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She noted in interviews that she was raised on the wrong side of the tracks in her hometown of Wingham.

“They don’t look at women of color as vulnerable and victims. They look at us like we’re perpetrators, like we intentionally are from the wrong side of the tracks,” Martinez said.

Miske, 49, wasn’t a crime lord, but rather a “self-made man” who, despite growing up “on the wrong side of the tracks,” successfully built a family business called Kamaʻaina Termite and Pest Control, Kennedy said in his opening statement.

An overheated tragedy teeming with Morton’s sound effects and propelled by Weiss’ pleading — the producer later said, “I was asking her to be an actress, not a singer” — “Leader of the Pack” cemented the Shangri-Las’ reputation as girls from the wrong side of the tracks.

“I grew up on the wrong side of the tracks in Tucson, Ariz., but I have been around classical music my whole life,” says Contreras, 39, whose background is in classical theater and acting.