Maturity, thy name is not MAGA. There are some people who theorize that performers are performers because they are empty inside. I think that as a generalization that’s false. Some of the best performers are truly humble people who consider it a privilege and a blessing that their work is so venerated. Two people that leap to mind that fit that description are David Bowie and Johnny Mathis. They love(d) their audiences and the audiences know it. Then we have Kid Rock. Is he grateful for an audience? Wellllll, we don’t know the overall answer to that, if there is one, but he’s assuredly not grateful for this Nashville audience. Evidently he thought that if he did Tina Turner’s signature song that he would get her reaction. Which he might if he did it as well. Or even half as well. Which was not the case here. In fact, this is the deadest version of Proud Mary in existence.
Kid Rock had a meltdown on stage in Nashville on Saturday night after the audience didn't clap enough and he stormed off stage.
What a total loser. pic.twitter.com/piOIQApnTt
— Art Candee 🍿🥤 (@ArtCandee) February 10, 2025
That is pretty amateurish. As any real trooper of the stage will tell you, you perform for the audience that’s there. Some audiences are tougher than others to reach. Some are bigger. But you give it your all. Every night needs to be as fresh and enthusiastic as opening night.
But not for Kid Rock. If he can’t have the adoration reserved for Mick Jagger or The Beatles at the very height of their fame and frenzy, then he doesn’t want any of it. Fine. Methinks that the audiences will find somebody else and forget that Kid Rock even exists. Or, maybe that’s already taken place and it’s that realization which drives him so nuts.
What’s Kid Rock to do without?
- Bud Lite cases to take a machine gun to?
- Trump inaugurations?
- Kevin Sorbo movies?
- MAGA festivals?
- Trump sneakers, Bibles, NFT’s, you name it?
One phenomenon that we have seen in connection with Trump’s politics is the resurgence of Hollywood and music types who have been dormant for quite some number of years. They all swarmed to life when Trump came on the political scene, all grasping for relevance either gone by or relevance that never was. Trump had giant coattails which everybody in right-wingnuttia was dying to grab hold of and ride all the way to Washington, Hollywood, whatever the case might be.
Now Trump is in his last act, Act IV, and people like Kid Rock have gotten what they’ve gotten from standing in his corpulent shadow. And in Rock’s case, apparently it’s not enough. Oh, well. Maybe hang on and see if J.D. Vance can draw bigger crowds? (Pro tip: Don’t hold your breath.)
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I just had a thought so awful I might need to buy an icepick to shove into my ears to become deaf – Lara Trump teaming up with Kid Rock. For next years Super Bowl halftime show! Of course it will be renamed the Trump bowl by then. And all the players and coaches will be white. Of course as I wrote this morning I never watch those shows but even the possibility of hearing a few bars of them trying to sing together might pop up in some post game coverage!
The supremely untalented Kid should stick to his house-band gig at Mar-a-Lardo. Those fatcat dickheads don’t care if he’s awful, they’ll applaud on cue for him and even for the appalling Vanilla Ice.