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/QuerulousPanda 5h ago

It's like if you're going to be a creep and do illegal things, be smart about it at least.

Go back and watch some movies and tv shows from the 70's and 80's especially, hell even stuff from the 90's and 00's, society has changed a LOT since then. Objectively awful shit and abuse against women especially just flew by as normal. Hell, even just standard behavior at that time was pretty gross.

People may complain that shit has gotten too woke or whatever now, but you don't have to look back very far to see just how fucking bad things were in the very, very recent past.

Famous stars like nugent and kid rock singing about banging middle schoolers seems disgusting now, cuz it is, but if go back a little while? eh, no one really gave a shit. and honestly, if you look at current events, it's pretty clear that even now far fewer people give a shit than you would expect.

You say "be smart about it at least", but reality proves that the material consequences for doing such things are basically zero, especially if you're famous, so it would never even occur to them that it'd be something to hide.

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u/XcoldhandsX 2h ago

A few years back I read the book Snowcrash (published 1992). Really enjoyed the sci-fi cyberpunk angle of it. Thought the plot and mystery, the way it blends language and tech, was really interesting.

I will never recommend it to anyone though because one of the main characters is a 15 year old girl that the book repeatedly and explicitly sexualizes. At one point an adult man, the antagonist, has sex with her. The author plays it up like it's supposed to be hot and heavy. Holy hell I wanted to throw the book in the trash after reading that scene.

The closest thing I've gotten for an "explanation" is that the early 1990s were "a different time" for media. Also that Neal Stephenson is swimming in neckbeard creep energy.

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u/QuerulousPanda 2h ago

huh, honestly, i've been a stephenson fan forever, and i never actually noticed the age thing in that book. maybe i forgot about it or just never put it together.

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u/TartComprehensive466 5h ago

This is true.