Raised in Ann Arbor, musician Andrew WK rose to fame with his 2001 hit "
Party Hard." But, before he was the big rockstar in the dirty white jeans and the greasy long hair, he was a teenager in Ann Arbor. A teenager with a crush. A teenager with a restraining order against him because of a song. He talks about it in the
Guardian. Excerpt:
I was in high school in the 1990s, in a town called Ann Arbor in
Michigan. I had a crush on a girl and was deeply and passionately
fixated on her. She had a baby face, a 14-tooth smile, large eyes, a
crowned forehead, an oversized brow and a tender style. She consumed me
with both lust and hatred – lust, because I was truly drawn to her
beauty and soft skin, and hatred because she rarely spoke to me,
wouldn't look at me much and never gave me a chance to show her my deep
affections. I used to call her house just to listen to her say, "Hello?"
Then I'd hang up, terrified and shaking with nervous ecstasy.
In
our senior year of high school, when I was 17, we were required to make a
final project which was presented to the head of the school and graded
as our final exam. This was when my crush was at its absolute height. I
decided to write a song dedicated to her and submit it as my final
project for graduation. The song was My Destiny. I've never recorded
another song like it, and now – listening to it after all these years – I
can see why.
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