Her dad is 100% right and not a fool!

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now a days. happened quite a bit back then.

I was around 13 when this song came out. This was the theme song for when I grew up and found a boyfriend and fell in love. We didn’t have KZfaq back then to analyze the lyrics and I sat here at 35 reading the lyrics on the internet, like “16 years old, WTF?”

Yup

Me too!!! Wtf?

Exactly what I thought. I have my own daughter's & if he came near them he'd be in jail.

Same!! It used to play in my store all the time. As I got older I did pay attention to the lyrics and was grossed out. But seeing the video took it to the next level

Dude looks like he's in his 40's lol

@@ambermcgavitt266 with a 16 yr old. Sick

So I did some research on this song and it's not as creepy as we all believe.... It was about a 16 year old and her family that was abandoned by their father... So he helped the family out... No sexual content, and he wasn't in love with her... They had a platonic relationship

@@cita134 except for kissing her in the video like a pedo

@@cita134 It's a bit naive to think that the song's lyrics and the video are about something other than a man's sexual interest in a 16 year old girl it happens after all. I'm not bothered by it, it's just a song lyric. I understand why the story was spun by Benny for the Prof of Rock episode, times have changed. I'm just not sure why anyone would choose not to believe their own eyes & ears? C'mon man.

@@billw5189 i seen an episode of professor of rock on this same thing. he did an interview with Benny Mardones and Mardones explained the lyrics and the how they wrote the song.

@@cita134 hahahahahahahahaha

Thanks for the laugh!

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that comment makes me want to marry you a little bit 😆 🤣 😂

Literally lol 😅

Now that is funny 😄 😆 🤣 😂

Lol.... Hilarious!! Good job. 😂🤣

oh wow, thats an amazing comment. hahahahah

Just died laughing

The best caption ever!

It's such a good song Until you really look at it like this fuck it still great song

But wouldn't that defeat the purpose of the song being about forbidden love (not that 16 is illegal in most places either)?

Y'all need to look up the meaning behind the song! It's not what you think!

Lighten up people. It's a beautiful song!

That’s what I was thinking. Haha he should have said 18 years old.

Fuckin ditto!!

Me too I keep watching it over and over 😮😮😮in disbelief

No kidding

@@jodysharpe719 Disbelief? Over what?

Benny explained the story behind the song maybe you should look it up

Spoiler: It's child abduction.

@@philipholmes4663 Yup, I looked it up a while ago. In the video, he rolls his eye when the "father" told him to leave her alone because she's only 16 years old. He then throws a carpet into her room through the window and starts seducing her with full-on tongue action. His story changed later on and I can see why.

He's a pedo! I would have brought my gun to that door!

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You should look into the true meaning of the song, it has nothing to do with the video.

History in context. Very important. I still love this song, because it is about unrequited love. And he sings it so beautifully. Too bad it has to be ruined by those who weren't even alive at the time.

@Unconventional Wisdom Who is your reply aimed at here? The two comments before yours don’t really warrant that kind of response.

@@amp279 Its all that is being taught in schools these days in the US. Humans generally are very shortsighted. Today everything and anyone is "creepy". Very little room or space is created for "understanding".

Looking good for your age

@True American. FYI, driven snow isn't pure anymore. "Government" destroyed that, too. It may have been pure back then, though. Lol.

@AMERICA FIRST Elvis married Priscilla at 22. They first met when he was in the army and her Father was also stationed in Germany. She was 14 then but there was no relationship.

I actually missed that part on the radio so I looked it up and... Yeah. Can I have an edited version with that part out. So he sings to a person his age

Yeah. I felt like I had to take a shower after introducing my girlfriend to this. The whole song she said "the girl is 16"

No wonder I found the video (visual) repulsive.

100% agree

@@Twinklethefox9022 I have a feeling that you think I'm saying this as a compliment to the songwriting. But I'm actually saying there is one line that took a suspicious (but still fairly harmless song) and propelled it into statutory rape...because this song is obviously trying to normalize statutory rape.

@@wfly81 why on earth would you make the assumption that this person disagrees with you

@@johnnycampos1760 I didn't assume anything. I said I have a feeling.

@@wfly81 and then proceeded to give him a lecture lmao you made an assumption

He most from France 🇫🇷 😂

BENNY SURE LOOKED A LOT YOUNGER THAN 34 I WAS THINKING MAYBE 28 BUT EITHER WAY GOOD LOOKING, INTENSE BEAUTIFUL EYES & OH MY HIS VOICE SO EXTREMELY POWERFUL & CAPTIVATING 😊

Woody Allen married the girl he raised as a daughter.

If you read about this he wrote it when he was 18 about the girl across the street

@@jeffbaker4400 NOPE. He told "The Professor of Rock" that he wrote it about a girl that lived in an apartment downstairs from his who was living with her single mother & brothers & sisters. He had moved to the apartment in 1979 with his writing partner to write songs for his upcoming 19080 album, Never Run Never Hide, & he was 33 at the time. He always felt kind of sorry for the kids, especially the 16 year old girl because she had to spend so much time taking care of her siblings while her mother worked, so he tried to help out when he could. One morning she popped up to his place while they were working on this song before leaving for school to ask about his helping her with the kids, that afternoon, & when she left, his writing partner made some lude comment about her, to which he replied that he should leave her alone because she was just 16 years old. And, that was the lyric he had been struggling with when trying to write that song. After that, everything else just fell into place rather quickly. So, there was a SEVENTEEN YEAR gap between him & the neighbor's daughter, but there wasn't ever anything between them, at least not that he admitted to.

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Good lord

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I agree... I've always lived this song and his voice

16 years old isn't really the problem. The problem is the age difference combined with that. That aside the maturity of the male and female matters too. It's worst if the male and female are immature, even if the male is just 19 or 20. And by immature I mean more a propensity for sex or intoxicants.

No need to feel guilty of this song..... My God I could listen to it over and over again.... Good music just does that to u!!!

Haha! I remember being 16 yo and feeling 20! Some good looking 20 yo guys and older!!!! Hahaha! 😌😊

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You’re definitely wrong, lol. It would fly high today.

You haven’t been watching the news.

Sad as it is Today's lyrics about women are no better So rap songs 😮

DUDE ‼️‼️😮 exactly

You got that right, he'd be branded a pedophile and his career destroyed.

This is the best comment on a video ever!!!!!

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lol

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Right.... 9 out of 10 times videos make the song better. Uhhhhhh , nope not this one . He's determined to show this little girl a love like she's never seen .......😒🙄

Omg thought the same thing LOL

For real though 😳

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Ummm yeah maybe criminal .. not sure what he was thinking .. can only hope not that ..

Creepy

Some people ...👿...celebrate perversion. ​@@brianhardy612

Back in his day 16 was oh kay. Lol

@@JM-ww5nv It's still legal in some states. 😂🤣😂

@@JM-ww5nv It clearly wasn't if people were telling him "She's just sixteen leave her alone" 😓

The guy was 33yrs old when he made the song. I used to like this song but I hear it now and it’s just disturbing and wrong!

That's the whole song, you can't get rid of that

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the best!!

I JUST BUSTED OUT HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH I THOUGHT THE EXACT SAME THING 😂😂😂😂

West Coast lmao

LOL!!!!!!!!

I haven't laughed this hard in so long.

Maybe he shouldn’t have been in the music video as a 107 year old man.

So basically he groomed her 💀 got it

Dont make excuses for sick pedophiles

Interesting

Would make more sense if he wasn't making out with her in the video.

Still your favorite even tho he wants to fly away and show a love to a 16 yr old? Wouldn't be so bad if he didn't look 28

Mine too, admittedly. But the video is the absolute worst! Most creepy. Wishing I hadn't watched it. 🙄 Cuz...ew.

Now. that I agree with.

That's what happens. Lbs.

@@richardlovelace8134 SMH. IKR?!

lol she gives it to him

Look up the video where Benny tells the story of this song. It changed my perspective of the entire song, but it's still awesome.

I heard that this was 100% not supposed to be romantic, there's an article (that I've not searched) but the lyrics and video surely don't seem platonic lol!

Still luv this song at 62 yrs old, and I still sing along with the lyrics.. wondering what took everyone so long to recognize the lyrics just to sing along with it , I used to call it the perv song then just got over it

God I love you for this comment

@@PunkMartyr Love and Respect. :) We may laugh...but we're laughing with Benny and at the vid. But noone's laughing at how well he sang. I miss his voice. Very few sing as well as he did. Many we call Legends did not have legendary voices like his. :)

I just watched this and scream laughed through it, my comment is above but your comments is PERFECT.

​@@PunkMartyr Same.

lol

Do you work at safeway cuz they play this song all the time

Lmao

I work at Kroger and I hear it a lot too. I liked it until I saw the video! 🤮

Yeah I work at Kroger to and I just showed this to my coworker. What the hell?!

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/i5mPiLBp18mrlWg.html this is a great phone interview where he explains how the song was written!...i dont know any of his other music..but this joint is classic....the video dont help the song...& those pink socks are way outta line...but i love this song! He has Parkenson's disease & is on his last days...i think hes 72 now...time stops for no one!🖤🙏🖤

Good for them

undoubtedly. I watch the Hodgeson Twins to keep my sanity. and fuck the spellcheck on this POS platform. Best Regards.

And a cell mate named bubba

@@jamesholcombe435 bahaha

@@jamesholcombe435 and some guys Footlong up your backside

As it did to each and every parent with a teen daughter in middle or high school back when it debuted LOL

Rest in peace ✌️🕊️

@@btchhopperou812 Lmmfao 😭🤣🤣

Hurts to think this song is soo damn good and terrible at same time

You like pedophile voices?

Don't worry,I feel the same way!!! But this a one of kind song

This why I always read some of the comments, some of the comments here had me in stiches.

Not much carpet on that ride

So was she for flying over the statue of liberty 🗽 on a magic carpet.

This is THE 80s!!! When people weren't ridiculous AND extremely pathetic

It's not like the lyrics are any better

Exactly. "Things you wish that you hadn't seen."

@@DEATHBYFLYINGCDSaside from that first line, and the entire video, the song is pretty great, but both of those things exists, so it’s a hard sell… If he just said 18… I think the age of Consent was 16 at the time it came out, but that was wrong also haha It’s hard to defend this song in any way

Not the kids. We thought it was just as creepy back then as now. Imagine feeling nostalgia about bypassing consent.

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ya, they were in loveee,, lol

You enjoyed

lol. cus your mind was acting like a victim back then. my uncle and aunt got married when they were 15 or 16. times change.

seven years too young for Benny.

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Dam Lin

Lol you said hard on lol

Best comments ever

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LOL, you posted "hard on"!

No. You're in denial. Wake the "F' up. You like a song written by a pedophile...period. He's literally making out with the girl in the video you dolt.

However, the video didn't do him any favors. I know the story, maybe the video should have reflected THAT.

Weird, isn't it? My oldest son's girlfriend heard the song Seventeen by Winger and was appalled, and I was thinking back remembering that when I was a kid and teenager, we had quite a few of these songs, and nobody cared then for some reason!! Our music is more explicit and nasty now, but they sure the hell know better than to sing about teenage girls! I remember skating at the skating rink, to Kiss's Christine Sixteen too. And Rick James had a song about a 17 year old girl too. Joan Jett, I love Rock and Roll, has her singing about a 17 year old boy? It's all so weird now!! And the guy in this video looks kind of old and creepy, looking in the window and such? WTF?

Oh.... I also recall when I was in high school, I had a friend that was 16, engaged to a 32 year old man, and though most of us felt he was a little old for our liking, nobody really cared? Weird stuff! But me and my boyfriend got married right out of high school at 18 years old, and I was a couple of months pregnant when we got married, but it wasn't a "shot gun," wedding, cause we had already planned to get married and I had my ring for over a year before we got married. And I was a wife and a mother totally capable of handling it all on my own. I believe a couple of decades ago, we matured way earlier because our parents didn't baby us and spoil us rotten. These days, even though an 18 year old is old enough to get married without permission, and old enough to fight and die for our country, many see them as mere children at 18 now, and not anywhere near being an adult. I remember a divorced woman that lived a few houses down from me when I was 13, would go out on weekend nights with her single mother girlfriends, and I would babysit about 5 small children, all by myself. All under 4!!!! I managed to get those kids fed, bathed, and in bed like a pro! I cannot imagine allowing a 13 year old babysit just 1 child, even if that child was 5 or over? Times have changed so much! When I was 18, not only could I totally run my house, I was able to handle the bills, checkbook and such, and budget our money. I don't support grown men, like in this video, dating teenage girls, and would have been horrified if that creature came knocking on my door to see my daughter when she was a teenager, but in other ways, we are failing our kids by not teaching them to be adults, by cooking, cleaning, managing money, etc. My 2 oldest were able to take care of themselves when they left for college, but my daughter struggles a bit still with managing her money. Not to the point of going bankrupt, just sometimes needing me to front her some money until her pay day, so it isn't causing issues really. I am guilty of handling everything almost, for my youngest 13 year old son, and need to nip my babying him in the bud. As I have gotten older, I like everything calm and don't feel like going through battles, causing me to just clean his room and bathroom instead of staying on top of him and making him do it. I believe starting today, I am going to start turning this situation around, so I don't have a 30 something year old Bernie supporting son, living in my basement!

Teddy Nugent's Jail Bait was about a 13 year old. It got radio play too.

Jon Diamond a lot of sad unfunny jokes,snickering minds,romanticism has died.

shay5839 Lol. You wrote a book! But it is true. Kids today are not mature enough to handle life on their own. Hell, some 30 year olds aren’t anymore. 🤷🏽‍♂️

Hahahaha

Haha!!!

Rappers do it willy nilly

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And they wore so much hairspray that their hair barely moved in front of industrial strength fans

But here's the thing. If you caught the guy in this video looking in your teenaged daughter's window, how would you feel? I mean, he looks forty. Seperate question: Would you want your teenaged daughter pregnant and married at sixteen? Why or why not?

Joe Sada Jr great story. You can’t fight love. Our fucked up society is so PC it’s sickening.

@@supposedto1159 Tell me about it. All these idiots freaking out as if a 16-year-old is too young and helpless to date an older man. We've broken down the race and gender barriers when it comes to relationships, yet for some reason the age barrier is thicker and stronger than ever. It's getting completely retarded at this point and I'd like to see the trend reverse.

ok but this guy is like 35

@@robertrodriguez787 Wow there's so much stupidity in that statement I won't even bother responding to it.

So you were molested at 16 by a creepy 34 year old man?

I thought the same thing all these year's and lyrics are definitely creepy hide your under age daughter alert.

Omg me too me and my mum were shocked when we found out he was white

You know deep down you're a fuckin racist right?

White?? isn't he Latino?

I know,right?!? He looks like he's mid 30s on this video.

Lol idk

We didn't have interwebz back then. Smoking was a natural response to environmental variables (e.g. Jimmy Carter).

this guy was like 30 when this somg came out.

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lol probably

No sea Tonto. Esta cancion es de profiles buscando niñas

OH MAN. T_T DUDE NO. MAN REST IN PEACE.

That 16 yr old was at the funeral singing, now you can fly, you can pick me up and take...

@Ron Thorp the pedophiles in Hollywood are anti trump 🤣

as long as that carpet don't cross state lines cause then its a federal crime

Just did the same exact thing!!! Now it #1on my play list!!!

With a 16 year old? Creepy

Lol . Thank you that is one of the funniest comments of all time.

Still it’s the law it’s fucking wrong

Love is love until your locked up forever

True but long ago young teenagers use to get married and in some cases the guy was older

Also I was barely legal and was with a man ten years older than myself. I’m 50 now

16 is the age of consent in many states. Dumbass.

Lmmfao

LOL!

Jerry Lee Lewis married a 13 year old.

Lmao

@@dianekimball6812 13 year old cousin.

Lol

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So you're a perv?

Yikes, do you realize how old he was? Major perv alert

Julia is triggered over this song lol

Molestation is romance?

@@shortietiki Nice interpretation. But, no, not that kind of 'romance,' silly willy.

Ok peterfile keep being a creep

Ummm, it was still creepy. My friends and I actually knew back then that it was wrong. You know why? Because kids dislike creepy old hamburglars no matter what decade it is.

😂😂😊😂😂😂 That's hilarious.

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Such a fricken gross song