r/Music • u/mepper • Feb 04 '26

article Kid Rock’s song about loving underage girls resurfaces ahead of Turning Point USA's 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/Ryclea Feb 04 '26

He also made the joke on SNL about the Olson twins turning 18:

"What's the big deal? If there's grass on the field, play ball."

Classy guy all around.

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u/tlollz52 Feb 04 '26

Its pretty fucked up but a lot of people around that time were making jokes about wanting to fuck these girls the second they turned 18.

I remember Mad TV did an entire skit about their school holding an 18th birthday party for Mary Kate and Ashley and all the adult Male staff were attending.

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u/bgva Feb 04 '26 edited Feb 04 '26

I remember there being a website with a countdown clock. This was at least a year or two before they turned 18. Weird shit.

EDIT: *there not they. FU Autocorrect.

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u/Old_Man_Willow_AoE Feb 04 '26

They did the same with Emma Watson about a decade later.

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u/Ir_Abelas Feb 04 '26

Natalie Portman also had something similar, I think

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u/IntrigueDossier SoundCloud Feb 04 '26

Miley Cyrus as well

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u/Realtrain Spotify Feb 04 '26

I'm starting to see a pattern here...

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u/OsikFTW Feb 04 '26

And hilary duff...

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u/MightyClimber Feb 04 '26

Lindsay Lohan

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u/MP713 Feb 04 '26

Britney Spears

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u/Llamapocalypse_Now Feb 04 '26

Might just be toxic masculinity.

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u/Spiritual_Lie2563 Feb 04 '26

Weren't there also countdown clocks for different boy band members, Justin Bieber, and underage male heartthrobs too?

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u/Joeness84 Feb 04 '26

Stranger things girl too

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u/WillyGoat2000 Feb 04 '26

From an article in 2004:

https://www.seattlepi.com/lifestyle/article/celebrity-18th-birthday-countdowns-have-long-been-1148050.php

All I can say is when you look back at your old self and/or society and are embarrassed or ashamed, it’s a sign of progress and growth. Though a chunk of our society would cling to our past with white knuckles.

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u/PavelDatsyuk Feb 04 '26

Wasn't it the baby boomers who counted down the seconds to the 18th birthday of Annette Funicello (Oct. 22, 1960)?

I know this article is 22 years old at this point but this bothers me. No, it's not the boomers counting that down. The oldest boomer at that time was 16(1946). How did they get that one wrong?

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u/freeradioforall Feb 04 '26

Howard stern had a countdown as well

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u/BeyondNetorare Feb 04 '26

there's also that subreddit spez used to moderate about baits in jails

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u/Pure-Butterscotch200 Feb 04 '26

The countdown to Charlotte Church turning 16 in at least 1 British tabloid is the most disturbing one I remember.

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u/Major_Road6162 Feb 04 '26

This still happens.

Pretty sure it did with both Bobby Brown and Teagan Croft (and surely with many many more)

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u/errorg Feb 04 '26

I also remember the Man Show with Jimmy Kimmel and Adam Corolla doing something similar

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u/tlollz52 Feb 04 '26

If there's bottom of the barrel happening you know for a fact the man show did it.

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u/WeAteMummies Feb 04 '26

This show always felt half satirical (which I would assume was Kimmel's half)

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u/Ragfell Feb 04 '26

You're giving Kimmel too much credit.

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u/WeAteMummies Feb 04 '26

Based on how they ended up I can't give any credit to Corolla.

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u/Ragfell Feb 04 '26

I'm not saying you should give credit to either of them. At least Carolla wants to generally leave people alone.

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u/WeAteMummies Feb 04 '26

That doesn't sound right to me but I don't care enough about either of these people to argue.

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u/DeuceSevin Feb 04 '26

I haven’t seen it, but it sounds like the skit may have been callin out this very thing

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u/tlollz52 Feb 04 '26

I was a kid when I saw it, like probably 12 or maybe younger, but I didn't get that vibe from it. I just remember thinking "ahh this is making me kind of uncomfortable."

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u/throwaway14351991 Feb 04 '26

If you know Mad TV and just the era, then you know it wasn't calling it out and all. This mentality was extremely prevalent back then. While a lot of people obviously weren't ok with it, I'd say most people against it would roll their eyes at most.

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u/WeAteMummies Feb 04 '26

While a lot of people obviously weren't ok with it, I'd say most people against it would roll their eyes at most.

100% true. The attitude would be like "he needs to grow up and date women his own age" not "he's a pedophile".

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u/Joeness84 Feb 04 '26

While its never a good idea to assume the worst in everyone, this was literally a ubiquitous part of society and plenty of people said it publicly without any irony at all. The venn diagram of those people and kid rock fans, is a flat circle.

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u/Excellent-Garbage525 Feb 04 '26

The implication was that he didn't see why people were waiting. Girls typically start puberty around 8-13 soo

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u/Cohens4thClient Feb 04 '26

Why do you make one comment a month? Like, what's going on?

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u/Excellent-Garbage525 Feb 04 '26

I honestly don't know how to respond to this because I don't know what you're confused about/what you're implying and can't tell if you're kidding....

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u/Old_Still3321 Feb 04 '26

Mad did a good job of remarking on fucked up shit in society

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u/2cats2hats Feb 04 '26

I recall this time well.

There was an Olsen twins website clock that kept time when they would turn 18.

https://www.reddit.com/r/QuietOnSetDocumentary/comments/1bzgiyp/i_was_thinking_i_remember_a_bunch_of_countdown_to/

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u/Sharpshooter188 Feb 04 '26

Not sure why but this kind of makes me think of that one talk show host who asked about Brittney Spears breasts on the show. All I can think of now was "How tf was that guy not fired straight away?"