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.
See You Again
Elle King Lyrics
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Fire in your eyes
As you held me in
Said, sorry, I didn't write
We've got seven days
'Til we say goodbye
Back to separate ways
But I'll miss you more this time
So won't you stay
'Til the morning
I've been frozen since that night you sang with me
One more day
For you to hold me
'Cause I don't know when I'll see you again
How was I to guess
I'd still be on your mind?
Enough to bring you here
And prove I wasn't right
We don't need to know
The future isn't ours
When we both let go
I'll hear you in the bars
So won't you stay
'Til the morning
I've been frozen since that night you sang with me
One more day
For you to hold me
'Cause I don't know when I'll see you again
The lyrics of Elle King's "See You Again" are a poignant and emotive reflection on the pain of separation and the ambiguity of the future. The song is narrated by a person who is about to part ways with a loved one who they know they won't see for some time, or perhaps ever again. The chorus captures the central sentiment of the song: "So won't you stay, 'til the morning/ I've been frozen since that night you sang with me/ One more day, for you to hold me/ 'Cause I don't know when I'll see you again."
The opening verse sets the scene, as the singer describes the intensity of the moment: "You were standing there/ Fire in your eyes/ As you held me in/ Said, sorry, I didn't write." The second verse explores the complexity of this goodbye, as the singer reflects on the past and the uncertainty of the future: "How was I to guess/ I'd still be on your mind?/ Enough to bring you here/ And prove I wasn't right/ We don't need to know/ The future isn't ours/ When we both let go/ I'll hear you in the bars."
Overall, "See You Again" is a deeply emotive song that captures the pain and confusion of a difficult goodbye. Elle King's songwriting is at its finest here, as she evokes powerful emotions with her vivid imagery and heartfelt lyrics.
Line by Line Meaning
You were standing there
You were present right in front of me
Fire in your eyes
Your eyes had a fierce and intense expression
As you held me in
While embracing me tightly
Said, sorry, I didn't write
Apologized for not writing
We've got seven days
We have a week's time
'Til we say goodbye
Before we part ways
Back to separate ways
Going back to our individual paths
But I'll miss you more this time
I'll feel your absence more compared to before
So won't you stay
Requesting to remain here
'Til the morning
Until the next morning arrives
I've been frozen since that night you sang with me
I've been stuck in time since the moment we sang together
One more day
One additional day
For you to hold me
So you can hug me once more
'Cause I don't know when I'll see you again
Since there's uncertainty about the next meet-up
How was I to guess
I had no way to predict
I'd still be on your mind?
That you'd still think about me?
Enough to bring you here
Sufficient to make you come here
And prove I wasn't right
And contradict what I believed before
We don't need to know
It's not necessary for us to be aware
The future isn't ours
What's to happen in the future isn't under our control
When we both let go
When we both move on and forget
I'll hear you in the bars
I'll listen to your voice in the bars
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Written by: Tanner Elle Schneider, Francis Anthony White
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
@vinividipepe
You were standing there
Fire in your eyes
As you held me in
Said, "Sorry, I didn't write"
We've got seven days
'Til we say goodbye
Back to separate ways
I'll miss you more this time
So won't you stay
Til the morning
I've been frozen since that night you sang with me,
One more day
For you to hold me
'Cause I don't know when I'll see you again
How was I to guess
I'd still be on your mind?
Enough to bring you here
And prove I wasn't right
We don't need to know
The future isn't ours
When we both let go
I'll hear you in the bars
So won't you stay
Till the morning
I've been frozen since that night you sang with me,
One more day
For you to hold me
'Cause I don't know when I'll see you again
@jennyjones2729
she is sheer talent and passion in the flesh. She's a joy to watch live, and I love how she presents her art... sigh. Ill never forget the time I saw her perform live. TY for my best birthday in life. its about time VEVO posted the album.
@johnbergholm
there is no higher compliment than being called a "sheer talet" 😆
@jennyjones2729
@John Bergholm i forgot an N. Im sure my point was made. I'll fix the typo just for you.
@heidipye3488
@Jenny Jones always the grammer police watching!🙄
@jennyjones2729
@Kindness Matters i saw her in the tiniest stage, place couldnt have and more than 80ppl in it. They were a terrible audience. I was losing my mind. She was outstanding! Paid for a meet and greet, she complimented my coat, I chatted with her grandpa! Its a treasured memory. Shes glowing with her pregnancy, shes gonna be a badass mama!
@dianetraynere
Simply enchanting song that makes you really lean in and listen
@ash-dy3ej
One of those songs you have to listen to the end before doing anything else
@Zachsmommy321
Those 3 people who disliked this need to GET their hearing checked.
@timtrimble3591
I totally agree!!!
@cousinjake7986
I'm downloading this whole album and I'm gonna listen to it tonight by a fire, with bourbon.