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Close Out Pride With Peach PRC’s Cover of ‘Teenage Dirtbag’
Peach PRC dropped a cover of Wheatus’ “Teenage Dirtbag” as part of the Spotify Singles series. The song is more political when sung by a woman, and with the “bringing a gun to school” line intact in 2022. Phoebe Bridgers has also covered the song.

Close Out Pride With Peach PRC’s Cover of ‘Teenage Dirtbag’

As if to say “Bye, gay!” Spotify has released a cover of Wheatus’ “Teenage Dirtbag” by Peach PRC, with a little over a day of Pride Month left to go. And this time, the dirtbag in question is a girl. Australian pop girlie/TikTok sensation Peach PRC changes no pronouns in the song and keeps the line about the boyfriend bringing a gun to school. This intrinsically ups the political quotient of the song for 2022, when guns seem to have more rights than gays in schools. The song is paired with a series of mixes for Peach PRC’s single “God is a Freak,” which has become a handy piece of rhetorical art at protests.

This is not the first cover of “Teenage Dirtbag” to merit some journalistic inquiry. Phoebe Bridgers did a version. Wheatus rerecorded the song themselves, Taylor Swift-style, after losing control of their masters. Peach PRC’s version is a spiritual sister to that other millennial cover of the summer, Muna’s version of “Sometimes” by Britney Spears for Fire Island.

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