Meet The King Teen
The Story
The King Teen, the singinest songmakerupper in Durham North Carolina, was born in a taxi speeding across the California desert, though nobody knows why. It's been more of the same ever since, but along the way he's made up some songs that people like. Just not anybody you know. A zine once reviewed a record by his band The Smokejumpers: "This is better'n s----in' on the clock." The King Teen has been trying to live up to that ever since.
The Songs
The King Teen makes up songs about dancing bears, neighborly elephants and dead malls. His latest single, Shark Week (Person Woman Man Camera TV), released July 8, 2024, answers the musical question "I say, ‘What would happen if the boat sank from its weight, and you’re in the boat, and you have this tremendously powerful battery, and the battery’s now underwater, and there’s a shark that’s approximately 10 yards over there?’ By the way, a lot of shark attacks lately, do you notice that?"