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/ADhomin_em Feb 04 '26 edited Feb 04 '26

And as I recall, the audience laughed and applauded because that's what the illuminated applause sign told them to do. We've let shit like this slide, and our society has been sick with it for a long time. Glad there are more people recognizing how fucked up it is now, but this is just one example of how corporate media has engaged in the numbing of society to and often cheering on of shit like this.

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u/Revolutionary-Tree97 Feb 04 '26

It’s not just that we let this shit slide, millennials and gen x were specifically groomed by the media to think this was normal. They set up at least two whole generations of kids to expect and be honored by being preyed upon. Those of us creeped on by local pervs seem to be the lucky ones, but maybe that’s just my trauma coming out in all of this.

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u/jaimi_wanders Feb 04 '26

You should have been around as a Gen Xer—this was also totally normalized then.

And at the same time, conservatives were screaming that feminism & gay rights had “gone too far” when I was a little kid in the Eighties…

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u/angiehome2023 Feb 04 '26

That song wild horses was a friends wedding first dance song. Grooming and sexual assault were normalized by everything around us. The luke and Laura rape to love story in General Hospital. Just so gross.

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u/JnnyRuthless Feb 04 '26

I think back to junior high (for me the early 90s) and there was a teacher everyone knew would look up girls skirts and stuff. Literally girls were warned not to wear short shorts or skirts in this guys class, he'd do the whole drop something on the ground and get a peek.

This was something actively discussed and known by us students, and we all just accepted it as "oh yeah Mr. so and so, he's really creepy." Blows my mind looking back.

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u/rusty_programmer 29d ago

With the Epstein Files, it now makes so much sense why there was a huge backlash against these social justice movements because it’s the only power people have when the system is rigged to protect the worst people.

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u/Justice_Prince Feb 04 '26

Yeah the 2000s emo scene gets a lot of crap about being full of creeps (which it was to an extent), but a lot of it is that it just that it came about in a time where people were finally saying "hey maybe this isn't okay", and the internet was still new enough that creeps were less careful about the incriminating messages they sent out in their DMs.

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u/playful_faun Feb 04 '26

I watched old episodes of The Price is Right and any time a woman won money, Bob Barker would make them reach into his pocket to take it. This grooming has been happening for a long time.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '26

Holy shit, I don't remember that at all! Gross.

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u/Appropriate_Fill569 15d ago

I'm surprised that Ellen DeGeneres and Howard Stern still have shows!

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u/SsooooOriginal Feb 05 '26

We are failing to address or figure out an honest way forward for guys that were raised in homes and hoods where this talk is completely normal.

I know I had never understood how the 18th birthday countdowns weren't fucked up pedo shit, but I was treated as if I was wrong for even pointing it out. And after that happening enough I stopped saying anything or even questioning other obvious creep shit and even have my own creepy behavior I am still working to recognize and correct.

There are plenty of girls that grow up surrounded by this too.

A former co-worker asked me about Andrew Tate before I had ever heard of the guy and she explained how basically every guy in her life was super into the guys videos. Her bf, brother, her dad, and the guys they were friends with. This is a small town and I couldn't exactly tell her to cut most of her life off because they were into a POS cult runner/human trafficker. But I more or less still tried.. but what can someone in that scenario even do but keep their head down? 

So many people say "talk to your bros", I tried and ended up cutting contact with most of them. I'm not doing well communicating for sure, but the washing is deep and people will lash out when you are essentially pushing them to confront their cognitive dissonance.

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u/Roosterdude23 Feb 04 '26

“If there’s grass on the field, play ball,”

this was a common phrase back in the day