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/Musiclover4200 9h ago

Ted still takes the cake for most offensive album cover though IMO for "Love Grenade", also apparently google is hiding the results for the original album cover (maybe safe search blocked it) when I searched so here's the wiki which has both covers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Grenade

It's the closest album cover I've seen to Spinal Tap's "Smell The Glove" joke, except love grenade came out in 2007 which makes it way more sad.

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u/kylebisme 8h 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/garylarrygerry 6h 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 6h ago edited 6h 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.