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https://routenote.com/radar/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Teenage-Dirtbag.jpg1280720“Teenage Dirtbag” is about being labelled an outsider and deciding to own the label. The prom story itself is fictional. Noelle is fictional. The fantasy ending is fictional. But the emotion underneath it came from something real. Wheatus frontman Brendan B. Brown grew up in Long Island during the 1980s at a time when heavy-metal fans could be treated with suspicion by adults caught up in the era’s “Satanic panic”. Brown loved AC/DC and Iron Maiden. To some of the authority figures around him, that was apparently enough to mark him as a “dirtbag”. Is “Teenage Dirtbag” based on a...