Singer Yungblud gives a strong voice to the generation in which diversity and sexual revolution play a major role.
The Englishman Dominic Harrison is 23 years old and under the name Yungblud, with his brightly colored and substantial album “Weird!”, He is on the way to becoming one of the global opinion leaders of his generation.
Yungblud is on a run. “Weird!” Made it straight to the top of the British album charts, especially in his homeland the media celebrate him as the new and particularly credible voice of his generation. And Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters recently announced that he thinks Yungblud is the future of rock’n’roll. More is hardly possible. “Dave Grohl is the reason why I started playing the guitar as a child,” says the boy, who comes from Doncaster in the north of England and has a family background. His father runs a business in musical instruments, while his grandfather played at T-Rex.
Time to try it out
Even as a child he noticed that he ticked differently from the rest of the world, he dyed his hair, discovered the exalted fashion of Vivienne Westwood and felt “somehow loved by everyone, but not understood by anyone.” The obvious consequence: at 16 pulls He goes to London, goes to a performing arts school, plays the theater, writes songs, finally gets a record deal and experiences “fantastic years of sexual experimentation and sexual liberation”. In “Cotton Candy” he looks back on this precious time.
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Driving a generation without rules
“You first have to get lost in a lot of people to find out who you are,” says Yungblud. A year or two ago he was with his US colleague Halsey. He dedicates the two really emotional and tender songs “Love Song” and “It’s Quiet In Beverly Hills” to the relationship. He believes: “My generation is in the middle of a new, rapid sexual revolution. There are new terminologies and hardly any rules. Everyone can be how he or she wants to be. ”
And Yungblud is one of the driving forces behind this development, which is primarily fueled by the Internet. In his often incredibly melodic songs, he preaches the radical acceptance of all forms of life and love. The most important song for him on “Weird!” Is called “Mars” and was inspired by the encounter with a trans girl at a Yungblud concert in Maryland / USA, “She seemed so brave, so strong. A real warrior ”, says the musician, still touched. “She got extra good grades so that her parents could come to our show. All she wanted was to show them that she was not a freak or a disappointment. But that we are a big, loving community of crazy people. “
Music for the wildest time in life
The relationship between Yungblud and his often very young fans is extremely close and loving, they get understanding and security from him. “We are all Yungblud. We donate and gain strength and self-confidence in a community of people who are different from most, but who want to stand by themselves unconditionally and happily. ”
“I don’t make my music to have hits,” said Dominic, who three years ago lived in a shared apartment with colleague Lewis Capaldi and two other boys, “and then suddenly we meet again at the Grammys”. Rather? “I make music because I used to be lonely and now I am part of a community that means everything to me. I make music for the wildest, the craziest, the saddest, the happiest years of our lives. ‘Weird!’ is the manifesto of our youth. We should love and enjoy them. It goes by way too quickly. “
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