My Boy is a sensual and playful, yet deeply personal release, that finds one of Aotearoa’s most celebrated voices stepping into a new chapter of artistic honesty, delivering work that challenges ideas and expectations around queerness and sexual identity. 

Built around TEEKS’ unmistakable baritone and intimate songwriting, My Boy is equally as vulnerable and it is assured. The track sees him embrace an excitingly honest expression of his queer identity, drawing from his own lived experience with a new level of openness, excitement and content. 

“I was doing sessions back to back and got tired of explaining or correcting people on my sexuality. It got to a point where I would just go with whatever people assumed so that I could just get through it,” says TEEKS. “Eventually, I started to feel disingenuous and so when I did the session with M Basa and Josh Fountain I thought f**k it. It’s now or never. I got into the vocal booth and didn’t hold anything back.”

Directed by TEEKS and longtime collaborator Ray Edwards, the music video pairs the song’s tenderness with a striking visual world of queerness and homo-eroticism. Through evocative imagery and moments of genuine affection, the video challenges ideas and expectations around masculinity, manhood and sexual fluidity within Polynesian/POC communities, creating a powerful companion piece to the song’s emotional core.

With “My Boy”, TEEKS delivers one of his most fearless and affecting releases to date – a moving portrait of desire and longing that invites listeners into a space of openness, tenderness and truth.