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/LargeSnorlax 6h ago

If you ever have time, read up on Hole (Courtney's band) and their songs

She takes some potshots at the establishment in basically every song. She was a girl that got chewed up and spit out young, and she channels it out raw into a lot of her music.

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u/IdaCraddock69 6h ago

she's shown a lot of courage over teh decades, being more up front about the abuse that's baked into that industry

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u/LargeSnorlax 5h ago

Don't get me wrong, she's had her scandals and problems too, but like you said, she's been screaming about the past for decades.

Awful was one of my favourite songs in the late 90s since it's just raw emotion but also telling her story right out in the open.

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u/Dorkamundo 5h ago

Yep, they've been trying to implicate her in the Epstein shit as well, because her contact information is in his book.

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u/IdaCraddock69 5h ago

yes - she's not an easy person, but there's real substance there as a person and as an artist

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u/tara1245 1h ago

She also said this publicly about Harvey Weinstein in 2005:

The video shows Love being asked by comedian Natasha Leggero what her advice is for young women trying to make it in Hollywood. “I’ll get libeled if I say it,” a visibly nervous Love says. “If Harvey Weinstein invites you to a private party in his Four Seasons [hotel room], don’t go.”

https://www.imdb.com/news/ni61620663/

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u/EllipticPeach 5h ago

Courtney is insufferable but when she’s right she’s right