![]() ![]() The song's vocals are all performed by Brown, including the segment in a high-pitched falsetto voice (meant to emulate a female singer). So that story is still the same for people, even if it's thirty years after I went through it." 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. 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." 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. 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. 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. 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. It starts with the protagonist longing for a girl who does not love him back. ![]() ![]() "Teenage Dirtbag" is about a childhood experience that guitarist and vocalist Brendan B. Brown had. ![]()
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