After Kid Rock scored a headlining gig at Turning Point USA’s alternative 2026 Super Bowl halftime show, his 2001 song “Cool, Daddy Cool” resurfaced — and is raising a whole new set of eyebrows.
“Wonder if Kid Rock will sing ‘Cool Daddy Cool?’” one social media user tweeted on Wednesday, February 4. “Will Kid Rock be singing his song ‘Cool, Daddy Cool’ that contains these lyrics: ‘Young ladies, young ladies, I like ‘em underage,’ ‘See some say that’s statutory.’ ‘But I say it’s mandatory.’”
Rock, 55, released “Cool, Daddy Cool” in 2001.
“On my cell phone I’m paid, G, can’t call me, just page me,” he sings. “Young ladies, young ladies, I like ’em underage, see . Some say that’s statutory / But I say it’s mandatory / My story ain’t that complex, two forties and a Rolex.”
Turning Point USA, the right-wing conservative organization founded by the late Charlie Kirk, announced earlier this week that Rock was among the headliners of the organization’s so-called alternate Super Bowl 60 halftime show meant to “celebrate faith, family and freedom.” (Bad Bunny, who hails from American territory Puerto Rico, will perform at the actual Super Bowl LX on Sunday, February 8.)
“We plan to play great songs for folks who love America,” Rock said in a Monday, February 2, statement. “We’re approaching this show like David and Goliath. Competing with the pro football machine and a global pop superstar is almost impossible … or is it?”
Rock further took aim at Bad Bunny, 33, and his set.
“He’s said he’s having a dance party, wearing a dress and singing in Spanish?” Rock concluded in his statement. “Cool. We plan to play great songs for folks who love America.”
The Turning Point show has since sparked backlash, from individuals who believe the event’s so-called Christian ethos contradicts some of Rock’s songs, including “Cool, Daddy Cool.”
“Y’all are disgusting,” one social media user tweeted, with another adding, “Gotta love his lyrics for Cool Daddy. Right on brand for the GOP [party].”
While Rock has not addressed the resurfaced backlash to “Cool, Daddy Cool,” Turning Point execs are defending the upcoming show.
“It’s powerful because what Charlie always loved and knew is that he wanted to be in the forefront of the culture war,” Charlie Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk (née Franztve), told Fox News on Wednesday. “He would be fist-pumping at this. He would be so stoked. And what better way to honor him than to just get in the middle of this and be able to offer an alternative to families.”
Erika, 37, took over as CEO of Turning Point USA after Charlie was shot and killed in 2025 during a speaking engagement in Utah. Charlie, who was 31 at the time of his assassination, is survived by Erika and the pair’s two children.
“[Our programs are] holistic, it’s for the entire home,” Erika told the outlet of the upcoming alternative concert. “It’s of every age, and so for us to be able to provide an alternative that is pro-America, that is just pro-everything, that’s not the opposite of what they’re putting out there — I don’t want to go into details and bash that because there is apparently an audience that wants that, but there’s a larger audience that wants ours.”
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