

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. He told Tone Deaf: "It came from the summer of 1984 on Long Island, when I was 10 years old. The origins of the song come from a grisly murder that took place when Boyd was a child, involving an older child that had bullied him. Why is bongo drummer and turntablist Peter McCarrick Brown shaking a banana and an apple? Not a fucking clue, but he looks very pleased with himself. Something that’s kind of strange is that the video and song are very much about being in high school, while the film is set in college and Biggs and Suvari are in their twenties. THAT IS SO MANY THINGS WITH ‘AMERICAN’ IN THE TITLE. Mena Suvari only appeared in three of the American Pie films (missing the third one) but made up for it by also starring in American Beauty and American Virgin, as well as two seasons of American Horror Story, comedy series American Woman and a guest appearance on American Ninja Warrior. It’s got an umlaut, so is very slightly metal. Noëlle is a French name that means Christmas. Commack, as seen on his shirt, is a small town in Long Island that features heavily in follow-up single Wannabe Gangstar. The band has toured with umpteen different lineups with Brown (known as BBB to hardcore Wheatus fans) as the one constant. Brown, the only remaining founding member and sole songwriter of Wheatus. More recently, he played the absolute worst character in Orange Is The New Black. Jason Biggs is best known for appearing in the four American Pie films as Jim, the main character and pastry-enterer.
