Olivia Nuzzi's "Jailbait": An "Outrageous" but "Undeniably Infectious" Song

In a previous post, we related that when Olivia Nuzzi, the former Vanity Fair editor, was an 18-year-old student at Middletown High in New Jersey, she initiated an age-gap affair with 52-year-old Keith Olbermann, the former MSNBC host. Nuzzi was 25 when she began dating her future fiancé, 44-year-old journalist Ryan Lizza, a current CNN analyst. Nuzzi was 30 when she began a “digital affair” with 60-year-old Robert F. Kennedy Jr.. And when Nuzzi was 16, with the stage name Livvy, she recorded “Jailbait".

In the first verse, Nuzzi sang about the undeniable allure of a nymphet, and she shared that she was shameless; however, she warned that an age-gap affair with a 16-year-old could get a man 20 years in jail.

Verse:

Bad things happen when you hear my name

Deny your attraction - but I've got no shame

Sixteen will get you twenty, I've got you locked for life

Don't even think about it, because baby I'm

However, in the pre chorus, she warned men that after being with her, they’ll desire more.

Pre Chorus:

Not your girlfriend

Not the girl next door

Not your girlfriend

I'll give you just enough and leave you wanting more

The 16-year-old sang in the chorus that despite being jailbit, she was irresistible, but warned men that they could look at her but not “play” with her.

Chorus:

Jailbait

I'm jailbait

You try to stay away, but you can't obey

Jailbait

I'm jailbait

You look, but you can't play

Cause I'm jailbait

Ja-ja-ja-ja-jaibait

Ooh, they call me jailbait

In the second verse, Nuzzi sang about the precariousness of “craving sin” (i.e., craving sex with jailbait), which she referred to as an “illegal dream”, and she warned about the potential inability to resist a “teenage queen”.

Verse:

Craving sin, we walk a fine line

A game I win, that word I define

A teenage queen, right in front of you

Illegal dream, killer to pursue

In the bridge, she serenaded that bad things happen to men whom prey upon and “lust criminally” after jailbait, which she, once again, described as an “irresistible” conundrum.

Bridge:

Bad things happen to those who (pray) prey

A basic instinct to die another day

Sixteen will get you twenty, lust criminally

Irresistible, that's why they call me…

In a press release for the “Jailbait”, Nuzzi described the song as: "Offensive", "vapid", "frothy", "bubblegum", "outrageous", "morally bankrupt", and "undeniably infectious". In addition, Nuzzi related that “Jaiilbait” is about “underaged, hyper-sexualized girl[s] in society” whom take semi-nude selfies. Nuzzi wrote that the “sexy” song is about the “obsession with youth and beauty”, which she condoned. And she confessed that she’s the embodiment of jailbait. Nuzzi:

“Jailbait” is about the role of the underaged, hyper-sexualized girl in society. That girl who takes half naked photos of herself in the mirror with her camera phone. It's about pornographic ideals infiltrating our collective consciousness — this obsession with youth and beauty. I'm not saying that any of this is wrong, I'm simply stating that it is. This song is me coming to a societal realization."

And simply put, I am the definition of jailbait.

On her MySpace page, Nuzzi posted that as a 16-year-old singer/songwriter of songs like “Jailbait”, she planned to invade the listener’s consciousness and their worlds. Nuzzi:

Livvy (Olivia Nuzzi) is the future, and Livvy is the past. Preparing to dominate the world and show you the way a pop object lives. Livvy has no off switch, and life is a performance in her eyes. This sixteen year old singer/songwriter plans to invade your consciousness with her killer pop hooks and become the center of your world.

Lastly, Nuzzi’s album was planned to be a “conceptual expansion on "Jailbait", which “explore[d] the good and the bad of this all-consuming porniness”. Porniness?