MAGA’s reply to Unhealthy Bunny, Child Rock, received’t be hitting the stage in South Carolina, of all locations, after his music competition was canceled.
Child Rock’s “Rock the Nation” music competition won’t be going down in Anderson County, South Carolina, after officers there confirmed to The Submit & Courier that the two-day live performance deliberate for July 25–26, 2026, on the Anderson Sports activities and Leisure Heart is now canceled.
County administrator Rusty Burns instructed the native information outlet that officers have been notified the night time of February 5 that the competition was not taking place, however they didn’t obtain a transparent cause for its cancellation.
“We weren’t instructed a cause,” Burns stated. “It occurs within the enterprise. We had a great, two-year run.”
Music Acts Are Pulling Out of The Rock The Nation Pageant
Whereas they weren’t given a cause, it could possibly be as a result of mass exit of music acts related to the competition.
On February 6, Shinedown introduced to its followers that it could not be part of the competition as a consequence of considerations about division related to the occasion.
“SHINEDOWN is everybody’s band,” the group wrote in an announcement shared on X. “Our band’s objective is to unite, not divide. We don’t need to take part in one thing we imagine will create additional division.”
Shinedown bowing out got here after a number of different artists stated nah to the competition, together with Morgan Wade, Carter Religion, and Ludacris, after going through intense backlash as a consequence of their participation.
Reps for Ludcris declare his involvement was “a mix-up.”
“Traces received crossed, and he wasn’t imagined to be on there,” Ludacris’ rep instructed Rolling Stone.
Child Rock, Nelly, Jason Aldean, Blake Shelton, Jelly Roll, and Brooks & Dunn are nonetheless on the invoice, no shock there.
Creed was additionally part of the competition at one level, and was even featured as an act on the now-canceled Anderson date, however their identify has since been faraway from the lineup.
The “Rock The Nation” tour launched by Rock is billed as an eight-date summer time sequence. Whereas the Anderson date is formally scrubbed, Ocala, Florida; Sioux Falls, South Dakota; and Hamburg, New York are nonetheless taking place… for now.
If Child Rock can’t even entertain Anderson, South Carolina, how on this planet do MAGA snowflakes suppose he’s going to compete with Unhealthy Bunny, who’s the most-streamed artist in the whole world?
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