Many of them have also revealed themselves to be suffering from transphobic brain rot, like Twisted Sister, Kiss and Alice Cooper. The same guys who were genderbending as part of "glam rock" and wore make-up, feminine outfits, and "challenged gender norms", are now whining about trans people being a fad and parents allowing kids to freely express their gender identity.
Boomers really are not okay.I guess I shouldn't be surprised considering how that scene was rife with sexism and misogyny. Those things always seem to go hand in hand with transphobia. It's just fucking ironic how chuds are now embracing these dweebs because of their transphobia, while 40 years ago these same artists were considered satanic and a danger to children by reactionaries.
I mean it sucks, but it kinda makes sense in a twisted way that the cis guys who embraced gender-bending culture in order to be predatory are now worried that that's all the transgender movement is. Its all projection, like the homophobic in the closey religious types that turn out to be massive deviants.
It's just fucking ironic how chuds are now embracing these dweebs because of their transphobia, while 40 years ago these same artists were considered satanic and a danger to children by reactionaries.
I have an idea for a trolling bit. I think you know where I'm going with this.
Ted Nugent LITERALLY has a song called "Jailbait" and yet he's supposed to be saving the democrat sex trafficked children with Trump.
many rock stars learned music to get attention from teenage girls. which is okay at first, because they were teenage boys. the problem is when they become adults and don't grow out of it, and fame+money makes it very easy for them to be predators. the entire music industry is designed to facilitate this behavior.
rock music has fallen out of the mainstream but we still see this with a lot of famous rappers for example (Diddy, Drake, etc)
I thought about it for a few minutes, and the only band i could think of from that era that might not be full creeps was Blue Oyster Cult, but that's because I know basically nothing about the band member's private lives.
You could point to the lyrics "Well she was just 17, you know what I mean" by the Beatles but I think McCartney was fresh 20 when he wrote that about his high school girlfriend as their first single off their first album so they weren't that famous.
The closest I've heard to any of the Beatles being creeps is George Harrison "joking" about buying his friend's 15 year old daughter when he was well into his 30s. Not sure why you'd joke about something like that.
Motorhead had a song called "Jailbait" and uh...holy shit.
wtf cw:exactly what you think
Teenage baby, you're a sweet young thing
Still tied to Mummy's apron strings
I don't even dare to ask your age
It's enough to know you're here backstage
You're jailbait
And I just can't wait
Jailbait baby, come on
One taste baby, all I need
My decision made at lightning speed
I don't even want to know your name
It's enough to know you feel the same
Jailbait
I just can't wait
Jailbait baby, get down
Hey!
Love that young stuff
Tell me baby, oh you look so fine
Send quivers up and down my spine
I don't care about our different ages
I'm an open book with well thumbed pages
Jailbait
I ain't too late
Jailbait baby, get down
Right now
I always found being very uncomfortable listening to Motorhead and I guess this really helped me explain that and glad I never liked them much because good lord is that fucking godawful.
I'm just happy that Kubrick seems to not have been one of them. Even when adapting very dark stories where he could have tried to get away with "but that's the age of the characters in the original" he had the good sense to age-up troublingly-young characters. There's a particularly notorious scene in the original A Clockwork Orange novel that he handled perfectly in the adaptation. Anyone familiar with the movie knows the scene where Alex has a consensual threesome with these two adult women.
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But in the original novel, they're both 10 years old and not consenting whatsoever.
David Lynch unfortunely also signed the letter in favor of Roman Polanski (No idea if he regrets supporting it like Natalie Portman did).
He's also adamently a proponent and supporter of Transcendental Meditation and has converted half the actors he's worked with. Which as an individual practice isnt't a problem, but the organization behind it is a huge scam started by a predatory rolls royce yogi who Lynch personally knew. The same guy who made The Beatles leave India because he creeped on their girlfriends.
I half forgive him for this because I think he probably doesnt read literally anything on the internet and has had the privilege of the organization sheltering him from any of their wrongdoing. Unless a friend of his personally told him, he might not have any idea.
Back in the 70s all this pedo shit was just out in the open in the West. I once saw an old US lip gloss ad targeted at young girls, which had a sexualized pre-teen girl wearing make-up in her undies with some very creepy "baby girl" marketing surrounding the whole thing.
At least in here in Europe, there were also movies released in theater back then that had CP in them. I remember reading about one movie that was eventually banned in some Western countries after people complained, but you could still go to any West German theater and watch your Italian kiddie porn there.
I once had a boomer tell me that back in the day you could just walk into a video rental store, and it would have a dedicated CP section. All very normal!
i worked at a place that had boomer rock on all the time and one song i hated was what's your name where the chorus is literally LITTLE GIRL WHAT'S YOUR NAME
Except the one who survived, and then got shot by a landowner who thought he was trespassing
Listening to the song "My Sharona"
noticing the lyrics and thinking about them for 1/16th of a second
On second thoughts, listen to Weird Al's"my bologna" instead?
Gary Puckett and the Union Gap.
The song is delivered from the point of view of a man who has become distressed upon finding out that the girl he is with, contrary to the first impression she had made upon him, is actually younger than the legal age of consent. He is asking her to leave before things go any further: "Get out of here / before I have the time / to change my mind / 'cause I'm afraid we'll go too far".
It reached #2 on the charts. #1 in the UK.
I was talking about this with a friend years ago how fucking common it was for the classic rockstars (mostly of previous generations to what we listened to, but sadly some more recent too) to be full on pedos. I did a little bit of reading on the subject and it is gut-churning. Not just how ubiquitous it was, but also how largely accepted it was (and continues to be), and also how severe so much of it was.
Content Warning on the rest of this comment from here on out. Gary Glitter is probably the most egregious and well known as far as like Epstein level offenses, you can look him up if you want the sickening details. Obvious huge CW if you do. There's another name that always comes up with this stuff that I'm hesitant to even mention because he was more of a nobody than a true rockstar and became famous more for his crimes and how extreme they were than for his music, though his band did have a following that he drew his victims from. NSFL kind of shit.
If we were to make a list, it might be easier to name the major classic rock stars that weren't creepers in some way. Like Mick Jagger and Jimmy Page "dating" the same 14 year old girl Lori Maddox (major CW here: common term for her was that she was a "baby groupie") at the same time, and like David Bowie was involved with her too somehow? The bassist for the Rolling Stones (Wyman) was 47 in a "relationship" with a 13 year old. The drummer for the Eagles was in legal trouble regarding a 16 year old. Then there's Pete Townsend of The Who getting caught paying with his credit card for CSAM but used the excuse that he was trying to catch the predators and do "research" regarding his own abuse. I don't know enough about that one, maybe he doesn't belong on the same list, but it seems pretty sus. People in the thread mentioning the "Little girl, what's your name?" lyrics and that's Lynard Skynard. And of course My Sharona. There's a bunch of songs I can't remember atm saying the same kind of thing. I think Iggy Pop also has some lyrics about some of his known underage fans. Stephen Tyler (Aerosmith) and fucking Ted Nugent both became "legal guardians" of underage girls for the reasons you are correctly assuming but wish you weren't. Jerry Lee Lewis famously married his 13 year old cousin. Elvis Presley and Priscilla was like 14. List goes on.
I never really knew anything about Gary Glitter, so I assumed he was some beloved glam rock star with tons of songs people recognize, when in reality he's closer to a one hit wonder (and they still play that song at sporting events).
There's another name that always comes up with this stuff that I'm hesitant to even mention because he was more of a nobody than a true rockstar and became famous more for his crimes and how extreme they were than for his music, though his band did have a following that he drew his victims from.
I can think of one guy, although he's definitely not ”classic rock”.
This is why I call my partner "babe", so people think I'm just calling them a pig.
It just makes the boomers whole "forever young" ethos all the more creepy. They really did become the generation that had a mid-life crisis that never ended and made it everyone's problem.
Oh yeah, and with all the shit about Diddy, Drake, Epstein, Mike Jeffries, (probably) Trump and Musk. How many of these creeps are our neighbors but the only thing that ultimately stopped them is the fact they know even they would be caught?
Can't find it anymore but there was a short called like "every classic rock song before 1985" that went
Girl, you're 15 years old
And you're beautiful, and I'm
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When you notice the sheer number of "classic rock" songs that are explicitly about creeping on children it's hard to go back. The stories about groups like Led Zeppelin are disturbing
I probably took more psychic damage from being bombarded by classic rock at the auto parts where I worked than I realize.
