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Sydney Morning Herald
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
A pop-rock lightning rod returns, as polarising as ever
Yungblud, Idols Ever since he exploded onto the scene with his 2018 breakout hit, I Love You, Will You Marry Me, Yungblud has been a lightning rod. An outspoken, gender-bending, genre-hopping pop-punk emo from the English suburbs, Yungblud – real name Dominic Harrison – is a magnet for curiosity and controversy. He's been accused of queerbaiting and fetishising the working class. He has been both celebrated and chastised for his political activism, affronting sincerity, and chameleonic approach to music and fashion. Depending on who you ask, he's a trailblazer or a poser, inauthentic or unapologetically himself. His music runs the gamut – he bounces like a pinball, pinging off David Bowie into Billy Idol, hitting Blink-182 and Machine Gun Kelly, grazing Robert Smith and Harry Styles. He's less an enigma than a graffiti wall, painted over until it becomes something messier and grungier but unmistakably fun and oddly beautiful. The 27-year-old's newest album sees Yungblud embracing his contradictions, whirling through the chaos in search of meaning, and emerging with a carpe diem-style optimism. It's ambitious, diverse and sprawling. But like a restaurant with too many items on the menu, you never quite know what you're going to get. The album opener is Yungblud's most impressive artistic achievement yet. Hello Heaven, Hello is a nine-minute statement of intent, and unlike Green Day's Jesus of Suburbia (which is effectively five mini-songs sewn together), it feels like a complete product from start to finish. It moves seamlessly from early-2000s pop-punk to '80s arena rock, and then shifts down into '90s Britpop. And, somehow, it absolutely works. From there, the album is almost Tarantino-esque, a technicolour pastiche. Yungblud wears his influences on his sleeve, for better and worse.
The Age
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Age
A pop-rock lightning rod returns, as polarising as ever
Yungblud, Idols Ever since he exploded onto the scene with his 2018 breakout hit, I Love You, Will You Marry Me, Yungblud has been a lightning rod. An outspoken, gender-bending, genre-hopping pop-punk emo from the English suburbs, Yungblud – real name Dominic Harrison – is a magnet for curiosity and controversy. He's been accused of queerbaiting and fetishising the working class. He has been both celebrated and chastised for his political activism, affronting sincerity, and chameleonic approach to music and fashion. Depending on who you ask, he's a trailblazer or a poser, inauthentic or unapologetically himself. His music runs the gamut – he bounces like a pinball, pinging off David Bowie into Billy Idol, hitting Blink-182 and Machine Gun Kelly, grazing Robert Smith and Harry Styles. He's less an enigma than a graffiti wall, painted over until it becomes something messier and grungier but unmistakably fun and oddly beautiful. The 27-year-old's newest album sees Yungblud embracing his contradictions, whirling through the chaos in search of meaning, and emerging with a carpe diem-style optimism. It's ambitious, diverse and sprawling. But like a restaurant with too many items on the menu, you never quite know what you're going to get. The album opener is Yungblud's most impressive artistic achievement yet. Hello Heaven, Hello is a nine-minute statement of intent, and unlike Green Day's Jesus of Suburbia (which is effectively five mini-songs sewn together), it feels like a complete product from start to finish. It moves seamlessly from early-2000s pop-punk to '80s arena rock, and then shifts down into '90s Britpop. And, somehow, it absolutely works. From there, the album is almost Tarantino-esque, a technicolour pastiche. Yungblud wears his influences on his sleeve, for better and worse.
Perth Now
13-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Yungblud 'needed' to go home for new album
Yungblud "needed" to record his latest album near his family. The 27-year-old singer worked on Idols in Leeds, North England, just a few miles from where he grew up, because he wanted to be around people who didn't care about his stardom and aren't afraid to give him their honest opinions. He explained to The Sun newspaper: 'I needed to go back north, to family. Because when you write a record with family, they don't give a f*** about hits, they don't give a f*** about radio. "All I want is the truth out here. My mum will tell me when I've been a d***.' The Hello Heaven, Hello singer wanted the record to sound "unmistakably British". He said: 'I love British music, British art — and I'm so happy to be British. I don't think there's enough British music at the forefront of the British music industry right now, so I wanted to make a record that sounded unmistakably British.' Idols, Yungblud's fourth LP, is something he started writing four years ago after his album Weird! topped the charts but he admitted the people around him tried to get him to work on something else in order to capitalise on his commercial success, but he's proud he figured out his direction on his own. He said: 'I was dissuaded from doing Idols after Weird! because Weird! was so commercially successful. 'I went and worked with a load of songwriters — and when you do that, you've got seven people a week telling you what Yungblud should do next. I had to figure that out for myself. 'I didn't want to make vapid songs that sound great on the radio. Yeah, we've got a couple of f**king radio bangers on this record, but I wanted to make one album that's a through line — classic and timeless. "There's no gimmicks, man. None. This is me leaving everything on the table, showing the world what I can do. "That's why I orchestrated everything. I did everything I could to make it as deep and five-dimensional — lyrically and musically — as I possibly could.' 'I've been all over the world and spent a lot of time in America, but for this album I needed to come home."
UPI
30-05-2025
- Entertainment
- UPI
Watch: Yungblud recruits Florence Pugh to star in 'Zombie' music video
May 30 (UPI) -- Thunderbolts actress Florence Pugh stars in Yungblud's music video for his new song "Zombie." In the video, which arrived Friday, Pugh portrays a nurse who experiences the full breadth of human emotion while caring for various patients. Pugh's character serves coffee, cries in the break room, talks to a woman undergoing chemo treatment and screams privately. As the song continues, Pugh appears with angel wings. Yungblud called the song "a love letter to nurses." The video struck a chord with healthcare workers who remarked on the song's resonance in the comments. "Ugly crying by how beautiful this was," one commenter wrote. "I'm so proud of you and what we made," Pugh wrote. "Well done babe." The song will appear on Yungblud's album Idols, which will be released in two parts, with the first arriving June 20. "Our most ambitious adventure yet," he wrote in a post promoting the album. Part 1 will also include the previously released tracks "Hello Heaven, Hello" and "Lovesick Lullaby." Tickets for his Idols tour, which kicks off in August, are on sale now.
Daily Mirror
10-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Yungblud says he's 'calmer than ever' after confronting his demons
EXCLUSIVE: The singer, 27, is coming out fighting with his new music - and he's not shying away from the hard topics to climb the charts either Yungblud is coming out fighting with his new music. He's confronted his demons, taken up boxing and is battling against toxic masculinity. And what he delivers with album Idols really packs a punch. 'I really had to face myself… figure it out and face it,' he tells. And Yungblud, 27, reckons he has really grown in the process. 'I would use food and alcohol to distract myself and push things down,' he says. 'The album is a mirror to that. I have singing lessons. I don't drink as much and I've been getting better at sleeping. I've been getting better at being able to navigate this whole thing better – that's been epic.' Idols is Yungblud's fourth studio release, the first coming out in 2018. He filmed the music video for single Hello Heaven shirtless during a -14C blizzard in Bulgaria – and is enjoying flashing the flesh. Having previously opened up about his battle with body dysmorphia, the Doncaster rocker – real name Dominic Harrison – tells how he has now 'cut out people that were not good' for him, and that posing topless for his album promo is a 'kickback against those people'. Yungblud is not shying away from hard topics to climb the charts either. He says: 'Me and my friends were talking about sexuality. It was what young people were talking about but it wasn't being represented in music at all. It was kind of like, 'Oh, don't sing about that. It's too political to go on Radio One.' 'I was like, 'This is what people want to hear, this is what I want to say, this is what I want to sing about'.' After his last album, Yungblud opened up about the fear of being predictable – but that is one thing you can't accuse him of with this record. 'People knew exactly what I would sing, wear and say,' he says. 'I was repeating myself and I was starting to not tell the truth. 'The past two years has been a real reset for me to provide a new outlet and a new journey. I feel calmer than I've ever felt because it's truly written. If it's not real, people can smell it'. Describing the creative process, he said: 'It's like crying or having an orgasm… it just comes out of you without f***ing responsibility or consequence'. And Yungblud, who recently took up boxing with a trainer in LA, wants to be a positive role model for other men. Previously addressing the issue on Jamie Laing's podcast Great Company, and referencing hit Netflix series Adolescence, he says: 'What I see are these psychos like Andrew Tate and this toxically poisonous stuff that young men are consuming. 'I really feel like there needs to be people who embrace masculinity and embrace this element of physical activity, but also do it like me – from a place of law, respect and equality. 'I want to portray that it's cool to embrace masculinity in a new way that highlights emotions but respects that there isn't just this kind of old school idea that's being peddled.' Idols is out on June 20 and Yungblud's world tour starts in LA on August 23. Bludfest in Milton Keynes on June 21 is his only UK date this year.
