According to billboard.com, YungBlud recently opened up about the inspiration for his self-titled third album in a sit-down interview with Billboard news. When asked why he named the album after himself YungBlud responded, because it’s “about me.” YungBlud, is the follow up to 2020’s Weird! and includes singles “The Funeral,” “Memories” (featuring Willow), and “Don’t Feel Like Feeling Sad Today.” The album was released on September second via LOCOMOTION/Geffen Records. The artist was quoted in saying that his latest album, “was an exercise for me at finding friends and people like me, I literally looked into an iPhone and went, ‘Hello is there anyone out there like me?’” He continued to say that, “To be honest, I don’t even really see myself as a musician first, which is such a mental thing to say, I see myself as a communicator. This album is called YungBlud because I think it is about me.”
Another topic of the sit-down was YungBlud meeting Mick Jagger, who recently gave YungBlud a shoutout in saying, “makes me think there is still a bit of life in rock and roll.” According to YungBlud, “Mick Jagger is everything to me, as a frontman, as an activist, as a rock star, as a sex icon, When you’re meeting a rock ‘n’ roll star, you can’t be like, ‘Oh, my God!’ I did a shot of whiskey, walked in — alright Mick how are you? In my head, I was like ‘What the f—?’” YungBlud also decided to share his own thoughts on the current state of rock music in saying that, “Rock ‘n’ roll is about energy, It’s not about a drum kit, it’s not about guitar, it’s not about anything other than freedom and energy, because energy doesn’t lie. Freedom to express, freedom to be yourself, freedom to not conform.”
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