Wheatus - Teenage Dirtbag Lyrics

Wheatus Lyrics

"Teenage Dirtbag"

Her name is Noelle
I have a dream about her
She rings my bell
I got gym class in half an hour
Oh, how she rocks
In Keds and tube socks
But she doesn't know who I am
And she doesn't give a damn about me

'Cause I'm just a teenage dirtbag, baby
Yeah, I'm just a teenage dirtbag, baby
Listen to Iron Maiden, baby, with me, ooh

Her boyfriend's a dick
And he brings a gun to school
And he'd simply kick
My ass if he knew the truth
He lives on my block
And he drives an IROC
But he doesn't know who I am
And he doesn't give a damn about me

'Cause I'm just a teenage dirtbag, baby
Yeah, I'm just a teenage dirtbag, baby
Listen to Iron Maiden, baby, with me, ooh

Oh, yeah, dirtbag
No, she doesn't know what she's missin'
Oh, yeah, dirtbag
No, she doesn't know what she's missin'

Man, I feel like mold
It's prom night and I am lonely
Lo and behold
She's walkin' over to me
This must be fake
My lip starts to shake
How does she know who I am?
And why does she give a damn about me?
I've got two tickets to Iron Maiden, baby
Come with me Friday, don't say maybe
I'm just a teenage dirtbag, baby, like you

Oh, yeah, dirtbag
No, she doesn't know what she's missin'
Oh, yeah, dirtbag
No, she doesn't know what she's missin'...

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Thanks to Zoya =), Lee Vise, Andy McCullough, Ella, Gisela Nava for correcting these lyrics.

Writer(s): Brendan Brown

"Teenage Dirtbag" is the debut single by Wheatus. The song and its music video were released on the 20th of June, 2000. The visual, directed by Jeff Gordon, features actors Jason Biggs and Mena Suvari in their roles from the film "Loser" on which the video is based.

Frontman Brendan B. Brown told Tone Deaf in an interview about the inspiration behind this song's chorus, "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."

The song became viral on TikTok in 2022, thanks to the "Teenage Dirtbag" trend with people sharing throwback photos of their ridiculous moments using a sped-up, nightcore version of the song.

album: "Wheatus" (2000)

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