Now Andreaa is back from her holiday in Turkey the old disagreements return. Davidd and Andreaa both want to pick their own songs for our Sunday Music feature and it is getting to be a deadlock. They both have such different tastes in music so this week I said you must pick something you both like or else forget it. After much deliberation they both agreed on a classic from 2000.
“Teenage Dirtbag” is a song by the rock band Wheatus. It was released in July 2000 as the lead single from their eponymous debut album. The song was written by guitarist and vocalist Brendan B. Brown and was inspired by a childhood experience of his.
In a 2012 interview with Tone Deaf, he said: “It came from the summer of 1984 on Long Island, when I was 10 years old. That summer in the woods behind my house, there was a Satanic, drug-induced ritual teen homicide that went down; and the kid who did it was called Ricky Kasso, and he was arrested wearing an AC/DC T-shirt. That made all the papers, and the television, obviously; and here I was, 10 years old, walking around with a case full of AC/DC and Iron Maiden and Metallica – and all the parents and the teachers and the cops thought I was some kind of Satan worshipper. So that’s the backdrop for that song.” Brown also added that the song’s sing-along chorus remains an act of defiance: “So when I sing: ‘I’m just a teenage dirtbag’, I’m effectively saying: ‘Yeah, fuck you if you don’t like it. Just because I like AC/DC doesn’t mean I’m a devil worshipper, and you’re an idiot.’ That’s where it comes from.”
In the same interview, regarding the possible reasons for its continued success, Brown recalled his father’s words: “Every teenager has to go through that ‘being an outsider’ thing, at least a little bit. So that story is still the same for people, even if it’s thirty years after I went through it.”
The music video for the song is based on the 2000 film Loser, which the song features in, and tells a different story from the film based on the song’s lyrics. Jason Biggs plays a nerdy character and Mena Suvari is the love interest who unexpectedly invites the protagonist to an Iron Maiden concert, and in the end scene they dance together on Prom Night.
In some cases, the beginning and the end of the video were deleted: The full version of the video begins with Jason falling asleep while doing his homework and ends with a large glitter ball falling from the ceiling and striking him on the head. He then wakes up, revealing his brief romance with Suvari to have been all a dream.
Enjoy…
Wheatus – Teenage Dirtbag.
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It is actually Brendan’s birthday today. Happy Birthday dude.
Mena Suvari is so pretty in this video/film.
What does he want with that girl when he has his pie?
Just listened to this and discovered I knew all the words! I am shocked.
Dang is she pretty!
Why don’t they make films like this and American Pie any more?
I never knew the whole thing was a dream. My whole life has been a lie.
Why do American schools always look better than ours?
Any banters about?
I’ve been rocking to this song for 20 years… not so much of a teenage dirtbag anymore?
When you put a movie on for the kids but they get bored after 10 minutes & you end up watching it by yourself. That.
Remember when MPs resigned for being incompetent or getting caught doing something dodgy? Good times!
Before girls needed lip, nose, cheek, surgery with breast, butt, hip augmentation and 2lbs of make up to be considered attractive. Simpler times!
Stop showing videos that turn me into a big fanny and get me all emotional.
6 is missing 2 of his front teeth now. I think it’s a plan to get the Tooth Fairy to pay for FIFA21.
farts will never not be funny Idc
This song never gets old!
Not a teenager anymore but still a dirtbag.
Absolute belter!
Uuuurgh morning
Gloria Glover loves Kate and even lets her groom her without complaining. GG has changed so much since she’s been living with us at the allotments. I wonder if Ken knows? He would be so happy if he did.
See, I just don’t know where it stops. Where is the line between food and insect?
“Come on,” said Rabbit. “I know it’s this way.”
Ten minutes later they stopped again.
“It’s very silly,” said Rabbit, “but just for the moment I – Ah, of course. Come on… Here we are…No, we’re not… It’s a funny thing how everything looks the same in a mist.”
France gets bolshy and wants more fish – which will result in no-deal and they’ll get none!
Joe ‘Chippy Tits’ Anderson is a Tory
Pass it on
How many local lockdown’s constitute a national lockdown?
Rolf report 12 Oct
My campus mom Dr Claudia has positioned my cat bed under the lamp. So now I get a comfy place to sleep, a view of the garden with all the little critters moving around & some lovely direct heat, all at the same time. It’s a multi-sensory cat experience.
Rolf x
Good morning to everyone apart from those who grew a goatie beard to try to detract from going bald.
Fuckin’ rain is in the forecast today so you might want to grab a fuckin’ brolly before you head out!
So if you come into contact of the virus, you have to stay off work for two weeks, and a lot of companies is without pay. If you’re having to chose between spreading the virus or feeding your kids what you doing? You’re a fucking joke Boris Johnson!!
Camels have been around for years. The ships of the desert, that’s what they’re known as. We ended up with the Titanic.
Booked to go n get me hair cut before that goes pair shaped!
We can’t even get a Flu Vaccine – what hope is there for a Covid jab?
How did Lois Lane not spot Clark was really superman tho?
Superman combs his hair the opposite way to Clark and doesn’t wear glasses, how could anyone tell?
“Why? Z! The Monkeys Dead,
Died Last Night With A Pain In His Head.”
That Was My Nan Everytime I Asked ‘Why’..
People at work are still falling for my ‘gaffer wants you in the office mate’ joke. Love the brains of these people.
im going for a nap before shaqs wakes up.
Bitches who do anal with no lube deffo can’t have solid shits must just come out like piss!
I’m awake!!
Jesus, it’s only Monday!
ffs
My pal just said to me everyone needs to catch Corona and then that’s it done. Eh I think the fuck not ya eejit, I don’t want to be picking out coffins ya prick feck off! What stupid shit to say.
Good morning, weirdos. Happy Monday. May you all find something, anything, that brings a smile to your face today.
Boris Johnsons got nits!
I’m bored outta my fucking head.
This Covid business is driving mad.
Don’t wanna work just want some affection on the couch.
The virus knows if your in a food based pub now!
HERE ARE THE NEW COVID RESTRICTIONS:
TIER 1 :
WHATEVER YOU’RE DOING, YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG, BUT KEEP DOING IT.
TIER 2 :
YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG, STOP DOING THAT AND START DOING OTHER THINGS WRONG INSTEAD.
TIER 3 :
YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG, PLEASE RETRAIN AS A BALLET DANCER.
Can’t believe I’m single and still getting cheated on.
I still feel like a proper ming wearing my regular mask yeno so hats off to those who are floating round the asda with stuff like YNWA or UP THE TOFFEES on theirs an that.
Christopher Columbus Day in The States but let us
all celebrate him across the world by doing what he did:
Just walk into someone’s house and say, ‘I f*ckin live here now’ and murder the occupants!
History is written by the victors and always distorted…hero??!!
MY ARSE!!
fuck boris and fuck the government.
Liverpool going into Lockdown again. Shit this.
I fucking hate “Liverpool City Region”
Looks like it’s a Tier 2 lockdown then. Ah well, least Cheryl won’t be able to come round every night to eat me out of house and bloody home.