{"id":2476362,"date":"2026-06-26T05:51:57","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T05:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2476362"},"modified":"2026-06-26T05:51:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T05:51:57","slug":"teeks-returns-with-powerful-new-single-my-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/teeks-returns-with-powerful-new-single-my-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"TEEKS Returns with Powerful New Single &#8216;My Boy&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>TEEKS is back with his first single in two years, and things are a little different.<\/p>\n<p>TEEKS today released \u201cMy Boy\u201d, a sensual and playful song that opens an exciting new chapter for the M\u0101ori soul artist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy Boy\u201d is supremely vulnerable, TEEKS challenging ideas and expectations around queerness and sexual identity.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI was doing sessions back to back and got tired of explaining or correcting people on my sexuality,\u201d he explains. \u201cIt got to a point where I would just go with whatever people assumed so that I could just get through it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cEventually, I started to feel disingenuous and so when I did the session with M Basa and Josh Fountain I thought fuck it. It\u2019s now or never. I got into the vocal booth and didn\u2019t hold anything back.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"op-interactive\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"TEEKS - My Boy (Official Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hAQlsFPvhSY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The accompanying music video, directed by TEEKS and longtime collaborator Ray Edwards, matches the song\u2019s 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).<\/p>\n<p>TEEKS may not have released any new music in 2025, but he did feature in not one but two major <em>Rolling Stone AU\/NZ<\/em> lists last year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"observer-sub-form justify-content-center my-3 p-0 d-flex align-items-stretch bg-dark text-white\">\n<div class=\"observer-sub-form-info p-3\" style=\"justify-content: start;\">\n<h2 class=\"h5 mb-0 observer-title\">Love Music?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"observer-desc mb-2\"> Get your daily dose of everything happening in Australian\/New Zealand music and globally.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"spinner d-none\"> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>First, we named <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/au.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-lists\/80-best-new-zealand-albums-of-the-2020s-so-far-78646\/teeks-something-to-feel-album-78779\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Something to Feel<\/em><\/a> (2021) as one of the Best New Zealand Albums of the 2020s So Far, writing that his \u201cvoice could lift just about anything, and his long-awaited debut delivered on that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We then included <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/au.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-lists\/best-australian-new-zealand-songs-21st-century-so-far-list-87989\/teeks-remember-me-88214\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cRemember Me\u201d<\/a>, a standout track on that album, in our Best Australian &amp; New Zealand Songs of the 21st Century So Far countdown.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/au.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/six60-lorde-lead-rolling-stone-new-zealand-awards-winners-42531\/\" target=\"_blank\">TEEKS won Best New Artist<\/a> at the inaugural Rolling Stone New Zealand Awards in 2022, despite facing strong competition from CHAII, TE KAAHU, There\u2019s a Tuesday, and more.<\/p>\n<p>The aforementioned <em>Something to Feel<\/em> topped the charts in Aotearoa in 2021, earning TEEKS a nomination for Album of the Year at the 2021 Aotearoa Music Awards.<\/p>\n<p><em>TEEKS\u2019 My Boy is out now.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');fbq('init','243859349395737');fbq('track','PageView');fbq.disablePushState=true;<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source au.rollingstone.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEEKS is back with his first single in two years, and things are a little different. TEEKS today released \u201cMy Boy\u201d, a sensual and playful song that opens an exciting new chapter for the M\u0101ori soul artist. \u201cMy Boy\u201d is supremely vulnerable, TEEKS challenging ideas and expectations around queerness and sexual identity. \u201cI was doing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2476364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[487328,406112,487329,487330,487331],"class_list":["post-2476362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-my-boy","tag-teeks","tag-teeks-music","tag-teeks-my-boy","tag-teeks-single"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/TEEKS-Returns-with-Powerful-New-Single-My-Boy.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2476362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2476365,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476362\/revisions\/2476365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2476364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2476362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2476362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2476362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}