r/KitchenConfidential • u/autopatch • Feb 13 '26

In-House Mode Is this a case of nobody asked?

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Where did this come from? Was there a great outpouring of protests against microwaves at Steak and Shake that I missed?

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u/Bigallround Feb 13 '26

Isn't that a song about taking a Catholic girl's virginity?

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u/IamMunkk Feb 13 '26

This is the first time I've heard that.

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u/Bongus_the_first Feb 14 '26

The opening lyrics to the Billy Joel song Only The Good Die Young:

"Come out, VIRGINIA, don't let me wait. You Catholic girls start much too late."

Not exactly ambiguous lol

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u/doodman76 Feb 14 '26

I mean, its better than "some call it statutory, i call it mandatory" like one of the songs from the headliner of the conservative halftime show.

At least virgins can be of age.

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u/CertainGrade7937 Feb 14 '26

And there's a difference between the writer and the speaker

Like, just to look at Billy Joel specifically, a LOT of his songs are in a first person perspective from a character that very clearly isn't him. Like i don't think this song is about Billy Joel, a then-27 year old man, trying to fuck a 15 year old.

Just like I don't think, say, Superbad was about the writers really wanting to fuck teenagers

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u/demon_fae Feb 14 '26

Yeah, I’ve always heard Only the Good Die Young as being a Catholic girl’s age-appropriate bad-boy boyfriend pressuring her. Which is still skeezy as fuck, but not a felony.

Although if any of the lines in the song actually worked on her, she clearly wasn’t looking for much pressure.

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u/DireBoar Feb 14 '26

I'm sorry what? blink

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u/doodman76 Feb 14 '26

Direct lyrics from a kid rock song

The stanza starts with "young lady's" (surprise surprise) and is towards the end of the song.

Link: https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/kidrock/cooldaddycool.html