King Princess was solely 11 the primary time they had been provided a recording contract, however their household opted towards it.
They advised Rolling Stone, “My dad was actually a protector and mentor. Folks had been fucking frightened of him. I labored with individuals who had been like, ‘Oh man, I like your dad’s drum sounds.’ And I am like, ‘Oh yeah? Don’t fuck with me’…I attempt to suppress it and say I had a chill childhood, however actually I used to be brainstorming this complete factor.”
The Straus household’s final title is well-known exterior of the music trade as properly. Isidor Straus, King Princess’s great-great-grandfather, co-owned Macy’s, and he and his spouse, Ida, had been the Titanic passengers who impressed the couple who refused to depart with out one another and died collectively onboard the ship in James Cameron’s Titanic.
