Adam Levine and More Stars Who Were Nerds in High School
Check out these music stars when they were nerdy in high school. Take note, you aspiring music superstars: Just because you’re a nerd doesn’t mean you won’t make it big. By Nina Hämmerling SmithBefore he transformed himself into the transgressive musician/performance-art entity known as Marilyn Manson, Brian Warner was just a regular kid from Ohio. In his autobiography, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell, Manson writes, “Most of my education took place after class, when I escaped into a fantasy world immersed in role-playing games” like Dungeons & Dragons. While studying journalism and writing about music in college, he generated the identity of Marilyn Manson by combining two American icons: Marilyn Monroe and Charles Manson. And he’s been messing with images of gender, beauty, and violence ever since in songs like “The Dope Show” and goth-gangsta in “Tainted Love.” His last album, Born Villain, came out in May 2012.