The sad truth is that it was a very common practice. Just wait until they hear about Jerry Lee Lewis.
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carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Because no one cared about that 60 years ago
aodhsishaj@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
And the Grateful Dead (sure Bob, you waited while she slept outside your room every night for 3 years), Chuck Berry, Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin, and about a hundred other groups. Hell, Kiss had the Christine Sixteen song, Jethro Tull had Aqualung, Seventeen by Winger, Into the Night by Benny Mardones, and a bunch of other songs have super uncomfortable lyrics about girls.
That’s not even getting into well known shit bags like Nugent.
MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk 4 weeks ago
Jethro Tull doesn’t romanticize Aqualung (the old man that sits on a park bench and eyes little girls with bad intents). Quite the contrary actually.
TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
That’s a really good point. I’m leaving it for now so your reply makes sense but I’ll remove it next time I make that list (which happens too often).
aodhsishaj@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Yuuuuuup it’s a long line of assholes in rock and roll.
Illuminostro@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Those fucks would talk parents into giving them “Guardianship” over their teenage daughters so they wouldn’t be arrested for kidnapping and child molestation.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I’m pretty sure fathers cared. Shotgun and shovel levels of caring.
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
At least one of the fathers openly endorsed it. I don’t think fathers cared as much about it as you think.
kent_eh@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Most people weren’t even aware of it.
The general public knowing every little detail about a celebrity’s life simply wasn’t a thing then.
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
People wrote songs about it. Famous songs that you know the words to. People knew, they just didn’t care.