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.

It's so wild how normalized that shit was for so long. A cursed fact I know off the top of my head is that CP wasn't criminalized in the US until the 70s, so the boomers grew up with it being totally legal.

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)

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

35

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

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?

Motorhead had a song called "Jailbait" and uh...holy shit.

Filmmakers, too.

Listening to the song "My Sharona"

noticing the lyrics and thinking about them for 1/16th of a second

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.

This is why I call my partner "babe", so people think I'm just calling them a pig.

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 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

One of the main arguments for why ”cancel culture” is bullshit is that all of this still gets played, even from people like Steven Tyler who we know for sure are pedos.

I probably took more psychic damage from being bombarded by classic rock at the auto parts where I worked than I realize.

And then I came of age listening to metalcore and deathcore. Lotta similar shit. Just SA and DV allegations/charges left and right. Warped Tour was a mistake. They knew and they didn’t do shit. Not to mention so many of the lyrics were about raging at your ex girlfriend or some similar implied relationship.

Can’t blame you. Feel the same way when I hear “babygirl” in a song

Anyone know if prog rock has any problematic elements? I already know Rush are turbo cringe libertarian Ayn Rand