YUNGBLUD kicks off his next era with new single Lowlife

It’s been a busy week for YUNGBLUD! After hopping onstage with none other than Limp Bizkit to perform Break Stuff in Germany, the Doncaster star has just shared a new single.

Entitled Lowlife, YUNGBLUD’s first new song of the year kicks off a whole new chapter for him – one which sees him trying to ignore any subconcious influences and just do his own thing, with the help of producer Paul Meany (from the band Mutemath, and who works a lot with twenty one pilots).

“I’ve not been going into the studio intent on making something like Close To Me or Born This Way or Life On Mars,” YUNGBLUD explains. “He’d start with a blank canvas each time, bring up a beat and see what the fuck happens.”

Detailing the lyrical inspiration behind Lowlife in particular, he shares that he wrote it “because I just didn’t want to leave my house. I was sick of people, of games, of myself, my friends, anytime I did anything some idiot had an opinion about it. What I should do or be.

“The truth is I didn’t want to be anything at all sometimes,” he continues, “I wanted to be nothing. So I just didn’t leave bed. I was dissatisfied and craving some sort of boredom. The type of boredom where you sit in your house, in the same sheets and watch fucking mind-numbing TV, so I wrote a song about it.”

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