Friday, February 06, 2026 |
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It's Super Bowl weekend once again, but the biggest fight isn't between the Seahawks and the Patriots. It's between MAGA and Bad Bunny. Last October, the NFL announced the Grammy winner as this year's halftime performer. The artist is excluding any U.S. stops on his world tour due to potential ICE raids on his audience, which drew the furor of the conservative right. So, Turning Point USA have set up a counter production of their own with Kid Rock as the headliner. Read below for a breakdown on how and why the halftime show is such a big deal this year—and to remind yourself that wasn't always the case. – Eric Francisco, associate entertainment editor |
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The conservative Right's answer to Bad Bunny is—wait for it—Kid Rock. |
So, it's real. Months after the October 2025 announcement/threat, Turning Point USA has, for real, scheduled counterprogramming for halftime at the Super Bowl. The unambiguously named All-American Halftime Show will take place February 8 as a virtual event to live stream across Turning Point's socials and platforms like DailyWire+. The show will have Kid Rock as its headliner, with country acts Brantley Gilbert, Lee Brice, and Gabby Barrett scheduled to join. All of it, because the NFL had the gall to hire Bad Bunny. Congratulations if you're excited. I'm serious! May we all be so lucky as to get what we want if we yell about it loud enough. Maybe turning off the TV didn't feel enough and you needed this to fill a black void in your heart. It's just funny too, because Super Bowl halftime wasn't always a big deal. This year the stage is set for Bad Bunny, a Latin trap phenom behind Grammy-winning albums replete with Puerto Rican identity and anti-colonialist themes. On his world tour, Bad Bunny has excluded the U.S. as a symbolic act against the Trump regime and reasonable fears of ICE thugs targeting his audience. That Bad Bunny had the gall to be a Spanish-speaking artist whose music defies American propaganda pisses off exactly the folks you'd expect to be pissed. |
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This winter, men's fragrances are woodier and weightier. Across the major houses, the theme is concentration and intensity: parfums and elixirs built around sandalwood, vetiver, and amber-rich accords, rounded with spice, resin, and smoke. The common mood is one of density and permanence, fragrances made to linger in cold air and settle into heavier fabrics. Many arrive as darker reinterpretations of familiar icons, taking bestsellers into deeper, more sophisticated territory. Others are entirely new compositions but still grounded in the same warm, spicy structure. Together, they chart a season defined less by freshness and sparkle than by depth and presence—a winter mood where woods and ambers take the lead. |
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The first rule I tested was simple: no takers. Social psychologist Adam Grant has written that a minority of people in any system consistently try to extract more than they contribute. In business, they erode teams. In intimate spaces, they corrode trust. I tried something that felt radical at the time: I screened the takers out. And when that didn't work, I removed them. The effect was dramatic. Without that low-level threat in the room, people softened. They slowed down. They became more present. What surprised me was how little enforcement was required once the tone was set. From there, I started questioning everything else we assumed made a "good" erotic space. That experiment became what is now Top Floor Club. For the first five years, from 2011 onward, it was entirely secret. We operated out of the same New York hotel, quietly taking over the top two floors. Penthouse suites with floor-to-ceiling windows. Balconies overlooking the city. The hotel knew what we were doing. They trusted us. We trusted them. That mattered more than I realized at the time. |
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