TEEKS is back with his first single in two years, and things are a little different.
TEEKS today released “My Boy”, a sensual and playful song that opens an exciting new chapter for the Māori soul artist.
“My Boy” is supremely vulnerable, TEEKS challenging ideas and expectations around queerness and sexual identity.
“I was doing sessions back to back and got tired of explaining or correcting people on my sexuality,” he explains. “It got to a point where I would just go with whatever people assumed so that I could just get through it.
“Eventually, I started to feel disingenuous and so when I did the session with M Basa and Josh Fountain I thought fuck it. It’s now or never. I got into the vocal booth and didn’t hold anything back.”
The accompanying music video, directed by TEEKS and longtime collaborator Ray Edwards, matches the song’s tenderness with a visual world of queerness and homoeroticism. Like the song, the clip challenges ideas and expectations around masculinity, manhood, and sexual fluidity within Polynesian/POC communities (watch above).
TEEKS may not have released any new music in 2025, but he did feature in not one but two major Rolling Stone AU/NZ lists last year.
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First, we named Something to Feel (2021) as one of the Best New Zealand Albums of the 2020s So Far, writing that his “voice could lift just about anything, and his long-awaited debut delivered on that.”
We then included “Remember Me”, a standout track on that album, in our Best Australian & New Zealand Songs of the 21st Century So Far countdown.
TEEKS won Best New Artist at the inaugural Rolling Stone New Zealand Awards in 2022, despite facing strong competition from CHAII, TE KAAHU, There’s a Tuesday, and more.
The aforementioned Something to Feel topped the charts in Aotearoa in 2021, earning TEEKS a nomination for Album of the Year at the 2021 Aotearoa Music Awards.
TEEKS’ My Boy is out now.
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