Catholic School Girls Rule

Catholic School Girls Rule

Red Hot Chili Peppers

The song is inspired by the repeated statutory rape of a 14-year-old girl who attended a local Catholic school. Singer Anthony Kiedis encountered her backstage at a concert and started a relationship with her, even taking her on tour in order to continue to have sex with her (despite having found out her age). He eventually returned her home after discovering her father was a police chief.

Kiedis talks about this in his autobiography, Scar Tissue:

“Once I got into the shower, she immediately went into an impeccable rendition of Marilyn singing ‘Happy Birthday Mr. President’ to JFK. I got out of that shower ready to go. She immediately threw off her clothes and we made love on the floor. I had known the girl for 5 minutes, but I was certain of my affection for her. We spent the night together and I found out more about her, including the fact that she went to Catholic school. (She would be the inspiration for a later song, Catholic School Girls Rule).

The next day we drove to Baton Rouge, and of course she came with us. After we got offstage, she came up to me and said, ‘I have something to tell you. My father’s the chief of police and the entire state of Louisiana is looking for me because I’ve gone missing. Oh and besides that, I’m only fourteen.’ I wasn’t incredibly scared, because in my somewhat deluded mind, I knew that if she told the chief of police she was in love with me, he wasn’t going to have me taken out to a field and shot, but I did want to get her the hell back home right away. So we had sex one more time, and she gave me an interesting compliment that I never forgot. She said, “When you
make love to me, it’s like you’re a professional.” I told her that she should give herself a little time and she’d realize that it was because she didn’t have much to compare it to. And I put her on a bus and sent her back to New Orleans."

The song has only been played live four times since 1987 and was last played on May 5, 2007.