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Donate to support families affected by the crisis in Ukraine ➔ YUNGBLUD Releases New EP “the underrated youth”: Streaming
British singer-songwriter YUNGBLUD released his third EP “the underrated youth” on October 18th.
In the first official announcements the EP was set to be released on October 11th. But he was pushing back the release to October 18th.
At that time, he explained, “I was in the studio last night listening to the EP and it occurred to me that one of the songs isn’t quite right yet. I’ve got a bit of a favour to ask you… I just wanna ask if I can have one more week on the EP. If I can push it back to the 18th, from the 11th.”
The EP comprises of 6-track including the previously released three singles and features guest appearance from Dan Reynolds of American rock band Imagine Dragons.
Produced by Chris Greatti, Jorgen Odegard, Matt Schwartz, Mike Crossey, Tim Randolph, YUNGBLUD and Zakk Cervini.
He explained each song in an interview with Alternative Press below.- “braindead!”
That was the last song to go on the EP. I wanted the EP to open like a show does [where] it’s mental. It’s in your face, like, “Hello, YUNGBLUD’s back. YUNGBLUD’s back with the music, good fuckin’ mornin,” you know? That record is about that in this world of unjustified hate and people living in their ideologies, if you want me to be a part of your racist, homophobic, backward-thinking ideology, then I’d just rather be fuckin’ braindead. It’s about that internal anger and accepting yourself, no matter what people around you think about you. It’s all right to be yourself in this community. The instrumentation is mental. It’s just classic YUNGBLUD. Five different genres in one high-energy [song]—kind of what the fans want.
“parents”
This song is a tribute to individualism. It ain’t me telling my parents to fuck off. I’m not that naive. It’s about embracing your individuality and saying that the opinions of other people aren’t always going to be right and what’s going to be best for you. You as an individual only know what’s best for you. You as an individual only know what you truly are and have confidence and embrace that. That’s what that song’s about. The lyrics are fucking graphic as fuck, and I wanted to give insight into the pictures I paint inside my brain.
“original me” featuring Dan Reynolds
Yo, I made a song with Dan Reynolds from Imagine Dragons. What the fuck? [Laughs.] I’m at Leeds Fest, five years ago, and I’m just fucking in awe of him, and now I made a record with him. It’s fucking crazy. That song is about embracing the part that you don’t like about yourself because your biggest superpower—the superpower you’ve got—is to be originally yourself. You are different [than] every other human on this planet. And fucking embrace that because that is a wonderful thing.
It’s so crazy that I’m in New Orleans because the last time I was [here] about three months ago for a day off—same shit—Dan Reynolds calls me. [He’s] like, “Dude, I love what you’re doing. I love [that] you’re an advocate for the LGBTQ+ community”—because he is. Have you seen his documentary about fucking Mormon society, [Believer]? When we were getting the song set up, he said to me, “The world ain’t ready for you yet. I want to fucking help you. Let’s do a record together.” I was like, “Fuck man, you’re Dan Reynolds from Imagine Dragons. This is crazy.” We get in the studio, and we’re both fucking mental. We’re both crazy energetic, and we just let loose, and it feels like a pretty fuckin’ magic song. -
“casual sabotage”
“casual sabotage” was such a fucking important record for me because I played that a year ago—no, two years ago, and it wasn’t finished. We played it in Holland, and one video got leaked on YouTube, and now it is the biggest tattoo within my fanbase. “I’m just a messed-up kid with sewn-up lips/I can’t take this shit I need to exist” is the biggest tattoo within my fanbase, and it’s crazy. I needed to get it right before I released it.
That song is about me showing [and] talking about my heart for the first time—talking about me getting heartbroken for the first time. [It’s] me saying that it is OK to put your heart on a silver platter and hold it in front of you because yes, someone is going to hurt it—many people might hurt it. Many people are going to stab it right in front of your face.
They’re going to hurt you [and] make you feel like shit, but never lose that part of yourself that simply holds your heart out and is purely yourself because if you do, then you’re just like them. Because one day someone is going to find that heart of yours on that platter and is going to treat it as preciously as you do, and they won’t hurt it. As I said, that record resonates with me so hard because it’s the first time I talk about my heart. You can casually sabotage yourself. You can casually close yourself off and build up an iron wall and never let anyone in again because of someone else’s ignorance and insecurity that they broke your heart. It’s that callout to say leave it out there. Let it be out there.
“hope for the underrated youth”
It’s interesting when people call me the spokesperson. It kind of sends a shiver up my spine. Yeah, that’s amazing, but I am one of them. I never want to be above them. I am not above them. I am one of them. Yes, I’m on the fucking T-shirt, right? But without the people wearing the T-shirt, I’m fucking nothing. It’s never me and them. I’m just writing the songs. People come up to me and say, “Dom, you saved my life.” I was like, “No, I didn’t save your life. You saved your life. I was maybe just a fork in the crossroad.”
“waiting on the weekend”
That’s a little acoustic track I wanted to give to the fans. I used to work in a guitar shop, and I wrote that with the [manager] who taught me guitar. So I wrote that with my uncle, Shane Gilliver. He’s a guy with glasses from Leeds who lives in South London now. I just wanted to write a song about a girl I used to see on a train platform in London and just let them see another side to me that I wrote with someone who’s very dear to me and someone who’s not a fucking A-list songwriter from Los Angeles or anything like that. We recorded it completely live. The take is live [with] me playing guitar and singing and Adam [Warrington], my guitar player, playing a 1600 pump organ just to have something that is just a fucking moment. No explanation. It’s a bit of a lullaby that I wrote, and I just went, “Fuck it, I’m just going to release it.” For no other reason than I want to. - source : Alternative Press
