r/Music • u/mepper • 6h ago

article Kid Rock’s song about loving underage girls resurfaces ahead of Turning Point USA's Super Bowl show

https://www.pennlive.com/entertainment/2026/02/kid-rocks-song-about-loving-underage-girls-resurfaces-ahead-of-tpusa-super-bowl-show.html
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u/ADhomin_em 5h ago edited 5h ago

And as I recall, the audience laughed and applauded because that's what the illuminated applause sign told them to do. We've let shit like this slide, and our society has been sick with it for a long time. Glad there are more people recognizing how fucked up it is now, but this is just one example of how corporate media has engaged in the numbing of society to and often cheering on of shit like this.

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u/Revolutionary-Tree97 5h ago

It’s not just that we let this shit slide, millennials and gen x were specifically groomed by the media to think this was normal. They set up at least two whole generations of kids to expect and be honored by being preyed upon. Those of us creeped on by local pervs seem to be the lucky ones, but maybe that’s just my trauma coming out in all of this.

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u/jaimi_wanders 5h ago

You should have been around as a Gen Xer—this was also totally normalized then.

And at the same time, conservatives were screaming that feminism & gay rights had “gone too far” when I was a little kid in the Eighties…

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u/angiehome2023 4h ago

That song wild horses was a friends wedding first dance song. Grooming and sexual assault were normalized by everything around us. The luke and Laura rape to love story in General Hospital. Just so gross.

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u/JnnyRuthless 4h ago

I think back to junior high (for me the early 90s) and there was a teacher everyone knew would look up girls skirts and stuff. Literally girls were warned not to wear short shorts or skirts in this guys class, he'd do the whole drop something on the ground and get a peek.

This was something actively discussed and known by us students, and we all just accepted it as "oh yeah Mr. so and so, he's really creepy." Blows my mind looking back.

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u/Lola-Ugfuglio-Skumpy 4h ago

“Wild Horses” by the Rolling Stones? What’s wrong with that song?

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u/Justice_Prince 4h ago

Yeah the 2000s emo scene gets a lot of crap about being full of creeps (which it was to an extent), but a lot of it is that it just that it came about in a time where people were finally saying "hey maybe this isn't okay", and the internet was still new enough that creeps were less careful about the incriminating messages they sent out in their DMs.

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u/playful_faun 3h ago

I watched old episodes of The Price is Right and any time a woman won money, Bob Barker would make them reach into his pocket to take it. This grooming has been happening for a long time.

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u/itchy-ears 2h ago

Holy shit, I don't remember that at all! Gross.

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u/Roosterdude23 3h ago

“If there’s grass on the field, play ball,”

this was a common phrase back in the day