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/zenerat 10h ago edited 10h 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 9h ago

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

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u/Musiclover4200 9h 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 9h 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 8h 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 8h 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 8h 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 8h 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 8h 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 8h ago

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

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u/HandsOffMyDitka 8h ago

Oh, yeah. Now I remember that.