Country singer Brantley Gilbert has taken to social media to defend the controversial alternative halftime show being put on Sunday by Turning Point USA, insisting “I’m not playing this show to be divisive” and that diverting viewers from Bad Bunny’s actual Super Bowl performance fits in with his belief that “we stand united” in America.
His statement on X, Instagram and Threads also says that one reason for doing an alternative to the real Super Bowl halftime is that country artists have been all but shut out of it.
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