Gen Z finds Uptown Girl to be sinister

Old "story" from January

Don't introduce them to that Benny Mardones song. They might die on the spot.

Many Gen Zers haven't recovered from Hot Child in the City.

Rachel Zegler should perform it.

This is why we hate them. Plain and simple.

Gen Zs are mostly shrieking, paranoid virgins.

I avoid their weirdness as much as possible.

Gen Z apparently can’t even make contact, according to this week’s zeitgeist.

One step at a time.

Where in the song does it say the woman is underage or even younger than the man?

It has to be exhausting looking for reasons to be offended 24/7 and then feeling the deluded need to share these meaningless observations to the world for cheap attention.

And, of course, carrying that giant, woke chip on your shoulder all the time.

The only song I could actually encourage Gen-Zers to feel offended about is the utterly annoying "You're Beautiful" by James Blunt.

To be fair, the premises of this post really only involves one young chick and her two friends, and so it's kind of a stretch to say most of them feel this way. I doubt most of them even know this song. Although yes, many of them are prudish and constantly offended, so, who knows.

Gen Z is so very right!

I mean… just appreciate Billy’s songwriting and the harmonies.

I know it’s not ART like Doechii singing over a 15-year-old karaoke track, but still…

Yeah, THAT'S the Billy Joel song about grooming...

Don't they also find Baby, It's Cold Outside sinister?

I worked with a Gen Z woman a few years ago. You couldn't talk, around her. She was friendly, then she would turn argumentative when anyone mentioned anything she interpreted as being offensive (not offensive to her, personally--I mean socially offensive--sexist, stuff like that). Everyone had to walk on egg shells.

I'm not seeing in OP's story why this exactly Gen Z person took offense at the song, let alone that they thought it was about "grooming."

This article has basically no info and doesn’t even imply the song offended these kids. Actually, it seems like they were making fun of how annoying and shitty it is. They’re right. This is one of the worst songs of all time.