Wheatus: how we made Teenage Dirtbag
Posted by The Editor on May 22, 2019 5:04 am
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‘I wanted it to sound like Metallica and AC/DC from the waist up and Public Enemy from the waist down’
I’d had the riff in my head since college. I wrote Teenage Dirtbag lying on a futon staring at the ceiling in a rented apartment on Long Island, New York. The song is fictional, but has a bit of scenery from my childhood.