Is "Cradle Of Love" by Billy Idol actually a really dodgy song?

 

YouTube autoplay brought me to this song tonight, I hadn't even thought about it in years.

This song is dead suspicious. I think it's a celebration of underage sex. Though it's from 1990, it's got an older 1950s kind of feeling to it. It's got "Cradle" in the title, as in, what babies sleep in. "Robbing the cradle" is what people say about age gap romances, so it seems like a pun on that.

"It burned like a ball on fire / When the rebel took a little child bride" - I think this is a reference to Jerry Lee Lewis, whose big hit was Great Balls Of Fire. He married his cousin when she was 13 years old.

It also contains the words "flesh for your Romeo", and one of the main things people always like to bring up about Romeo & Juliet is that Juliet was also 13 years old.

Then the rest of the song is all like wey-hey I had sex.

Conclusion: This song is dodgy as fuck.