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* [[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/]
** The ABBA [[Jukebox Musical]] ''[[Mamma Mia!]]'' [[Inverted Trope|inverts the trope]] by having aan older ladywoman singing this song to a younger man.
* [[Joan Jett]], anyone? In her signature song, "I Love Rock and Roll", she declares "I knew he musta been about seventeen." Joan was 21 when she first covered the song on a recording.
 
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