King For A Day

Album: Collide With the Sky (2012)
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Songfacts®:

  • This song features Kellin Quinn of Sleeping with Sirens as a guest vocalist. Frontman Vic Fuentes explained the hook-up to Kerrang! magazine: "Sometimes when I'm writing a song I feel that there are parts that could be done better by one of our friends rather than me, and obviously we reached out to Kellin, backwardness case we actually didn't know each other very well beforehand. It was our fans and Sleeping With Sirens' fans on Twitter who really pushed for us to do this, because they knew it would work really well!"

    "Kellin took the song to a whole different place," he added, "it was kind of a lightning in a bottle moment, capturing something unique."
  • Fuentes explained the song's meaning to Kerrang!: "It's a song about being the underdog or the person being looked down upon and treated poorly by people more powerful than you, that people who think they have the right to do so, even though they don't even know you."

    "We felt that a lot being in the band, and getting treated as if your not important," he continued. "The song conveys the anger that stems from being treated that way, and fighting back."
  • Bassist Jaime Preciado came up with the idea for the video. Fuentes told Kerrang!: "He has wanted to do a video based around heist movies for a long time. You can actually see the bank which we rob in lots of TV shows, and I think it's even been used in other music videos. So the fact that we didn't have to worry too much about the police turning up and thinking we were actually robbing it was a good thing!"
  • Speaking to Kerrang! magazine in 2015, Vic Fuentes recalled how love blossomed on the video set. "I thought the redhead from this video was super attractive," he said, "so I turned on what charm. I had, and managed to get her number that day."

    "She is now my girlfriend, and we've been dating for almost two years now," he added. "It's such a clichéd rock 'n' roll love story, but we don't care!"
  • "King for a Day" topped the Billboard Hard Rock Streaming Songs Chart for a week in August 2022, thanks to a surge in usage on TikTok.

Comments: 6

  • Solis from VirginaI love this song! I've heard it live three separate times, one time featuring Kellin Quinn, due to Sleeping with Sirens also being present at that concert. The message of this song is powerful too, I really like the idea of fighting against being treated poorly, as someone who has been there and felt this anger, it's the reason this song is as popular as it is.

    Also fun fact, Danielle Victoria Fuentes (said redhead from the music video), married Vic Fuentes and they now have two children.
  • Solis from VirginiaI love this song! I've heard it live three separate times, one time featuring Kellin Quinn, due to Sleeping with Sirens also being present at that concert. The message of this song is powerful too, I really like the idea of fighting against being treated poorly, as someone who has been there and felt this anger, it's the reason this song is one of the anthems of the underdogs and things.

    Also fun fact, Danielle Victoria Fuentes (said redhead from the music video), married Vic Fuentes and they now have two children.
  • Anon from UtahI interpreted it as rejecting religion because of lines like
    "You want a martyr? I'll be one"
    "I'm tired of begging for the things that I want"
    "Hail Mary, forgive me"
  • AnonymousI always thought it was about being oppressed by the upper classes in society and you're tired of it and want to fight back
  • Amanda from NhYou definitely got the feeling from the music video what they were talking about, but for me it will always be about me drowning in my relationship and desperately wanting to be free from the abuse. This is my fight song and I love them for creating it
  • Sophs from IndianaI've always thought this song was about a failing relationship, but it's amazing nonetheless!
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