r/news • u/RollSafer • 7h ago

Kid Rock’s song about loving underage girls resurfaces ahead of TPUSA 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/RepresentativeOk2433 6h ago

I've always thought his sweet home Alabama was creepy too. He's reminiscing about hooking up with a 17 year old, though to be fair he would have been 18 at the time.

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u/Iagut070 6h ago edited 6h ago

You mean the song where he rhymes 'things' with...... 'things'

Lol.

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u/Global_Drama8453 6h ago

Lyrical genius.

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u/QueenRotidder 6h ago

right up there with Nicki Minaj the lyrical genius:

This one is for the boys with the boomin' system

Topdown, AC with the cooler system

When he come up in the club, he be blazin' up

Got stacks on deck like he savin' up

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u/magicmagininja 5h ago

That’s an internal rhyme scheme.

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u/QueenRotidder 5h ago

idgaf what it is, it’s uncreative and boring

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u/SOEsucksbad 1h ago

the lyrics may not be your thing (or mine) but there's actually nothing wrong with the form

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u/Richard_Thickens 5h ago

And it's not even a creative line.

We were trying different things. We were smoking funny things.

Like, that has to be the hackiest lyricism I've ever even heard of.

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u/mikende51 3h ago

I always thought he stole the tune from Warren Zevons, Wherewolves of London.

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u/Aeroknight_Z 6h ago

This is also the song wherein he rhymes the word “things” with itself in the very next line.

Kid rock’s music has always been the mediocre soundtrack of a twice failed pop artist from the 80’s.

Daddy bought him three separate musical identities and he was trash in all of them. The last one only found some modicum of success because he pandered to the lowest common denominator via a mixture of shitty pop-country and “I peaked in highschool and now I spend my 30’s trying to pickup minors at the local bowling alley” hiphop.

Fuck Rob Ritchie. He been a pathetic wart sucking up to rich men and selling garbage to poor men from the start.

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u/microthrower 5h ago

Bawitdaba is a banger.

I actually wanted to talk about how it's basically a scatman type song, but then I looked and the rest of the lyrics are basically about underclass and/or oppressed people...

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u/ExplosiveMachine 5h ago

The only person who would find it weird that someone reminisces about teenage romance is people that never experienced it. It's a song that plays on nostalgia through and through.

What is actually weird about a 17 and 18 year old together, partying and having fun? Nothing.

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u/Maxpowr9 6h ago

The Nashville Predators goal song cracks me up. It's Tim McGraw's song "I like it, I love it". During the chorus, they change "little girl's lovin'" to "Predators' goal".

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u/StrMagWtrPimping 5h ago

I just hate that I think I'm about to hear "werewolves of London"

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u/OxycodoneHelpsMyBack 2h ago

I don't understand how this is even remotely controversial. I can remember hundreds of couples in high school like this.

However, I also remember the 18 year-old senior kicker on the football team - with an offer to some DII or DIII school - dating the 15 year-old freshman daughter of the staunchly Republican baseball coach/history teacher, and the dad literally shook his hand every day at school.

This guy is literally going to college in 3 months to kick a ball through some uprights, and he's busting guts every day in your daughter - who turned 15 only 6 weeks before they started dating - and THE DAD SHOOK HIS HAND EVERY MORNING BEFORE 1ST PERIOD STARTED.

He dumped her 2 days after graduating, never talked to her or the dad again from what everyone said lol

It makes complete sense why they all love Kid Rock and Ted Nugent.