they hired him to perform at the alternative half time show because the guy doing the real halftime show wasn't singing in proper English.
This one: https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/57/
You're thinking of this one: https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107858686749/
Nobody much paid attention to that one until recently, after all he hadn't been relevant at all for twenty years.
uberdroog@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 76d
He does not have soul like Al Green.
auzy1@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 77d
Pretty sure it's a brand name at this point. I can't imagine anyone listens to him for his music.
They basically just use it as a fashion accessory to make other guys think they're masculine
beejboytyson@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 76d
Huh, I think they're gay as shit. Seems to have the opposite effect.....
auzy1@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 76d
You mean the guys buying cars to impress other guys might be gay? That is a stretch
lemmylommy@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 78d
Milli Vanilli performing at a maga festival is just perfect. AFAIK the German guy is dead already, which leaves the French guy to lipsync to someone else’s singing. Or did they find someone else to complete the duo again? Maybe a Scotsman this time?
frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io · 21 pts · 78d
Sadly I think they also bowed out. I was looking forward to it being just Vanilla Ice and Milli Vanilli because that would match the current level of poorly-aged cringe in the US.
Jesus_666@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 78d
I think Milli Vanilli considering the gig beneath them is even more delicious.
aceshigh@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 77d
Ashley Simpson
Maeve@kbin.earth · -2 pts · 78d
The Commodore's and Morris Day (which if Purple Rain's depiction of him was accurate, is no surprise) are chef's kiss.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 78d
Wut.
ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 78d
According to this NYT article, Morris Day, Young MC, Martina McBride and the Commodores have all dropped out now, claiming to have been signed without understanding it was all a Trump thing, and the singer of the group currently using the Milli Vanilli name says they were not asked to perform at all. (No one's heard from the original Milli Vanilli guy, Fab Morvan.)
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 77d
Relieved about Young MC. I listened to his "Brainstorm" album over and over again as a kid.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 77d
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 23 pts · 77d
doing those wierd exercises in the SAUNA with RFK JR ISNT good enough?
PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 77d
Jesus I thought that was a bad dream
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 77d
We're all stuck in this bad dream together, friend.
homes@piefed.world · 18 pts · 78d
One would think that he is most embarrassed that he looks like that now
I’m 47, but I look almost identical to how I looked when I was in my mid 20s. (I realize that I am exceptionally lucky, but he’s extremely rich, and has access to plastic surgeons and such)
He looks like shit
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 78d
If you haven’t read this classic - read it now. It’s . . . well. Just read it.
homes@piefed.world · 10 pts · 78d
I didn’t realize it until I got into the second paragraph, but I read this when it was originally published.
It is exactly as upsetting as when I read it originally.
The Rolling Stone is an extraordinary publication.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 77d
Respect to the author for showing just how sad and pathetic Richie is
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 77d
It’s textbook alcoholism. Super simple.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 78d
It happens when you just kinda go with your addictions.
Drugs is a helluva drug.
IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com · -6 pts · 78d
Why do you care, and why do you think because people have money they would get plastic surgery?
Maybe he's actually comfortable with who he is and doesn't care to impress American twats.
Never thought I'd be defending the guy...
homes@piefed.world · 15 pts · 78d
If he was comfortable with who he was, he would not constantly keep trying to get the approval of others, especially the Titanic pile of shit called Donald Trump and his followers.
I care because he is an insidious tool of fascism. And that tool is being used to destroy what little is left of democracy in this nation.
The question is: why don’t you care?
Why are you? how could you?
Maeve@kbin.earth · 2 pts · 78d
Because good looks don't herald good character and bad looks don't herald bad character.
homes@piefed.world · 9 pts · 78d
Wise words
But how does that apply to Kid Rock?
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 10 pts · 78d
lmao
rofl even
The dude's entire life has been spent in the pursuit of impressing terrible people.
Agrivar@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 78d
So, when did you look in the mirror and just give up?
call_me_xale@lemmy.zip · 16 pts · 78d
lol. lmao even.
rosco385@lemmy.wtf · 15 pts · 77d
Kid Rock is just Mike Lindell in a cowboy hat.
Widdershins@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 76d
kid rock is just some guy whose real name is Robert Ritchie who grew up in a wealthy suburb of Detroit
modus@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 76d
I've never seen them in the same room together.
DioramaOfShit@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 77d
Funny thing is I would have never listened to kid rock except my mom bought me one of his cds when I was like 12 because she thought it was rock music for kids.
Doomsider@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 77d
It was rock music for kids, Kid Rock even has a song about it.
Young ladies, young ladies, I like ‘em underage,” Rock sings on the track. “See some say that’s statutory.” His sidekick at the time, the late Joe-C then chimes in, “But I say it’s mandatory.”
hateisreality@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 78d
I'm not sure he's hot enough dignity to be humiliated
PhAzE@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 77d
Oh, I thought he was humiliated just because he was kid rock.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 78d
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 76d
I find this a bit hard to believe. Is Kid Rock aware enough to feel humiliation?
MehBlah@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 78d
That dude aged twenty years for every ten since two thousand.
SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 78d
At this rate, the headliner will be one of Iskanka's kids hooting out "Hot Cross Buns" on an out-of-tune clarinet.
Maeve@kbin.earth · 7 pts · 78d
These are a few who are white Supremacists/adjacent and who worship Mammon.
db2@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 78d
Milli Vanilli and Morris Day have said they don't know what the fuck Trump is taking about and they're not playing for him.
Edit: I was misinformed, Morris Day was scheduled and quit. Milli Vanilli is accurate though.
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 78d
C+C music factory and young MC have also dropped out/said they didn't know.
db2@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 78d
The Commodores have quit as well now.
Edit: and Martina McBride, even country music doesn't want that shit 🤣
Edit: and now Bret Michaels too 🤣🤣🤣
Maeve@kbin.earth · 2 pts · 78d
Maybe they did and retought it for reasons. And maybe the festival organizers are lying. Hard to say.
db2@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 78d
They said, so not really hard. Young MC has quit the show for instance, was scheduled to perform but told them to get fucked instead.
nocturne@slrpnk.net · 11 pts · 78d
Jay & Silent Bob would be so disappointed.
ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 78d
Holy shit, he's snubbed while Milli Vanillin are included? That one's got to sting like a mf.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 78d
There are many people in that line-up I did not expect to be white supremacists. Wasn't Morris Day friends with Prince and Arsenio?
ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 78d
The comment you responded to is a load of shite. I rebutted in another comment. It's a ridiculously false assertion.
Maeve@kbin.earth · -4 pts · 78d
See my next comment itt.
ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 78d
Except for Flo Rida,
Bret Michaels,and Vanilla Ice (known Trumpers), your list of "white supremacists" is complete horseshit.Almost all of the names you listed have dropped out now, claiming that they did not know when they signed that it was for Trump's concert.
Also, it is laughable to even suggest that the Commodores, Young MC, or Morris Day and The Time are "white supremacists" in any way. These three acts all have a certain special something in common. Can you guess what that is?
EDITED TO ADD: Bret Michaels has now also dropped out as well, leaving only Flo Rida, Vanilla Ice, and possibly C+C Music Factory who are now "apparently weighing whether to perform," according to the updated article I linked above.
Maeve@kbin.earth · -4 pts · 78d
The save thing Kanye West has in common.
Edit: apparently people think Kanye is an anomaly. Enrique Terri, Nick Fuentes, Clarence Thomas, Candace Owens, just because people have color doesn't make them not supremacists, any less than Nikki Haley, Usha Vance, Kristi Noem, Pam Bondi are male supremacists.
ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 77d
Kanye West is representative solely of Kanye West, and that's only on his better days.
So if you have ANY evidence, no matter how sketchy the link, of these non-Trump-linked specific acts that you named and/or their individual members' participation in and/or adjacency to "white supremacy" aside from their already cancelled appearance at Trump's concert, I invite you to bring it forward, because it is literally fictitious.
Your assertion is ludicrous to the point of being actively offensive. Naming proudly Black people and acts who have already disavowed any intention of supporting Trump, not to mention "white supremacy," is a slap to them and to their good names. It's a truly shitty thing to say.
Bo7a@piefed.ca · 2 pts · 77d
Why is it when I see a completely fabricated insane take it is so frequently you? Grow up already.
JackiesFridge@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 78d
Headline could’ve stopped on word 3 and been evergreen.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 78d
lol
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 77d
Instead he'll just stay home shooting beers.
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 77d
I'll never get over the conservative boycott over Bud Light by... checks notes.. buying a shit ton of Bud Light and shooting it.
What a smart thought process. I'm going to spend money on the thing I don't want to spend money on and just blow it up instead of just... Not buying it.
WhyDoYouThinkThat@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 77d
Insthed he'l jusht shtay hoem shootin' bears
lechekaflan@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 76d
"...FUCK OFF!" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one · 2 pts · 77d
Now this is a delicious LAMF moment.
Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 77d
Is Milli Vanilli going to do his famous lip syncing impression?