In 2012, King released her debut EP "The Elle King EP" on RCA; one track from that EP, "Playing for Keeps", is the theme song for VH1's Mob Wives Chicago series.
She released her debut album "Love Stuff" in 2015. It produced the US top ten single "Ex's & Oh's", which earned her two Grammy Award nominations. King has also toured with acts such as Of Monsters and Men, Train, James Bay, The Chicks, Heart, Joan Jett, Michael Kiwanuka, and Miranda Lambert. She is the daughter of actor and comedian Rob Schneider and former model London King. King uses her mother's surname to distinguish her career and identity from her father's. "People know who my dad is," she told ABC News, "but I think that my voice and my music speaks for itself: that I am my own person."
King is a four-time Grammy Award nominee, two each in the rock and country categories, and received honors from the Country Music Association Awards and the Academy of Country Music Awards.
King was born on July 3, 1989 in Los Angeles, California, to then-Saturday Night Live cast member Rob Schneider and London King, a former model. Her parents divorced and her mother remarried. She grew up living in Ohio, between Wellston and Columbus. When she was nine, her stepfather, Justin Tesa, gave her a record by all-female hard-rock band the Donnas; she views this as the pivotal moment when she decided she wanted to be a musician. Around this time, she also started listening to the Runaways and Blondie, and she made her acting debut alongside her father in the movie Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo.
At the age of 13, King started playing guitar, immersing herself in the music of Otis Redding, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Etta James, Aretha Franklin, Al Green, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, AC/DC (she has the phrase "dirty deeds" tattooed on her biceps), and Earl Scruggs. Her interest in the country and bluegrass of Hank Williams and Earl Scruggs inspired her to learn the banjo. During her teenage years, she attended Buck's Rock camp in Connecticut, where she starred successfully in a number of musicals.
King spent her teenage years in New York City, but she has also lived in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Copenhagen, Denmark. Upon graduating from Elisabeth Irwin High School/Little Red School House, she moved to Philadelphia to enroll at University of the Arts, studying painting and film. During these college years, she had an artistic epiphany seeing a live show where the band onstage used a banjo purely for accompaniment purposes, eschewing the bluegrass and country musical vocabulary traditionally associated with the instrument. King then began to use the banjo as a compositional tool. After college, she briefly lived in Copenhagen and Los Angeles, before moving back to New York where she currently resides in Bushwick, Brooklyn.
In September 2014, King released "Ex's & Oh's", which serves as the lead single off her debut album. She released the album, Love Stuff on February 17, 2015. She performed "Ex's & Oh's" the next day on The Today Show to promote it. The song reached number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming King's first top ten single in the United States. "Ex's & Oh's" received two nominations at the 58th Grammy Awards: Best Rock Performance and Best Rock Song. In July 2015, King supported Modest Mouse on their UK tour. "Under the Influence" and "America's Sweetheart" were later released as singles for rock radio and mainstream radio, respectively. In 2016, her single "Good Girls" featured on the Ghostbusters soundtrack and played over the movie's credits. In 2016, she teamed up with country singer Dierks Bentley for the song "Different for Girls". They performed this song at the 50th CMA Awards on November 2, 2016, when she and Bentley won the award for Musical Event of the Year.
On March 6, 2017, she premiered a new single "Wild Love" featuring a sparse electronic production, marking a slight departure from her previous style in music.
King released her second studio album "Shake the Spiri", on October 19, 2018, which she made with her band the Brethren. On August 3, 2019, she was featured singing on a version of Lindsey Stirling's "The Upside". Throughout 2019, King served as a guest co-host on the MTV series Catfish: The TV Show opposite lead host Nev Schulman.
In 2021, it was revealed she was pregnant with her first child with tattoo artist Dan Tooker. On September 1, 2021, she welcomed a baby boy. King has several tattoos, and worked at a tattoo company called East Side Ink.
Ain't Gonna Drown
Elle King Lyrics
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Moon's rising and my blood is growing cold
Preacher man can't save a soul like mine
Miracles are just too damn hard to find
Ain't gonna drown in the water
Ain't gonna drown in the water
Ain't gonna drown in the water
I'm bound for the broken promise land
To meet my demons and get back my upper hand
Long man can't catch a soul like mine
Miracles are just too damn hard to find
Ain't gonna drown in the water
Ain't gonna drown in the water
Ain't gonna drown in the water
'Cause the good Lord ain't bringing me home
Long man can't catch a soul like mine
Miracles are just too damn hard to find
Ain't gonna drown in the water
Ain't gonna drown in the water
Ain't gonna drown in the water
'Cause the good Lord ain't bringing me home
Ain't gonna drown in the water
Ain't gonna drown in the water
Ain't gonna drown in the water
'Cause the good Lord ain't bringing me home
In Elle King's "Ain't Gonna Drown," the songwriter takes a stance of determination to face her demons and escape from her past without being dragged down by it. The opening lines of the song allude to a sense of being trapped, with no immediate escape in sight, as the singer tries to navigate a difficult path in life. She knows it won't be easy, but she refuses to give up and drown in the water, implying that she won't let herself be destroyed by the difficulties of life.
The lyrics also hint at a sense of frustration towards religion, as the singer feels like the preacher man cannot save her soul, and miracles are just too hard to come by. Instead, she seems to rely on her own strength and determination to face her challenges head-on. She knows it won't be easy, but she refuses to give up and drown in the water, implying that she won't let herself be destroyed by the difficulties of life.
As the song progresses, the singer reveals that she is "bound for the broken promise land," a metaphor for a place where things don't work out as planned. Here, she must face her demons and take back control of her life. She acknowledges that it is unlikely that anyone else can help her, as the "long man can't catch a soul like mine," again implying that she must rely on herself to face her challenges.
Overall, "Ain't Gonna Drown" is a song about resilience and the determination to overcome adversity without relying on miracles or external help.
Line by Line Meaning
Train's coming but I'm stuck on this road
I feel trapped and unable to move forward
Moon's rising and my blood is growing cold
I feel alone and scared
Preacher man can't save a soul like mine
I don't believe in religious salvation
Miracles are just too damn hard to find
I have lost faith in the possibility of miracles
Ain't gonna drown in the water
I won't give up or be defeated
Ain't gonna drown in the water
I won't give up or be defeated
Ain't gonna drown in the water
I won't give up or be defeated
'Cause the good Lord ain't bringing me home
I don't believe in a higher power or afterlife
I'm bound for the broken promise land
I am going to a place where my hopes and dreams have been shattered
To meet my demons and get back my upper hand
I am facing my fears and trying to regain control
Long man can't catch a soul like mine
The devil cannot claim my soul
Miracles are just too damn hard to find
I have lost faith in the possibility of miracles
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Written by: Tanner Schneider
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
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This song is almost 10yrs old 😂😂😂
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I can listen to this woman for literally hours. Love the voice, love the lyrics, love the rhythm
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