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Settlers: The Mythology Of The White Proletariat from Mayflower to Modern - J. Sakai 
A uniquely important book in the canon of the North American revolutionary left and anticolonial movements, Settlers was first published in the 1980s. Written by activists with decades of experience organizing in grassroots anticapitalist struggles against white supremacy, the book established itself as an essential reference point for revolutionary nationalists and dissident currents within the Marxist-Leninist and anarchist movements. Always controversial within the establishment left, Settlers uncovers centuries of collaboration between capitalism and white workers and their organizations, as well as their neocolonial allies, showing how the United States was designed from the ground up as a parasitic and genocidal entity. As recounted in painful detail by J. Sakai, the United States has been built on the theft of Indigenous lands and of Afrikan labor, on the robbery of the northern third of Mexico, the colonization of Puerto Rico, and the expropriation of the Asian working class, with each of these crimes being accompanied by violence.
The counter-revolution of 1776: slave resistance and the origins of the United States of America - Gerald Horne 
In this trailblazing book, Gerald Horne complements his earlier celebrated Negro Comrades of the Crown, by showing that in the prelude to 1776, the abolition of slavery seemed all but inevitable in London, delighting Africans as much as it outraged slaveholders, and sparking the colonial revolt. In the prelude to 1776, more and more Africans were joining the British military, and anti-slavery sentiments were deepening throughout Britain. And in the Caribbean, rebellious Africans were chasing Europeans to the mainland. Unlike their counterparts in London, the European colonists overwhelmingly associated enslaved Africans with subversion and hostility to the status quo. For European colonists, the major threat to security in North America was a foreign invasion combined with an insurrection of the enslaved. And as 1776 approached, London-imposed abolition throughout the colonies was a very real and threatening possibility--a possibility the founding fathers feared could bring the slave rebellions of Jamaica and Antigua to the thirteen colonies. To forestall it, they went to war. The so-called Revolutionary War, Horne writes, was in large part a counter-revolution, a conservative movement that the founding fathers fought in order to preserve their liberty to enslave others--and which today takes the form of a racialized conservatism and a persistent racism targeting the descendants of the enslaved. The Counter-Revolution of 1776 drives us to a radical new understanding of the traditional heroic creation myth of the United States.
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teenage dirtbag has only gotten more cringe with time
It's also really indicative of where culture was at in the 2000s that this is how the writer explains the song. Every single line in the song is about the singer's crush on some girl he's never talked to and her boyfriend. None of this satanic panic idea is in the song at all except by way of implication. The song is wholly obsessed with an objectified female character that presents herself as a prize for the singer at the end of the song despite him doing absolutely nothing and facing no hardship, the only proof of his value as a person being the fact that he liked a band that was at the time a world famous act at the peak of their popularity. Like at least the indie people pretended that they had niche non-corporate music taste!
I interpreted this part as doing something and facing hardship. He was flirting on the low and her boyfriend was shitty and bad. So she finds the freedom to express herself with the guy she actually fucks with. It implies a progression of time after she doesn't know who she is - but that was just baked in for me.
I can see that, my own reading is just that it's all going on in head