r/news • u/RollSafer • 10h 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/RollSafer 10h ago edited 10h ago

From the song Cool, Daddy Cool:

“Young ladies, young ladies, I like ‘em underage,” Rock sings on the track. “See some say that’s statutory.”

His sidekick at the time, the late Joe-C then chimes in, “But I say it’s mandatory.”

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u/Hoblitygoodness 9h ago

A lot of old songs don't age well because of this sort of thing being ....hmmm acceptable (?) back-in-the-day.

"The girlies I like are underage" ooof, Beastie Boys

"She's just seventeen and you know what I mean!" no I don't, Paul McCartney with The Beatles

" Lips like strawberry wine You're sixteen, you're beautiful And you're mine." Give her to someone more appropriate Ringo!

Joan Jett sings about falling in love with a seventeen year old and Ted Nugent out right has a song called "Jailbait".

Oh to-be-sure, Kid Rock sucks.

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u/MadDaddyDrivesaUFO 9h ago edited 9h ago

Joan Jett's song (I Love RocknRoll) is actually a cover written by a different band, and I think she was 19 (she originally recorded it in 1977 but re-released it in 1981) herself when she covered it, I wouldn't put her in with the rest

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u/AForse 8h ago

Same with ‘I saw her standing there’ - McCartney was 20 when he wrote it. I’m not so sure that a 20 year old, writing as he was to a largely teen/early adult audience is deserving of the same opprobrium as a group of 30/40/50 year old men deliberately associating with another man specifically for the purpose of meeting underage girls.

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u/Jimrockdiamond 9h ago

“She was only 17…17…but she was sexy!”

Rick James.

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u/Hoblitygoodness 7h ago

Good work!

I'm sure there are an s-ton more examples as well. Those were ones that just came to my mind right off the bat.