Rock songs glamorizing sexuality of underage females; a thing of the past?

In most of the southern states, the age of consent is 16, or 12 if you're related.

Joan Jett And The Blackhearts: I Love Rock N' Roll

"I saw him dancin' there by the record machine

I knew he must a been about seventeen"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xL5spALs-eA

When Richie Valens (La Bamba) recorded "Oh Donna" ("I had a girl, Donna was her name"), Valens was 17 and Donna Ludwig was 15

"Into the Night" - Benny Mardones

She's just 16 years old

Leave her alone

They say

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aWhn0Hc8ps

Gary Puckett is still touring-

He's in a bus with The Turtles and a couple of other 70 year old front men from other groups

Nick Gilder - Hot Child in the City

Ted Nugget, "Jailbait"

Well, I don’t care if you’re just 13

You look too good to be true

I just know that you’re probably clean...

Jailbait you look fine, fine, fine...

It’s quite alright, I asked your mama

Wait a minute, officer

Don’t put those handcuffs on me

Put them on her, and I’ll share her with you

Two of the classics

"Only Sixteen" by Sam Cooke and later by Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show.

"You're Sixteen" by Johnny Burnette and later by Ringo Starr

Consider this.... wrote:

30 years ago, for adult men to be pursuing underage females, it was racy but accepted as normal behavior and even glorified.

I came of age in the 70s and 80s and the catch phrase was 15 will get you 20. I think it was ok to flirt with or even date a 17 year old when you were 20, but at 21 or older? That was a bit sketchy even back then.

Stray Cat Blues by Jagger/Richards is the epitome of this. The girl is 15, but on Get Yer Ya Yas out, it was changed to 13.

I hear the click-clack of your feet on the stairs

I know you're no scare-eyed honey.

There'll be a feast if you just come upstairs

But it's no hanging matter

It's no capital crime

I can see that you're fifteen years old

No I don't want your I.D.

And I can see that you're so far from home

But it's no hanging matter

It's no capital crime

Oh yeah, you're a strange stray cat

Oh yeah, don'tcha scratch like that

Oh yeah, you're a strange stray cat

I bet, bet your mama don't know you scream like that

I bet your mother don't know you can spit like that.

You look so weird and you're so far from home

But you don't really miss your mother

Don't look so scared I'm no mad-brained bear

But it's no hanging matter

It's no capital crime

Oh, yeah

Woo!

I bet your mama don't know that you scatch like that

I bet she don't know you can bite like that.

You say you got a friend, that she's wilder than you

Why don't you bring her upstairs

If she's so wild then she can join in too

It's no hanging matter

It's no capital crime

Oh yeah, you're a strange stray cat

Oh yeah, don'tcha scratch like that

Oh yeah, you're a strange stray cat

I bet you mama don't know you can bite like that

I'll bet she never saw you scratch my back

She was seventeen and she was far from in-between

It was summertime in Northern Michigan

And we were trying different things

We were smoking funny things

Making love out by the lake to our favorite song

Sipping whiskey out the bottle, not thinking 'bout tomorrow

One from the early 90's: Barenaked Ladies, "McDonald's Girl"

She doesn't try to impress anyone

She doesn't act all tough like all the other girls that I know

She don't treat me like a simpleton

She's not ashamed to be the only other virgin I know

When my hamburger's cold I get up ready to go,

She's only fifteen years old and I'm in love with her soul

There she stands behind the register

She's taking orders from the Saddle River little league

If they knew how much I wanted her

Their home-room teachers would have to send them home for a week

"Does your Mother Know" by of all groups, ABBA. Bjorn doesn't, but he sure sounds like he wants to...

How many songs refer to the female as "baby"? Too numerous to mention. Pedophelia at its best.

dittz wrote:

17 isn't underage wrote:

At least in my state, 17 is not underage. The age of consent here is 16.

Yeah, but no one on here cares about facts. They just want to demonize and ridicule people based on their limited perspectives (in this case, thinking that the law in their city must be the law everywhere).

Exactly. The age of consent is 16 in more than half of the states in the US - assuming that you are no more than 4 years older than your younger partner.

Someone already said, Winger. That song is fun.

"Cherry Pie" by Warrant doesn't specify the girl's age, but from this verse she evidently is still young enough to live at home with her parents:

Swingin' in the bathroom, swingin' on the floor

Swingin' so hard forgot to lock the door

In walk her daddy standin' six foot four

Said, "You ain't gonna swing with my daughter no more"

It's also worth mentioning that Cherry Pie also includes possibly the all-time cheesiest song lyrics of any genre:

Huh, swingin' in the livin' room, swingin' in the kitchen

Most folks don't 'cause they're too busy bitchin'

Swingin' in there 'cause she wanted me to feed her

So I mixed up the batter and she licked the beater

surprised Chuck Berry hasn't been mentioned yet considering he served time for a certain indiscretion:

http://performingsongwriter.com/chuck-berry/

the lyrics of Memphis:

Help me, information, more than that I cannot add

Only that I miss her and all the fun we had

But we were pulled apart because her mom did not agree

And tore apart our happy home in Memphis Tennessee

Last time I saw Marie she's waving me good-bye

With hurry home drops on her cheek that trickled from her eye

Marie is only six years old, information please

Try to put me through to her in Memphis Tennessee

AC/DC's Love At First Feel is the late great Bon Scott at his sleaziest.

You never told me where you came from

You never told me your name

I didn't know if you were legal tender

But I spent it just the same

And I didn't know it could happen to me

But I fell in love in the first degree

It was love at first feel

Love at first feel

Love at first feel

First touch was too much

They told me it was disgustin'

They told me it was a sin

They saw me knocking on your front door

Saw me smile when you let me in

You and me baby we'ez all alone

Let's get something goin'

While your mum and dad ain't home

Love at first feel

It was love at first feel, that's why they said

Love at first feel

Feels good just like I knew it would

Rockers sing about it, rappers do it (and often serve time for it).