- 2019-12-22
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MUSIC
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YUNGBLUD Shares Vevo LIFT Live Sessions Videos
British singer-songwriter YUNGBLUD performed at The Brooklyn Hangar in Brooklyn, NY on October 10th as Vevo LIFT Live Sessions.
On December 20th, he shared the live videos for Vevo LIFT Live Sessions. Directed by Kyle Goldberg.
He played “casual sabotage”, “original me”, “parents” and “hope for the underrated youth” from his latest EP “the underrated youth”, as well as “Machine Gun” from his debut album “21st Century Liability”.
YUNGBLUD said of “casual sabotage”, “This song is so important to me. I wrote this a while ago and I played it once at a show in Amsterdam. One of the biggest tattoos in my fan base is: ‘I need to exist’. This song talks about me, it’s the first time I opened my heart up, really. It’s about me being heartbroken and me not really being able to love again because I will casually sabotage myself every fucking time because of the pain and heartbreak someone caused me. But it’s a statement saying that I hold my heart on a plate. And if you hold your heart on a plate and someone was nasty enough or naive enough to take that for granted and stab it, don’t stop holding your heart on a plate. Because, if that’s who you are… let yourself be it. Don’t become hardened and jaded by someone else’s ignorance.”- The original version of “original me” features Dan Reynolds of Imagine Dragons. “This song is about accepting the parts of yourself that you hate and realising your biggest superpower is to be originally, authentically yourself. Working with Dan Reynolds was such a dream come true as he is a huge inspiration for me. The song literally came out of the studio within a day. The mutual raw energy between us made this song what it is,” he said.
“parents” is uninfluenced form Eminem. “This song is literally a tribute to individualism. A statement saying that no one, except yourself, can dictate what is right for you and your life and who you should be. I wanted it to kind of sound a bit like Eminem in 2019 and have the instrumentation to almost be comical and witty and in your face and the lyrics to be as completely outrageous as the pictures are in my head. I wanted it to be Dom/YUNGBLUD completely uncensored.”
He explained about “hope for the underrated youth”, “It’s the first song that’s not been about me and my own experiences, it is partly but it’s about the people I’ve met and the things I hear. Every day, like, you wake up in a world that tries to put you, in a lane, it kinda tells you what to think, how to dress, how to look, how to think. The common denominator in the peple I meet, especially young people, is the constant optimism and fire and sense of equality that we want to achieve in the world and in the future, you know, and that’s what this song is about. This song is for us, sinners. The people that look at us for wanting to blur the lines of old division. This song is about the future being bright because we’re in it.”
“Machine Gun” is included his debut album “21st Century Liability”, which was released in 2018. - source : Vevo LIFT Live Sessions
