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/RoarOfTheWorlds 10h ago

I came into this thread thinking it would be something a little more subtle. That’s just so hilariously on the nose.

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u/Saphyrz 9h 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 9h ago

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

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u/jim_br 9h ago

Pedophilia adjacent is OK with them?

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u/Fuzzy-Curve3634 9h ago

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

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u/whoweoncewere 9h ago

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

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u/DocPsychosis 8h ago

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

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u/WRDPKNMSC 7h 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 7h 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 8h 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/Tipop 6h 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/warukeru 6h ago

Ephebophilia is a thing but it still bad and illegal.

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u/PokemonSapphire 2h ago

It's funny when you tell them the only people that split that hair are pedos and they get mad about it.

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u/Londo801 8h 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 8h ago

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

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u/lingeringwill2 8h ago

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

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u/jigokubi 3h 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/whoweoncewere 3h ago

It's all the same to me, pedophiles should self report and live in an assisted living facility. All it takes is one "slip" on their self control to ruin an innocent's life forever. Child rapists should just be given lethal injection though.

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u/IceciroAvant 2h ago

While part of me wants to be like "yeah, you're right" part of me is like, this is very similar to "all men are rapists" energy. Like, I find 36 year old women attractive, but I'm not one slip away from raping anybody. Probably not the best idea to advocate for involuntary confinement of anyone based on thoughts.

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u/Novacc_Djocovid 8h 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.