Teenage Joans Share Playful New Track “My Heart’s Dead!”
Adelaide punk two-piece Teenage Joans are sharing their second single of the year in the form of My Heart’s Dead!. Following recent release Sweet and Slow, My Heart’s Dead! is hard-hitting and mosh-ready, arriving just in time for the duo’s upcoming shows with Canada’s PUP and Slowly Slowly.
Combining pop songwriting with their instantly recognisable punk-pop sound, this earworm is begging to be chanted back by sweaty crowds. My Heart’s Dead! switches up from cynical to hopeful, perfectly capturing the head rush of new-found feelings.
Teenage Joans shared,“Funnily enough, “My Heart’s Dead!” started with a Kesha song. When we did triple j’s Like A Version in 2024, one of the songs we considered covering was “Die Young” by Kesha. It never made the cut, but we loved the bones of our interpretation and we really wanted to do something with it. We basically posed the question – what if Kesha made a song with Blink 182? That’s where the reoccurring pop hook came from, and we obviously pumped the song full of attitude.
“My Heart’s Dead!” is a playful tongue-in-cheek song that dramatically asks if someone could make you fall in love again by implying that “I’ll never find love”. We really wanted to write a song where there are three main vocal hooks that repeat throughout the whole song and layer over each other at the end for a huge singalong that people can easily pick up at our live shows.”
Fans don’t have to wait long to hear this head-banger live, with Teenage Joans supporting Canadian punk-rock outfit PUP on the Australian leg of their tour in August before joining Melbourne punk icons Slowly Slowly for their regional Australian tour in September.
After taking out the triple j unearthed high crown in 2020, Teenage Joans have not slowed down – the self proclaimed Juice-box punk-pop girls have taken out #87 in the 2020 Hottest 100 with Three Leaf Clover and #84 in the 2021 Hottest 100 with Wine. Their 2021 debut EP Taste Of Me won a record breaking 7 Awards at the 2021 SAM Awards including awards for ‘Best New Artist’, ‘Best Live Performance’ and ‘Best Release’ as well as taking home ‘Best Punk Artist’ in 2022 & 2023. Following up with their highly anticipated debut album The Rot That Grows Inside My Chest in 2023, Teenage Joans were recognised with 7 ARIA chart appearances and an ARIA nomination for ‘Best Heavy Album’.
Going from strength to strength, Teenage Joans have spent the last few years on tour around Australia and the US with the likes of Foo Fighters, Sleeping With Sirens, Sum 41, Noahfinnce, Amy Shark, Pale Waves, Ball Park Music, The Chats and many more as well as selling out multiple national headline tours. They’ve also hit a stack of festival stages including Good Things, Unify, SXSW Austin, Splendour In The Grass, Groovin The Moo, Laneway Festival and Spin Off with many more to come.
