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Kid Rock is going on tour, but he’ll be selective about where plays.
For his “Bad Reputation” tour, he confirmed that he will not be performing at venues that require COVID-19 masks or vaccination.
“There’s been a lot of talk about vaccine mandates and venues,” the rocker said. “People saying, ‘I’m not going to that venue because of the vaccine mandate’ and this, that and the other.’
“Trust me, we’ve done all our research on this and the consensus says that all this is going to be done, if there are any at these venues, I’m not aware of any, but if there are any, they’re going to be gone by the time we get to your city,” he continued.
“If they’re not, trust me, you don’t have to worry. You’ll be getting your money back because I won’t be showing up either,” Kid Rock said.
“It’s actually kind of unfortunate. We actually scratched Buffalo, New York off the list because of that and Toronto, Canada and several other cities we were looking at. I don’t want to deal with that s–t either,” he continued.
Kid Rock recently released a politically charged new single called “We The People.” He openly mocks Joe Biden and Dr. Anthony Fauci in the song.
“I’m unf***ing cancellable. Suck on that,” Kid Rock said in a message to his “haters.”
He also attacks CNN, Facebook, Twitter, and the mainstream media. The lyrics begin, “Wear your mask, take your pills. Now a whole generation is mentally ill.”
He also supports Trump in the song, referring to him as “Big Don.” The song also plays the chant “Let’s go, Brandon.”
“But COVID’s near, it’s coming to town, we gotta act quick, shut our borders down. Joe Biden does, the media embraces, Big Don does it and they call him racist.”
The song is part of Kid Rock’s effort to promote his upcoming Bad Reputation Tour.
Warning: The song contains vulgar language that may not be appropriate for all readers.
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The chorus of the more than four-minute song is simply a chant of the phrase “Let’s go Brandon” a not-so-secret code that has come to stand in for “F—Joe Biden” among his critics on the right.
In a Facebook video announcing the new tracks, Kid Rock described “We The People” as a “hard rock-rap tune.”
“[It’s] about, well, all the craziness going on in our world in the last few years and the politics and the polarization and social justice,” he said. “You know, constantly for just being a Trump fan attacked in the media day in day out.”
However, he notes that the song concludes on a message of unity, which he hopes to steer his creative work back toward after years of the country being marked by political division.
The other two songs that Kid Rock released Tuesday morning include “Last Dance,” which he describes as a song that is inspired by his parents’ more than 50-year marriage. The other is called “Rockin,” which he says is a country ballad with some R&B elements to it. According to the Detroit News, the song name-checks artists like Bob Seger and Marvin Gaye.
The track comes just months after the November release of the song “Don’t Tell Me How to Live,” which also took aim at the current political climate and included the 50-year-old musician’s thoughts on his critics and “snowflakes.”
