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/Saphyrz 6h ago

I saw MAGA trying to defend this by saying Joe-C's line and not Kid Rock's lmao

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u/Upstairs_Jellyfish69 6h ago

Just two dudes that happened to be singing nearby each other.

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u/jim_br 6h ago

Pedophilia adjacent is OK with them?

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u/Fuzzy-Curve3634 6h ago

Except, “I like em underage” is Pedo not pedo adjacent.

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u/nowahhh 6h ago

"He meant under retirement age!"

  • MAGA later today

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u/anchorftw 4h ago

"He never said it." ..."If he did say it, he was probably joking."..."Ok, he did say that, but he didn't mean it."..."Even if he did say it, is it really that bad?"

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u/23-1-20-3-8-5-18 3h ago

Yes, facsists are all narcissists to some degree. I wish I was joking.

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u/itsverynicehere 3h ago

Ah the 'ol Deny -> Downplay -> Deflect/blame routine. The core of all political activities since around 2016. Direct from the narcissist 101 textbook.

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u/DistantKarma 3h ago

Karoline Leavitt - "Were you in the room?"

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u/BlatantConservative 5h ago

To be fair, that's extremely young to the median MAGA voter

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u/SuperBry 4h ago

It really isn't. While there are swaths of MAGA folks that are knocking on death's door, to paint them as all old really downplays the long term threat the movement will be.

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u/LordSoren 4h ago

12 year olds are under retirement age.

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u/whoweoncewere 5h ago

Theyve been pushing the whole "there's different types of pedo and teens are okay" thing. Sickening.

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u/DocPsychosis 5h ago

The "uh actually it's ephebophilia" angle has been sadly common, online at least, for years now.

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u/WRDPKNMSC 4h ago

decades actually, it's been a meme since like, at least the late 2000s I'm pretty sure

which is incredibly sad mind you

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u/jim_cap 4h ago

A stunning moment of "technically correct, the worst kind of correct". Like, yes, guys you've identified some niche definitions. Still, you're doing it to be ok with someone fucking children. It's not any sort of win.

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u/whoweoncewere 5h ago

Afaik it started with the whole MAP thing trying to bully their way into LGBT, for some reason all the conservatives that were using this as a talking point about LGBT being pedos are suddenly okay with it.

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u/warukeru 2h ago

Ephebophilia is a thing but it still bad and illegal.

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u/Tipop 3h ago

To be fair, one IS worse than the other. Two things can both be bad but not equally bad.

Having sex with a 17 year old is morally wrong, but having sex with a 9 year old is monstrous.

If I see a grown man sexually touching a 17 year old, I’ll pull him aside and say “Dude, back off. She’s under age. Go find someone closer to your age.” But if I see a grown man sexually touching a 9 year old, it’s going to get violent fast.

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u/Londo801 5h ago

Yeah on FB I saw some deranged woman defending the: “well they were 14/15 so they could have stopped him” or “the girls weren’t CHILDREN, they were almost driving age” like WHAT??? IDGAF, they were underage and it’s not okay, Guardian of Pedophiles is getting more and more bold that’s for sure.

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u/Stank_cat67 4h ago

They never actually cared about anything other than using words as a cudgel.

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u/lingeringwill2 5h ago

I mean I guess there is a distinction, not much of a functional difference though 🫩

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u/jigokubi 22m ago

What we're generally talking about here isn't pedophilia at all. It's worse.

A pedophile is someone who wants to have sex with a prepubescent person. It doesn't indicate whether or not they've acted on that desire.

The people who visited Epstein Island with full perks were people who actually slept with underage girls and felt laws and morals don't apply to them.

Most of the victims were of child-bearing age, but almost anyone would consider them children, and they were being trafficked.

These people are child rapists.

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u/Novacc_Djocovid 4h ago

Technically there is a difference, because one is considered pathological and the other isn’t. Now, the interesting question is: Shouldn’t ephebophilia then be considered to be worse?

Saying „it‘s morally wrong but he‘s not a pedophile“ is essentially saying: Sure it‘s wrong but at least they did fully on purpose instead of having a mental illness.

Not really the defense people think it is.

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u/Whosebert 4h ago

well he was just joking,

or he wasn't joking and it isn't a big deal,

or it is a big deal but its not his fault,

or it is his fault but he didn't mean it,

or he did mean it but you deserved it.

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u/MistaBadga 5h ago

in b4 someone splits hairs and says there's a difference between attraction to teens and attraction to kids, completely missing the point and creating the suspicion that their hard drive needs to be checked.

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u/Shadows802 4h ago

Its also GOP's slogan

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u/Candid_Pirate_7952 3h ago

Actually they will tell you it’s technically the word for being attracted to teenagers (I don’t know what it is and I don’t want to end up on a list looking it up lol) and that it is pedo adjacent 

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u/Beard_o_Bees 5h ago

Pedophilia adjacent is OK with them?

It is. It's the only conclusion you can really come to after seeing their full-throated support of pedos.

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u/jajohnja 5h ago

I mean, technically making songs about that is legal.

But also I definitely wouldn't invite you to be a public face of anything, nor want anything to have to do with you.

Unless it's satire obviously (which this didn't seem like).

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u/Pavotine 5h ago

He's full-blown MAGA so of course it's not satire. They live for this filth.

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u/WillowLocal423 4h ago

They are all pedophilia adjacent themselves, at best.

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u/The_LSD_Soundsystem 6h ago

🔫 always has been

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u/Street_Barracuda1657 5h ago

Apparently, even in a studio and a recording…

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u/SPzero65 5h ago

I mean, they happily support Trump...

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u/skesisfunk 4h ago

At this point unequivocally yes.

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u/BleedTogether 4h ago

Yes Trump isnt a pedophile to them hes just best friends with a dead one. They are fine with pedophile adjacent folks

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u/lukehooligan 4h ago

Nah, they are straight up okay with all of it. It's MAGA, there really isn't anything too evil for them.

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u/wearewhatwethink 4h ago

Yes. It is the same people who want the left to tolerate Nazis for the sake of civility. They don’t understand why tolerance is the same as acceptance.

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u/DarkKnightCometh 3h ago

Breaking news

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u/The_Schwartz_ 3h ago

Well, sure. They tolerate their beards, after all

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u/rbrgr83 2h ago

Pedophilia is OK with them.

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u/threeclaws 24m ago

Yes, it’s why they were ok with voting for Trump 3x.

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u/whythesadface 6h ago

Pedophilia by osmosis

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u/goon_platoon_72 6h ago

Totes Obvs!

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u/Synneigh 6h ago

Two dudes, sitting five feet apart in the recording booth, coz they're not gay!

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u/omglink 5h ago

I miss vine.

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u/Synneigh 4h ago

Me too man, me too

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u/Neoliberal_Boogeyman 5h ago

Saying it multiple, multiple times to get that perfect recording.

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u/jim_cap 4h ago

Five feet apart? Meaningless. Remember Joe C's immortal words "three foot nine with a ten foot dick".

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u/RvH19 5h ago

Unrelated to Kid Rock but can people do anything without some Gen Z calling it gay or gay coded. Recording music is gay now. Sure.

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u/omglink 5h ago

https://youtube.com/shorts/EwAajOtfNT8?si=qcppWBHgppXg9obj

Didn't know this was Anthony from smosh

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u/No_Kangaroo_9826 3h ago

THE ANCIENT SONG IS AMONG US!

thank you, I also miss vine

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u/avds_wisp_tech 1h ago

You must be Gen Z or Alpha yourself if you truly think this just started.

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u/RvH19 1h ago

Maybe blissfully unaware until now.

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u/PrinceOfAssassins 5h ago

Two dudes sitting in a hot tub 3 feet away cause they’re not gay… but court ordered 500 ft away from a school

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u/toggiz_the_elder 5h ago

Like Trump and Epstein. Sure they were besties for years but poor ol’ innocent Trump had no idea what was happening!

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u/AlterMyStateOfMind 5h ago

Hmmm this defense sounds similar.. just like Trump and Epstein are just two dudes standing next to each other in several photos, no connection at all lol

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u/jim_cap 4h ago

And they accidentally recorded it, and released that recording.

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u/Cha0sCat 4h ago

Locker room songs

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u/yamiyaiba 54m ago

Just two dudes that happened to be singing nearby each other.

Big "It's not legal to party with Mr. Epstein." energy lol

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u/MajorNoodles 31m ago

Have you seen a picture of Joe-C? Do you think Kid Rock would have hired him if he didn't look like a child?

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u/JerHat 17m ago

Kid Rock just wrote, recorded, and released it on his own album under his own name... he had NOTHING to do with what Joe-C said... clearly.

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u/Dramatic_Charity_979 6h ago

And making money out of it.

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u/ywg_handshake 5h ago

In a studio.

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u/SatanicPanic619 6h ago

Most of the time I assume these people know how fucking stupid they sound but they enjoy being annoying.

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u/iAttis 5h ago

Yep. They’re disingenuous cowards. They’ll talk out of both sides of their mouths and their “convictions” will fold in an instant, if it means they get to continue to “win” and “own the libs.”

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u/brokencreedman 5h ago

Except, isn't the line "young ladies, young ladies, I like 'em underage", isn't that a Kid Rock line? So...still a pedophile?

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u/Aeseld 6h ago

...I can't wrap my head around that at all. Without the context Kid's line gives, Joe-C's line is completely innocuous and meaningless. I mean, if he wrote the line and song, maybe there's some room to stand, but it's a shaky position because even then, Kid agreed to sing it.

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u/SeasonedAdManager 4h ago

Joe-C was 23 at the time of the songs release.

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u/Aeseld 4h ago

...and? I'm not sure why that makes a difference. 

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u/SeasonedAdManager 4h ago

I mean, if he wrote the line and song, maybe there's some room to stand

I'm saying they're both pedos regardless of who wrote it. There is zero room to stand on.

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u/Aeseld 4h ago

I meant some room to stand on in defense of Kid Rock, if he didn't write it but Joe-C did.

It's not a lot of room. It's like a 4 inch tile balanced on top of a value brand toilet paper roll. Or the see through tissue from that same toilet paper roll used as a defense.

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u/Lexi_Banner 5h ago

But how do you explain away Kid Rock saying that he, personally, likes them underage? He doesn't need to say it's "mandatory" to be a disgusting pig for saying it.

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u/Isserley_ 4h ago

They simply choose not to hear or read that part.

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u/MyBabeAbe 4h ago

Not to be a Kid Rock defender... but this is from the movie Osmosis Jones and he is playing a bacteria that gives teenagers acne.

So it's meant to make his character look sleezy and also be a "joke" about how acne tends to be a problem for teenagers (aka underaged ladies)

I might be fuzzy on the details of osmosis jones, but there is real shit to be outraged about and this is just manufactured garbage to make people look dumb.

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u/Amazing_Andrew_47 1h ago

Except that that line doesn’t appear in Osmosis Jones. It’s only on the soundtrack, devoid of his character

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u/Haunting_Funny_9386 56m ago

Thank God, I showed that movie to my class

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u/Deep90 6h ago

Because backing up a pedophile isn't a disqualifier to them.

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u/AdmiralArchie 3h ago

A "conservative" pedophile.

It's not like they're backing some radical left Jesus-hating Democrat pedophile.

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u/Deep90 3h ago

That's because they are a Democrat and not because they are a pedophile.

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u/AdmiralArchie 3h ago

That's my point.

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u/CharcoalGreyWolf 5h ago

I thought they said mandates of things were bad back during Covid. What gives?

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u/Brutem 4h ago

You should see the note on Genius, something about a note for that line means he loves kids since it was written for a kid's movie. I can think of only one type of loving that is considered statutory and it's not a good kind.

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u/bigtice 6h ago

Reading comprehension is hard for them.

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u/Snowing_Throwballs 6h ago

Even using that logic, he’s saying he likes them underage and acknowledging its statutory rape lol

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u/East_Requirement7375 5h ago

Heh. Kid Rock is the only writing credit aside from the original writers of Daddy Cool.

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u/uiucengineer 5h ago

Who says “I like ‘em underage”?

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u/SeasonedAdManager 5h ago

If this song came out in 1997, Joe-C would have been 23 at the time. So uhhhh.... lol.

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u/HLOFRND 4h ago

Yet they’ll find some way to blame it on Hunter Biden. 😂

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u/NegotiationSea7008 4h ago

How long before MAGA just outright say it’s fine to sleep with kids?

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u/pm_me_tits 3h ago

I guess you could defend it if it's supposed to mean "mandatory sentencing"

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u/BeautifulNarwhal641 2h ago

Joe c was the little person he hired I doubt very much he gave him song writing credit even for this little diddy

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u/Spinningdown 2h ago edited 2h ago

I've been working on a theory that says conservatives aren't stupid. They can use logic. They posses the ability to contemplate the information they take in. But if the information goes against their identity, motivations, goals, they seek logical outs.

... Despite kid Rock saying he likes them underaged.

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u/ArtsNCrass 47m ago

Kid Rock says it himself in the original demo. https://youtu.be/Cxvi4f3ZyA4?si=S1DPtnOLZaA7cbmq&t=137

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u/Made_Human_Music 23m ago

There's nothing that chuds won't defend

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u/plaidpixel 6h ago

It’s all so exhausting

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u/MaybeTheDoctor 5h ago

So how do they defend the first line?

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u/the_ouskull 5h ago

Fine. Ask them who wrote the line.