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The Teenagers are an indie sleaze band from Paris, France starting in 2005. They have released their debut album “Reality Check” back in 2008 and a few singles to accompany it. They recently reformed as a band last year and released a new single titled “Do You Remember”. The band has had lots of notable success from being featured in major press like NME, Pitchfork, and The Guardian, performing at music festivals like Glastonbury and Coachella, and have toured across the world.
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TIME STAMPS
1:58 - when we wrote Homecoming? I asked my bandmate's American girlfriend what is the worst swear word in English? and I was like cool, let’s use it in a song
3:01 - what inspired The Teenagers comeback?
4:00 - “I started to micro dose psilocybin”
4:35 - “I started to harass Dorian (my old bandmate) to redo the band”
5:24 - “I think in 5 months, we wrote 15 songs”
6:43 - A new full length The Teenagers album confirmation?
7:14 - transitioning from fame like performing Coachella to back to a regular job
8:41 - "We did hang out with Florence & The Machine"
8:56 - 200 million + listens to their older songs from a TikTok revival
9:19 - "There is a Gen Z crowd that is also discovering us through TikTok"
10:01 - Reflecting on releasing music on XL Recording sharing the same label with Radiohead, The White Stripes, M.I.A, Kitsune’ mention
11:23 - "And I think they signed Adele one month after of us"
12:52 - NME gave "Reality Check" higher praise. The album surpassed Muse, Panic! At The Disco, and REM. Quinten calling it very provocative of the magazine to do
17:27 - Memories of remixing Vampire Weekend, Brittney Spears, and Chromeo and opening for Vampire Weekend
19:13 - New The Teenagers remix coming out for Junior Varsity (band)
20:04 - Opening for Vampire Weekend on a US tour. “I have a story about them I don't know if I can tell”
21:53 - Performing Coachella, crazy story of bandmate playing the wrong song. He calls it “peak Coachella”, “I feel it’s transitioned into an influencer festival, it’s not really accessible anymore, it’s expensive”
23:12 - “I fell off stage at Reading Festival before the song even started. I walked on the monitor and fell off stage”
23:29 - "We have a photo of meeting David Hassellhoff from Baywatch after our set at Coachella"
23:25 - "We hung out with Sky Fierra, I don't know why she was there because she was only 12"
24:52 - Reflecting on playing right before MGMT at Coachella
25:58 - What the experience was like playing Glastonbury and Reading Festival?
26:47 - I took MDMA before our set at one of those festivals right before our performance. Yeah, I think it was when we played Glastonbury. It was an out of body experience. I looked at my bandmate and asked “What are the words to the song?” I forgot the lyrics to the song.
29:42 - Insights on bringing random on stage to sing along to their hit song “Homecoming”. The origins of how that started and favorite memories from doing it
35:02 - Being labeled as “indie sleaze” and what that means to him?
37:50 - Is Homecoming based on a true story?
38:57 - Biggest highs and lowest lows from fame?
41:55 - 1/3 of the original band members is no longer in the band
42:14 Dorian knows Justice (band)
42:28 - Phoenix (band) recognized The Teenagers outside of a club in Paris. A member of Phoenix’s girlfriend made their music video for their biggest single “Homecoming”
43:13 - The Teenagers bonded as a band over their love for M83, especially both music projects being from France
44:20 - His experience living in London and how he met Metronomy (band)
46:19 - DJing Paris Fashion Week 2026 and how that opportunity came together
