TikTok is a social media platform where people create short videos for entertainment.
On TikTok, a new trend emerges every week. TikTok often encourages the playful and creative sides of all of its users, who then start to create new trends that spread like wildfire.
Few last trends on TikTok was Human Emotion Quiz TikTok and Mental Age Test TikTok.
Every now and again, TikTok is a buzz with new trends, and the most recent one to take over the platform is because to a song “Teenage Dirtbag” that was released in 2000.
Now, in the year 2022, people are still singing the song and reliving special moments from the past.
Wheatus’ first single, Teenage Dirtbag, is a song by the American pop rock band Wheatus going viral on TikTok.
In this article we will explain what does Teenage Dirtbag really means.
Teenage Dirtbag Meaning
“Teenage Dirtbag” refers to a rebellious. It is someone who disregards what others believe and pursues their heart.[1]
While these people may seem to others as outcasts, they are the ones that choose to disregard the norms and do what they want.
In a conversation between Daoud Tyler-Ameen and Ruston Kelly, Ruston Kelly explained[2] the meaning and said:
If we talif someone calls you a name, and then you call yourself that, you automatically have power over what that name would try to take away from you.
“Maybe I am just a confused, horny teenage piece of s*** sometimes, and that’s OK.”
Now, on TikTok, Teenage Dirtbag song caught attention of everyone. Lot of peoples making video using Teenage Dirtbag song.
In a TikTok video[3] a lady wrote, “I have a few Teenage Dirtbag pics but I think this one is best”.
Another user wrote in a TikTok video, “teenage dirtbag trend.. but w/ video instead“.
Another user wrote, “my official teenage dirtbag video.. bcz I am just A TEENAGE“.
About Teenage Dirtbag
The American rock band Wheatus has a song called “Teenage Dirtbag.” It was released on June 20, 2000, as the album’s first single under their own name (2000).
Brendan B. Brown, a guitarist and singer, was inspired to write the song by a memory from his youth.
According to Wikipedia[4],
“Teenage Dirtbag” is about a childhood experience that guitarist and vocalist Brendan B. Brown had. 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. 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.
So that’s the backdrop for that song.
Teenage Dirtbag Song Lyrics
[Harry]
Her name is Noel
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
[All]
‘Cause I’m just a teenage dirtbag baby
I’m just a teenage dirtbag baby
Listen to Iron Maiden baby with me
[Niall]
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 drives an Iroc
But he doesn’t know who I am
And he doesn’t give a damn about me
[All]
‘Cause I’m just a teenage dirtbag baby
I’m just a teenage dirtbag baby
Listen to Iron Maiden baby with me
[Zayn]
Oh, yeah, dirtbag,
No, she doesn’t know what she’s missin’
Oh, yeah, dirtbag,
No, she doesn’t know what she’s missin’
[Louis]
Man, I feel like mold
It’s prom night and I am lonely
Low and behold
She’s walking 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?
[Liam]
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
[All]
Oh, yeah dirtbag,
No, she doesn’t know what she’s missin’
Oh, yeah dirtbag,
No, she doesn’t know what she’s missin’