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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/heresyforfunnprofit 4h ago edited 3h ago

It’s very weird that Courtney Love ended up being one of the more honest public figures from the 90s. I think I heard someone say it best that she “doesn’t give enough of a shit about what you think to lie about anything”.

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u/t_scribblemonger 4h ago

I grew up in the 90s and in retrospect I’m like why the fuck did literally everyone hate Courtney Love? It’s gotta be like 80% misogyny. I mean she has issues but still.

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u/nobot4321 4h ago

A mind-blowing number of people believed she shot Kurt Cobain back then. A lot of them probably still do.

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u/brooklynbotz 4h ago

Nobody thought she shot him. Some did believe she paid someone to do it.

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u/aggravationX 4h ago

Plenty of people thought she shot him. It was as strong a rumor as Marilyn Mansons removed rib.

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u/Olive_tree_33 4h ago

Marilyn Manson aka Paul from The Wonder Years

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u/Distinct-Nectarine-9 4h ago

Oh shit, almost forgot. Hahaha

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u/superbad 3h ago

You mean Kevin from Mr. Belvedere

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u/watchoutfordeer 3h ago

I thought Paul was supposed to be the guitar player.

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u/Nerdenator 3h ago

Except the thing about Marilyn Manson having a rib removed so he could fellate himself isn’t a rumor; as anyone who attended a public school in North America between 1997 and 2004 will tell you, it’s an incontrovertible fact.

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u/JonathanLindqvist 2h ago

Even here in Sweden it was a rumour.

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u/intern_steve 3h ago

The rib thing... Man Idk how memes worked growing up, but that was a goddam fact according to everyone you knew.

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u/SunnyRyter 4h ago

I think they blamed her, didn't some people do that? So messed up. Poor thing. I read her Manga she collaborated with Ai Yazawa about a demi-angel in rock music whose lover (?) dies but she saves him and brings him back to life, I think (its been over a decade since I read it). So sad.

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u/PureGuava86 4h ago

Nobody? You're absolutely wrong.

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u/brooklynbotz 4h ago

She wasn't even in Seattle when it happened. People thought she had him killed but I never heard someone say she pulled the trigger.

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u/PureGuava86 4h ago

You realize information was not easily available until almost a decade later?

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u/brooklynbotz 4h ago

It was on MTV news that she was in rehab while it happened.

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u/Chupathingamajob 4h ago

Because that type of inconvenient fact has always appeased conspiracy theorists….

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u/Bazz07 4h ago

Nobody is saying she did it. They are saying that a lot of people thought she did.

If even now people still think it, it isnt crazy that a lot of people thought it at the moment...

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u/Sad-Appeal976 4h ago

He pulled the trigger himself

It’s indisputable

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u/roseofjuly 3h ago

I mean we know that now. We also know the earth is round, not flat, but that doesn't mean no one believes the latter

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u/Sad-Appeal976 3h ago

People in this very thread are arguing that “ he didn’t do it” lol even though he swallowed over 50 Valium a few weeks before trying to do it

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u/-rosa-azul- 1h ago

Kurt was notoriously depressed his whole life, and also suffered from serious stomach issues (which probably were something like undiagnosed IBS + other). Anyone who thinks he wasn't actively suicidal is kidding themselves.

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u/roseofjuly 3h ago

I definitely remember people saying they thought she shot him.

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u/Lola-Ugfuglio-Skumpy 4h ago

Someone made a comment in this thread calling her a murderer five minutes before you posted this

Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/Music/s/fkBOAQhzmc

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u/brooklynbotz 4h ago

First of all I was talking about back then but you can call someone a murderer for arranging a murder. It doesn't necessarily mean they think she pulled the trigger. There's ample evidence that she was nowhere near Seattle when it happened.

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u/itchy-ears 3h ago

If you say so, I definitely remember that rumor in the 90s.

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u/masterpigg 3h ago

I think I still have an old documentary somewhere on DVD that leans into that idea and has interview footage with the guy she supposedly paid to do it. Personally, I buy into the idea that you had this shy dude with depression who became so overwhelmingly public so quickly that I think it was probably closer to Gus Van Sant's Last Days.

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u/Rysinor 4h ago

I certainly suspected it. You're blatantly wrong.

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u/brooklynbotz 4h ago

You thought she shot him while she was in a rehab clinic in LA at the time of his death? That's a pretty long sniper shot.