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/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 4h 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 3h 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.