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I haven’t even listened to the podcast yet, but that’s a wickedly clever title!
“She was too young to fall in love, and I was too young to know” is a lyric from a Sam Cooke song, and the narrator of the song is around the same age as the girl when the relationship discussed takes place. As noted, this was not a “Lolita song” at all but a song written about adolescent love and performed, I believe, in the 1950s. That’s, therefore, an absolutely horrible example for any point Podhoretz was making about pop culture’s endorsement of anything predatory. Other examples are fine, but sometimes accuracy is at least a little important.
The best of this genre is also a spoof of this genre (and featuring friend of Ricochet Harry Shearer):
Jumping up to Hey Nineteen was weird. Those older songs have nothing to do with sex. The mentioning of their age doesn’t make them so. McCartney wrote I saw Her Standing There when he was 20.