What was teenage dirtbag based on

I was intensely lonely as a teenager — sometimes I would play guitar for 14 hours a day. But I had ideas about what a social life was like. I was sort of watching out of the window. And I sang both the male and female parts because, when I was getting beat up, a lot of bullies were homophobic. I wanted to irritate them by putting on a female voice.

We went back to the drawing board many times. Brendan and I were two weirdos who found each other. He played me Teenage Dirtbag on acoustic guitar and I knew immediately that it had the potential to reach a big audience. Because of this, Weezer began covering the song during live shows in , including an official live bootleg from The Weezer Cruise in So that's the backdrop for that song. Wheatus has six members in the band; the current band members are Brendan B. The band was formed in by lead singer Brendan B.

Brendan Brown , lead singer of the band Wheatus, recently spent two years re-recording his hit song Teenage Dirtbag after the masters went missing.

Below are the 11 top-selling one-hit wonders of all time, ranked by how many times platinum their singles went: Desiigner, "Panda" — 5x platinum. Passenger, "Let Her Go" — 6x platinum. Survivor, "Eye of the Tiger" — 8x platinum. Blind Melon - 'No Rain' The Knack - 'My Sharona' Soft Cell - 'Tainted Love' Big Country - 'In a Big Country' Feeling whole, one song at a time, is really nice.

Brendan Brown remains grateful for his sole blockbuster hit. Instead of growing resentful of being what many would call a one-hit wonder, Brown has embraced its longevity. Very lucky that way. Still, he finds it strange that a song written about his own teenage despair has become part of a collective generational consciousness. I just watched out the window as the rest of the kids toilet-papered and egged our house.

You develop ideas in solitude that can be destructive, incredibly destructive, and can also lead you to be skeptical of herd mentality and groupthink. Still, last September, Brown attempted to crowdsource its origin, offering an engineering credit for anyone who could track it down. He was unsuccessful, and ended up having to attempt to reproduce the sound on his own. How do we do it? We got the first verse right, and the third verse wrong, so we had to start the transposing process all over again.

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