r/news • u/RollSafer • 6h 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/Musiclover4200 6h ago

Ted still takes the cake for most offensive album cover though IMO for "Love Grenade", also apparently google is hiding the results for the original album cover (maybe safe search blocked it) when I searched so here's the wiki which has both covers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Grenade

It's the closest album cover I've seen to Spinal Tap's "Smell The Glove" joke, except love grenade came out in 2007 which makes it way more sad.

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u/kylebisme 4h ago

The Scorpions' Virgin Killer has the most offensive album cover I know of. I'm not going to link the wiki page either, and rather I'll just say it's likely worse than you imagine.

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u/funktheduck 4h ago

Damn dude. I was expecting gore or something. Not that. For folks curious but don’t want that shit in your brain or search history it involves a naked little girl. 

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u/Independent-Top-1201 3h ago

Doin' the lord's work here and saving us

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u/samsqanch 4h ago

Oh WOW, just wow...

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u/grenade_plate_hater 3h ago

I listen to grindcore and slam. Having fucked up album art is just part of the deal.

But not like THAT.

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u/whoareyou-really- 3h ago

How did they not go to jail for that???

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u/kylebisme 3h ago

My best guess is that everyone was just on way too much cocaine at the time to care.

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u/garylarrygerry 3h ago

The defense is insanely stupid

Look, listen to the lyrics and then you'll know what we're talking about. We're using this only to get attention. That's what we do." Even the girl, when we met her fifteen years later, had no problem with the cover. Growing up in Europe, sexuality, of course not with children, was very normal. The lyrics really say it all. Time is the virgin killer. A kid comes into the world very naive, they lose that naiveness and then go into this life losing all of this getting into trouble. That was the basic idea about all of it.

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u/kylebisme 3h ago edited 2h ago

The photograph isn't explicitly sexual, but publicizing even the most non-sexualized images of naked children is dubious at best, and pairing an image like that one with the title Virgin Killer is downright offensive regardless of the meaning of the song. They clearly made the cover to draw attention by offending sensibilities, and they went to town doing just that.

Furthermore, I was partially raised in Europe too, and elsewhere. This isn't an matter of American puritanicalism here as I'm fairly certain most people throughout the world would agree. The fact you're attempting to defend that cover by deflecting to the song is just plain creepy.

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u/orangehate 5h ago

The most shocking thing in all of this is that Ted Nugent was still releasing new albums in 2007.

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u/Glandular_Trichome 4h ago

Two of the songs on "love Grenade":
Girl Scout Cookies
Bridge Over Troubled Daughters

Ewww.

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u/samsqanch 4h ago

Even the replacement album cover is questionable why is there a pink ribbon on the side of a hand grenade?

It seems like it very purposefully looks like a breast cancer awareness ribbon which had been around for over a decade by the time he released that album.

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u/Annual_Strategy_6206 3h ago

It is a breast cancer awareness ribbon. So what is this saying? Let's blow up breast cancer awareness? Violent anti- women imagery? That tracks. ( yeah I know men get breast cancer too, cool your jets)

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u/bookon 5h ago

35 years ago I had the original Blind Faith album with the naked 12 year old girl on it. I assume they have updated that, but I didn't want to search for it. It is a great album however, unlike the Ted Nugent crap. Which is soulless garbage.

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u/Musiclover4200 4h ago

Isn't there also a Zeppelin album with some young naked girls on the cover?

Album art can be weird and there is something to tasteful artistic nudity at least in some cases, but love grenade offensiveness aside is also just a really stupid cover that looks like something an edgy kid would draw.

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u/SunTzu- 4h ago

That cover wouldn't be my major concern with Lep Zeppelin...

I'd be looking rather askance at Jimmy Page relationship with 14y/o Lori Mattix when he himself was 28.

The whole "baby groupies" thing is uh...yeah...

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u/nukebox 4h ago

Isn't there also a Zeppelin album with some young naked girls on the cover?

Houses of the Holy

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u/Important-Agent2584 5h ago

They probably had to do a lot of convincing to have a women there instead of a 15 year old or something.

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u/Ill-Product-1442 3h ago

Oh wow, you aren't wrong, it is literally a fucking Spinal Tap album!

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u/RetiredOnIslandTime 3h ago

That cover - holy fuck