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Yahoo
23-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Yungblud Really Really Really Swings Big on the Charmingly Overwrought ‘Idols'
Since emerging in the late 2010s, the British yelper Yungblud — a.k.a. Doncaster, England-born Dominic Harrison — has become an anti-pop hero. His songs channeled the angst and agitation of youth into frenetic mini-anthems that musically reflected the on-shuffle mentality of the 21st century. Yungblud's voice — a piercing yelp that exists somewhere between Gerard Way's wail and Brian Molko's sneer — slotted him in the alt-rock world, but his aspirations seemed to stretch far beyond that categorization. With his fourth album Idols Yungblud harnesses those hopes and takes a very big swing. The 12 songs released this week are the first half of what he's calling a double-album project, with part two slated for release at some point in the future, and this installment's opening track 'Hello Heaven, Hello' doubles as a leadoff statement of Yungblud's revitalized ambition. Mutating from a dreamy greeting into a muscular, shape-shifting rock song before taking a hairpin turn into fuzz-shrouded acoustic balladry, the nine-minute cut finds Yungblud reintroducing himself to his audience with equal parts bravado and humility: 'All the hopes and dreams I may have borrowed/Just know, my friend, I leave them all to you,' he wails near the song's end before disappearing into a cloud of strings and feedback. More from Rolling Stone Yungblud Confronts His Insecurities on 'Idols': This 'Was Almost My Last Chance' Florence Pugh Looks for the Light in Yungblud's Video for 'Zombie' Yungblud's Guide to Good Emotions: Lady Gaga, Florence Pugh, Rogue Bartending, and More Yungblud told Rolling Stone Australia that Idols comes 'from [my] heart and not from [my] head… it came from within me, and I made this for me.' Its broad scope shows how deep his passion for taking music in unexpected directions can run. 'Lovesick Lullaby' recalls the grungy, stompy power-alt-pop of the Nineties, with Yungblud sing-talking through a neurotic inner monologue on the verses before the candy-coated chorus opens up; the bridge brings forward some Brian Wilson-inspired vocal layering; and then everything comes back into the mix for chaos that's as raucous as it is hooky. 'The Greatest Parade' is defiantly downcast, its charging rhythms giving heightened importance to Yungblud's withered yowl and world-weary lyrics ('Now I think I've forgotten/Who I am/Well, can you remind me/Let's write it in the sand'). 'Ghosts' is another ambitious offering, pairing ruminations on mortality with stadium-rock grandeur, complete with an outro that possesses a churning splendor in a way that feels like a rebuke of any earthly limitations. (It's one of a few cuts to feature the London Philharmonic, a nod to how much of a force Yungblud has become.) Idols also shows how Yungblud's bellow is tailor-made for cathartic ballads. 'Zombie,' where he exposes his self-loathing ('Would you even want me, looking like a zombie?') over midtempo riffing, and 'War,' which tackles the conflicted feelings dredged up by the demands of stardom — particularly ones made by the people surrounding him whose motivations he can't quite trust. On Idols, Yungblud doesn't entirely ignore the hangers-on and 'helpful' outsiders, but he does barrel past them with a hungry bravado that shows why so many have become passionate about his music. Best of Rolling Stone Sly and the Family Stone: 20 Essential Songs The 50 Greatest Eminem Songs All 274 of Taylor Swift's Songs, Ranked
Sydney Morning Herald
19-06-2025
- 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
19-06-2025
- 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.
