Yungblud just opened up about why he “needed” to record his latest album back at home.
The 27-year-old singer composed his album, Idols, in Leeds, North England, because he wanted to be around people who were not star struck and would give him genuine 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**k about hits, they don’t give a f**k about radio.”
“All I want is the truth out here. My mum will tell me when I’ve been a d**k,” the When We Die hitmaker added.
Yungblud also discussed how he wanted his latest sound to be “unmistakably British.”
“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,” the Hello Heaven, Hello singer explained.
Idols would mark the rock star’s fourth LP, a project he started working on four years ago after his album, Weird! topped the charts
“I was dissuaded from doing Idols after Weird! because Weird! was so commercially successful,” he confessed.
Yungblud continued, “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,” the breakdown. rocker added.
“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,” Yungblud concluded.
