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Name .:. Yungblud - Yungblud
Genre : Alternative
Source : CDDA
Type .:. Album
Artist : Yungblud
Label : Interscope (Universal Music)
Titel : Yungblud
Tracks : 12
Playtime : 33:09
Size : 61,87 MB
Encoder : VBRNEW - LAME3.100 - V0
Quality : VBR kbps / 44.1kHz / Joint-Stereo
Bitrate : avg. 258kbps
[ Tracklist ]
01.The Funeral 03:31
02.Tissues 03:35
03.Memories with Willow 02:36
04.Cruel Kids 02:52
05.Mad 02:26
06.I Cry 2 01:57
07.Sweet Heroine 02:32
08.Sex Not Violence 03:23
09.Don't Go 02:30
10.Don't Feel Like Feeling Sad Today 01:57
11.Die For A Night 01:32
12.The Boy In The Black Dress 04:18
Total 33:09 Min
Yungblud isnÆt one for subtleties. Armed with his
trademark smudged eyeliner and creeper shoes,
Doncaster, EnglandÆs Dominic Harrison uses formulaic
pop melodies to proclaim the misfit manifesto:
Nobody understands me. In the music video for ôThe
Funeral,ö the opener to HarrisonÆs third album,
Yungblud, he digs his own grave and crowd surfs in a
coffin before Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne run him over
with their car. ôJust some fucking poser,ö Sharon
scoffs, signaling to YungbludÆs purist naysayers
that heÆs in on the joke, too.
Over the past four years, Harrison has become
something of a Gen Z spokesperson by rehashing pop-
punk cliches of yore: ôAll I want is a
cigarette/Until I realize IÆve got none left,ö he
sings on the sincere acoustic ballad ôDie for a
Night.ö If heÆs done one thing right, itÆs to insist
that he doesnÆt consider himself a true punk at all.
Instead, he likens himself to Mac Miller and Lil
Peep, polarizing wunderkinds whose bright careers
ended in tragedy: ôI got into this place where I
thought the best career move would be death,ö
Harrison recently told NME. ôI thought, æIf I die
right now, would people look beyond a horrible trend
on Twitter or TikTok? Would they give me a chance?Æö
With this in mind, earnest declarations like ôI got
a fucked-up soul and an STDö sound less remorseful
and more like HarrisonÆs attempt to conjure pathos
in a way his music cannot.
While HarrisonÆs previous work has touched clumsily
on broader topics like chasing fame, growing up
queer, and even mass shootings, he asserts that
Yungblud divulges profound stories about his
troubled personal history. The closest he gets to
real introspection is on ôThe Boy in the Black
Dressö when he sings: ôMasculinity seems to hurt a
lot/The first time that you feel it in your jaw,ö or
on ôI Cry 2ö when he dispels accusations of
queerbaiting by announcing, ôIÆll start dating men
when they go to therapy.ö But itÆs hard to praise
Harrison for vulnerability when the songs feel this
anonymous and insipid, and harder when he wastes a
sample of the CureÆs ôClose to Meö on infantile
rhymes like ôI donÆt want you to hide your
issues/Blow them into your tissuesöùwhich might help
you stop crying, if only because youÆre laughing too
hard.
It doesnÆt help that none of the music on Yungblud
sounds even remotely inspired. HarrisonÆs first two
albums, 2018Æs 21st Century Liability and 2020Æs
Weird!, interwove elements of rap with macabre pop-
punk, presenting him as the UK analogue to Twenty
One Pilots or his pal and collaborator Machine Gun
Kelly. It mightÆve felt heavy-handed and forced, but
at least it was something. On Yungblud, Harrison
leans almost exclusively into saccharine pop-rock,
making this his most monotonous and least
distinctive record. He is still struggling to come
up with a song that doesnÆt already ring a bell:
From a bastardization of Billy IdolÆs ôDancing With
Myselfö (ôThe Funeralö) to watered-down imitations
of the 1975 (ôI Cry 2ö) and One Direction (ôDonÆt
Feel Like Being Sadö), Harrison has never sounded
less like the boundary-breaking eccentric he
vehemently aspires to be. HeÆs well aware he isnÆt
everyoneÆs cup of tea, but itÆs not because of his
unfiltered bad boy image. On Yungblud, itÆs simply
because the cup is empty.
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