King Princess was only 11 the first time they were offered a recording contract, but their family opted against it. They told Rolling Stone, “My dad was really a protector and mentor. People were fucking scared of him. I worked with people who were like, ‘Oh man, I love your dad’s drum sounds.’ And I’m like, ‘Oh yeah? Don’t fuck with me’…I try to suppress it and say I had a chill childhood, but really I was brainstorming this whole thing.”The Straus family’s last name is well-known outside of the music industry as well. Isidor Straus, King Princess’s great-great-grandfather, co-owned Macy’s, and he and his wife, Ida, were the Titanic passengers who inspired the couple who refused to leave without each other and died together onboard the ship in James Cameron’s Titanic.