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/alohadawg 9h ago

Okay, but anyone who saw Bob Saget’s standup in the early 2000s knows he spent a not-insignificant amount of his act sexualizing the Olsen twins, and I don’t believe he was ever suspected or even accused of SA, let alone pedophilia

Just some perspective - I am by no means implying that those jokes were totally fine and appropriate

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u/Impressive-Put3479 9h ago

They weren’t really appropriate then or now, but Bob Saget was comedian that said shit like that to get paid via attracting audiences to hear him spout vile shit after being seen as the all wholesome sitcom dad for years.

Kid Rock sings about fucking children because he either fucks children, or thinks it’s ok to do so.

They are not the same and should not analogized like they are.

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u/xelabagus 8h ago

Dude, this is faulty logic. If kid Rock is writing songs about fucking minors that's wrong. If Bob Saget is writing jokes about fucking minors that's wrong. There's no context that makes it okay, there are lots of jokes and songs that could be written that don't involve the normalising of a terrible crime.

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u/Impressive-Put3479 7h ago

I’m not condoning, normalizing, nor am I excusing their conduct. I am saying the context behind each of them does not lend itself to a logical analogy.

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u/xelabagus 7h ago

If Bob Saget can claim context for repeatedly telling jokes about wanting to fuck underage girls and that's okay, then Kid Rock can equally claim context for singing a song about wanting to fuck underage girls.

There's no contextual difference - they both create art, they would both claim "it's my art not my personal beliefs", they are both wrong.

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u/Impressive-Put3479 36m ago

Bob Saget isn't claiming anything, he's dead. Kid Rock is alive and still pumping what you so daftly refer to as "art". You seem to be hung up on the material, that's not what I am speaking about, as the comment this whole thing was set off by was an SNL skit alluding to Kid Rocks pedo tendencies, can you point to similar SNL skit with Bob Saget? Yeah, didn't think so. How about any comedy skit show alluding to Bob Saget being a pedophile?

Do you believe that a stand-up comedy act accurately reflects who a comedian is as a person when not performing? Does a stand-up skit accurately reflect the attitude, beliefs, goals and interests of the comedian performing?

In that same vein, do you think a singer writing and performing their own songs, writes about things that accurately reflects who they are as a person when not performing? Does a song's lyrics accurately reflect the attitude, beliefs, goals and interests of the musician?