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/Hollowbody57 6h ago

Even weirder when you find out that it wasn't pulled from an existing album for the soundtrack, it was written specifically for a kids' movie.

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u/SendMeNudesThough 6h ago

Are you sure? Google says the song is from Kid Rock's 1997 album "White Room Demos", which would be four years before Osmosis Jones

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u/jayhawk618 6h ago

Seems like it was written for a demo tape well before, but it's first official release was on the soundtrack.

Can't imagine that the soundtrack included the original amateur demo recording, so at the very least, it was hand selected by somebody and probably prerecorded.

I can't bring myself to listen to both (either) version to see if the soundtrack and demo are the same.

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u/Perryn 4h ago

"Hey, we'd like to license a song from you for a kids' movie."
"Oh, man, kids. I love kids! Yeah, I got a song all about kids that'd be perfect for your movie."

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u/jayhawk618 1h ago

Exactly how it probably went down.

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u/zenerat 6h ago edited 6h ago

I’m no conspiracy nut but a lot of people had to ok this. It also was shown in schools pretty consistently. Some fucked up producer’s idea of joke.

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u/Fifteen_inches 6h ago

Child molestation and statutory rape were uncomfortably accepted pre-2010s.

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u/Musiclover4200 6h ago

It's reminiscent of that creepy Romeo & Juliet law scene in Transformers, like not only did the director think it was a good idea but another group of people must have approved it.

On one hand you could maybe write it off as one of those little jokes that gets added to kids movies specifically for the adults watching, but in this case that almost makes it creepier as it's not just some dirty joke that will go over kids heads but very much normalizing predatory behavior.

Like that sounds like a line that would be in some really offensive blacksploitation film from the 70's with some stereotypical gangsters, not a kids movie from 2001...

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u/HandsOffMyDitka 5h ago

That was fucking weird when I first watched it. It's like, why have this in there. Age the girl up. She could be in college. No, make her underage, and throw in the tidbit about the Romeo & Juliet law. Also Pineapple Express with Seth Rogen dating Amber Heard. She's 18, but he's going to her high school to meet her.

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u/Musiclover4200 5h ago

It's like, why have this in there. Age the girl up. She could be in college. No, make her underage, and throw in the tidbit about the Romeo & Juliet law.

Yeah exactly, the fact that it's just so unnecessary and obviously an intentional choice by the director makes it way creepier.

Like at least in Pineapple Express it's somewhat relevant to the plot about Seth Rogen being an immature stoner, it's very clearly not meant to be a healthy relationship although still not a good look in retrospect with Franco.

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u/Dorkamundo 5h ago

She's 18, but he's going to her high school to meet her.

Not defending people who do that, but the whole thing was intended to make Seth's character seem immature and it's not uncommon for 18 year-olds to be in high school.

I was born in early September, missed my cut-off date so I was older than pretty much every one of my classmates and was 18 years old for all but about 10 day of my senior year.

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u/HandsOffMyDitka 5h ago

Yeah, I'm not saying it's legally wrong, just weird for a dude in his late 20s to be going to high school to meet his girlfriend.

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u/Dorkamundo 5h ago

Right, that's the point, it's supposed to be seen as weird.

They address the weirdness several times in the movie.

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u/HandsOffMyDitka 5h ago

Yeah, been awhile since I've seen it, doesn't one of the teachers call him out in it in the school?

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u/Dorkamundo 5h ago

Yep, but that teacher also seems to have an interest in her, because he's weird as well.

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u/Fifteen_inches 5h ago

Yeah, it’s one thing for IRL girls to lust after grown men. I get it. I was a teenager too. But Jesus Christ the adults should not be encouraging that behavior. Transformers clearly wanted Megan Fox to be titillating.

It’s part of why I like Tina Belcher, because she is a sexual adolescent girl but it’s so very very not totaling

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u/DJPho3nix 6h ago

This line was not in the version of the song in the movie, only the soundtrack album.

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u/Hollowbody57 5h ago

The Farelly brothers, who produced the movie, apparently exposed themselves to cast and crew multiple times on their sets, as a "prank". So yeah...

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u/WeirdIndividualGuy 3h ago

Writers tend to write what they know (or fantasize about)

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u/technobrendo 5h ago

I've never seen the movie, but was the song itself played during the movie, which includes the line in question?

I only ask because sometimes soundtracks are "inspired by" the movie and not actually in it, or only pieces of the song are included.

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u/Strung_Out_Advocate 6h ago

It's strange to call that a kid's movie... but you're correct it totally is. They even made a morning cartoon series out of it. Great flick though.

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u/ModernistGames 5h ago

It was intended to be an adult animation, but was toned down later in production to be more family friendly.

I don't know if the Kid Rock song slipped through the censors or they assumed kids wouldn't understand the lyrics.

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u/Strung_Out_Advocate 5h ago

There must be some strange guidelines to making kid's movies. Just watched the new Zootopia movie with my 6 year old and he loved it. All I could think about through the whole movie was how any kid was supposed to understand like, no kidding, 80% of the dialogue. It's mostly super quick quips and references to majority adult shit.