Holy cow, all the director would have needed to do to avoid that was leave out the scene with the lockers. The actors portraying students certainly look old enough to be college students, but the lockers squelch that idea :smack:
Yep, without the lockers or school bells I would’ve assumed it’s some college.
Also, knowing that she’s a “Hollywood aged” high schooler makes Lionel’s midnight phone call at 3:40 hella creepy. The dude calls, says ‘hello,’ then promptly hangs the fuck up. 
No wonder Creepy McCreepster acting prof can’t find age appropriate women. Any girl over 20 won’t find that shit cute.
Fat Bottomed Girls by Queen has a depiction of a young boy being molested:
Left alone with big fat Fannie
She was such a naughty nanny
Great big woman
You made a bad boy out of me
Damn you! Well played!
(She was) Only Sixteen - Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show
Tonight is the Night - Betty Wright
Seventeen - Rick James
Annie,
I am the son of the man who co-wrote THIS GIRL IS A WOMAN NOW. I grew up hearing this song and many more from my dad. That lyric is about a young person losing her virginity, plain and simple. Nothing creepy or inappropriate, actually, quite beautiful. I think you read more in to the lyric then was ever intended. It happens.
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That is a cover of a Sam Cooke hit. And it is not creepy at all, since the singer is supposed to be of a similar age: “She was too young to fall in love, and I was too young to know.”
I’m not sure how trustworthy the Songfacts site is, but they quote the singer giving the background behind the song, and it’s quite innocent:
On the other hand, there’s Will Smith’s teenaged lament in Parents Just Don’t Understand: “I almost had a heart attack that day: come to find out the girl was a twelve-year-old runaway! I was arrested, the car was impounded; there was no way for me to avoid being grounded.”
Exactly- the singer wasn’t a creep trying to take advantage of an underage girl. He was 16 himself (“I was a mere child of 16”) when he fell in love with her, and he’s only supposed to be 17 now (“I’ve aged a year since then”). HE was the one who got hurt! He was the one who got his heart broken because he THOUGHT this was a true love that would last forever. In reality, she was a normal, flighty kid who wasn’t ready for anything serious or permanent.
For what it’s worth, Will was only 14-15 himself in the story. The song was released shortly after he turned 17, but the story he tells makes it pretty clear that he doesn’t have a driver’s license yet in the story’s timeframe.
Oh.
A couple of people have mentioned the Jethro Tull song Aqualung, but the second song on the album, Cross Eyed Mary, also qualifies.
“She’s a poor man’s rich girl and she’ll do it for a song” It doesn’t have anything to do with her age but I always liked that line.
The songs says “She’s laughing in the playground” but “gets no kicks from little boys.”
To me, that pretty clearly indicates she’s a schoolgirl, but has her eyes on older males.
I don’t think River Hippie was denying that the song was about a schoolgirl; just mentioning that the line he likes isn’t about her age.
Hooray for Google Alerts!
I always inferred that Mary Hill, who used to hang out in Cherry Hill Park, was high-school age when the man with money said “Come on, honey,” and she said “Okay.”
Traffic, Vagabond Virgin
I apologize, but the line “A child had died, a woman had been born” is very vaguely creepy. Does having sex turn a child into a woman?