He managed to get _legal guardianship_ of a 16 yo girl when he was 20 something.
> Misley’s suit directly references Tyler’s memoir, in which he recalled he “almost took a teen bride” and that the underage girl’s parents “signed a paper over for me to have custody, so I wouldn’t get arrested if I took her out of state. I took her on tour with me.”
I'm not a Tyler fan and know very little about his work other than the Aerosmith Collab with Run DMC, but I've always thought that song had very suspect lyrics, literally invoking the idea of sex with school girls.
There's so many failures of reasonable behavior to unpack here. I understand that times have changed, but I can't see how anybody ever thought any of this was OK. Even Walk This Way, it's very clear what the song is about. Don't care how catchy it may be.
I can only conclude that most people either don't really listen to the lyrics of something, or they can't actually process what they mean.