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It's Adam Levine!

Posted on Jul 19th 2012 3:45PM by Sarah Chazan
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As the tattooed frontman of Maroon 5, Adam Levine is the epitome of cool. But during his time at the Brentwood School in Los Angeles, the singer reveals he was anything but Mr. Popular! "I was very uncool, had disgusting long hair and shorts down to [to my knees], cut off shorts -- I desperately wanted to be Eddie Vedder from Pearl Jam really badly, and I was just a nerdy, awkward kid and I was obsessed with music," Levine tells Access Hollywood. "And eventually, once I realized that singing was something that girls like, which I didn't know about really, [it became], just kind of 'Wow... Oh my God, girls like this! I'm shocked!' So I kept doing it -- maybe for that reason (laughs)."


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