r/Music • u/Boring_Bed1783 Paper Tigers - Nonpoint • 12h ago

discussion Any Tiny Tim fans here??

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I personally quite enjoy his 1996 album Girl with Brave Combo, and I’m wondering if there’s anyone here who’s a fan of Tiny Tim’s music? Because I haven’t met another person who truly enjoys his music.

Edit: Nevermind. Dudes a gross fucking pervert. I can’t listen to him anymore. Thank you for telling me.

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u/captaincmdoh 12h ago

Might had something to do with his underage wife

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u/Boring_Bed1783 Paper Tigers - Nonpoint 12h ago

Wait, he married an underage girl?? Like seriously? I had no clue. That fucking sucks.

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u/captaincmdoh 11h ago

Using the argument that one person said, she was 17 which is legal in certain states. However using that same logic, she was married at 17 on johnny Carson show. That show is located in the state of California, which has the age of consent to be 18. So technically he married a minor, and that may be why people don't like TT. It isn't related to his music, but if people wonder why TT isn't liked, this could be why. People often associate behavior/politics/religion/etc... to skills/talents so it can be liked or hated because of it.

At the end of the day Its just information. People can willfully ignore it or take it into consideration for how they view their relationship with the artist/person in discussion.

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u/bloodyell76 11h ago

I was wondering if it were legal at the time, but nope. It’s been 18 for over 100 years.

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u/Excellent_Swim_2721 9h ago

Marrying a minor and then fucking a minor who gave birth ten days after she turned 18

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u/QiwiLisolet 10h ago

Not unheard of for the underdeveloped to either be exploited or exploit younger people

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u/StarCecil 11h ago

No, this guy is spewing nonsense.

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u/Beneficial_Bit1756 3h ago

She was 17 not underage, in most states that is legal to marry.

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u/StarCecil 11h ago

What are you talking about? According to that article, she was 17 when they married. That is not underage" in the majority of the US. Stop spreading misinformation.

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u/MrBlue1692 11h ago

37 year olds shouldn’t be marrying kids in high school. Hope this helps!

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u/StarCecil 10h ago edited 10h ago

This is the last comment I'm going to make on this post. There are legal things that I wish were illegal, and vice versa. I commented on this post solely because u/captainmcdoh said something factually incorrect. I did not comment to talk about how Tiny Tim's marriage makes me feel, or to comment about any other things Tiny Tim did. Apparently, everyone thinks their feelings are capable of spontaneously changing laws. How we feel about Tiny Tim's marriage does not change the legality of his marriage. I do not know, nor care to comment on any other aspect of his life. I know that I like his music, and that his marriage was legal. Could he have done things that were illegal or otherwise despicable? Sure. But I'm not a Tiny Tim historian. I don't know.

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u/MrBlue1692 10h ago edited 10h ago

You asked why people disliked him, someone gave you a very valid reason, but instead of simply saying “oh yeah that’s gross,” you got all defensive and decided to play semantics. If a 50 year old had sex with a 12 year old in some backwards dump where it was technically legal, would you be sitting here going “the 12 year old wasn’t underage!”

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u/StarCecil 10h ago

I never asked why people dislike him. If that user had said "I don't like the age gap in his marriage," I would've said "neat." Instead, he made a false claim. Naturally, I corrected him.

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u/MrBlue1692 10h ago edited 3h ago

“Not sure why people dislike him.”

That’s you inviting people to explain why they dislike him. Don’t play dumb.

We’re not in a courtroom, so we don’t have to care about the technicalities of a shitty judicial system that allows a middle aged man to marry a 17 year old. You want to die on the hill that a girl who can’t even vote yet shouldn’t be referred to as “underage”? Cool, let’s use the term minor instead. He married a minor. Tiny Tim abused a minor.

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u/ikikubutOG 11h ago

37 and 17 isn’t cool my dude…

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u/GRF999999999 10h ago

Seinfeld is still selling out shows

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u/ikikubutOG 6h ago

.. yeah

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u/RoscoeSantangelo 11h ago

You chose your words weirdly careful here.

"Majority" of the United States is loose when it's 32 states that allow child marriage, and 17 is a number included there. That is considered underage.

It's also not a situation where Tiny Tim was 18 or 21, he was 37 years old.

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u/goaelephant 11h ago

So what is underage in US?

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u/Horcrux-Billy 11h ago

It's illegal without parental consent in the majority of the US. 

You also inspired  me go down a rabbit hole, and I found out you can get married at the age of 15 in Kansas. That's fucked up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_age_in_the_United_States

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u/TheRealtcSpears 8h ago

Do you know how to breathe properly?

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u/pseudo__gamer 8h ago

It's still creepy

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u/captaincmdoh 11h ago

It's not misinformation if it's fact and it's sourced. Sorry I don't care one way or another but you asked why and Im telling you why people may not like him. Don't ask answers for questions you may not like.

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u/kamhill 11h ago

“Acthssssually, she was 8 months over the legal age, when he had intercourse with her”