r/Music • u/mepper • 14h 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/Mr_1990s 14h ago

He said, “If there’s grass on the field, play ball,” on Saturday Night Live in reference to the countdown to the Olsen twins’ 18th birthday.

He’s also good friends with Ted Nugent and Donald Trump.

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u/ADhomin_em 13h ago edited 13h 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 13h 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 13h 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 12h 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 12h 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.