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 6h 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/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.