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* "Christine Sixteen" by [[Kiss]] is about an older man who becomes infatuated with a sixteen year old girl. Because of the controversial subject matter many radio stations refused to play the song when it was released in 1977.
* [[Winger|Winger's]] most popular song, "Seventeen", is about a man who meets a woman he is intensely attracted to, and his surprise when she tells him "I'm only seventeen."
* ''[[wikipedia:Hot Child in the City|Hot Child in the City]]'' (1978) by [[wikipedia:Nick Gilder|Nick Gilder]] is about child prostitution: "I've seen a lot of young girls, 15 and 16, walking down Hollywood Boulevard with their pimps. Their home environment drove them to distraction so they ran away, only to be trapped by something even worse."
* [[ABBA]]. ''[[wikipedia:Does Your Mother Know|Does Your Mother Know]]''?
** Inspired, according to Björn Ulvaeus, by a newspaper article. “It was most likely about predatory older men using younger women, and I had the idea of reversing the situation and creating a song about a man who, instead of trying to pick up a girl, turns round and says, ‘Oh, what are you doing out tonight, does your mother know that you’re out?’”[https://abbasite.com/articles/does-your-mother-know-the-anatomy-of-a-hit-single/]
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