My Mom's Basement - EPISODE 99 - YUNGBLUD

Episode Date: December 22, 2020

Yungblud hops down into the Basement this week to discuss his new album, 'weird!', drawing inspiration from Aldous Snow, taking his fanbase under his wing, and more. 3Chi: Use code ROBBIE at checkout to receive 5% off at 3Chi.comYou can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/mymomsbasement

Hey My Mom's Basement listeners, you can find our episodes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube, and Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. Today I have an interview with one of the fastest rising stars in the music industry. He's from across the pond. His name is Youngblood. This was an awesome interview. I felt like I was literally interviewing Aldous Snow from Get Him to the Greek. I mean, we talk about how Aldous Snow influences his personality, but he really does personify the Brit rock star. I really came out of this interview liking him too. I knew a little bit about him going in and I did my research and everything, but coming out of it, I think he earned a fan for life in me. Before we get into this interview,

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This is a very special edition of My Mom's basement with one and only young blood he just dropped his latest album weird and man this album is weird but in the best way possible the songwriting the production the genre bending i've been loving this album man when did this start coming together thank you brother it's been about a year in the making, to be honest. I started it last year and I just wanted to create an album. Like, even if we can forget about the pandemic right now, I wanted to create an album for the weirdest years of our lives. You know what I mean? I wanted to create an album that talks about life from a perspective of real truth. You know what I mean?

I didn't want to write an album that was like full of bullshit. You know, I wanted to write an album about sexuality, sex, identity, drugs, love, heartbreak, just a fucking neat whiskey story about life. You know what I mean? And you said it's about the weirdest years of our lives and we just had one of the weirdest years of our lives i assume the pandemic threw a wrench in this whole thing for you how did it affect the album if this started coming together pre

lockdown shut down everything like that was there a decision to be made like hey did we put this out right now do the people need it right now more than ever what was that like i mean i always work better when i got something to kick against. You know what I mean? So I think with it, at first it was a bit fucking wild and scary, but my fan base, we fucking came together. You know what I mean? Youngblood's like a community.

Youngblood ain't me. Youngblood is us. Yeah, your fan base is like, honestly, one of the most passionate in music, I feel. And I know this album is going to mean a lot to a lot of them. When did the way that you kind of treat your fanbase, you kind of take them under your wing, when did that become an important mentality for you as an artist?

Because you're so young, you're 23, a year older than mine. I find it super impressive how you're very protective over your fanbase. Dude, I think that's it. I think the thing about it is it's that I just wanted to meet some mates you know i mean i just wanted to find some people who could exist in the same place as me because i grew up with a lot of people around me who didn't get me who didn't understand me didn't want to understand me because i wasn't like them you know i mean and i think i think the thing about it is when when you find people, and you belong somewhere, it's like you got lungs for the first time, it's like you find out you can breathe,

you know what I mean, and it's like, holy fuck, I can, I can breathe, I can be, I can exist, and I haven't, I, I just don't see how I could be anything else with him. Yeah. I ain't here to be a fucking, some cunt who gets in a van and drinks a load of fucking champagne and fucking talks a lot of bollocks because a camera wants them to, and they're all just fucking playing at this idea of what rock and roll or pop is. I think it's a lot of bollocks to be honest. You know what I mean?

I want to sever the head of that idea and put it in my fridge i think you're doing well so far with that the thing about it is it's just like be who you fucking are do you know what i mean yeah so with this album like i said it's going to mean a lot to a lot of people your fan base there's a lot of very important songs about life on this that you've written i know i mean the vulnerability that you shared on it is is huge you've talked about some of these songs being, the vulnerability that you shared on it is huge. You've talked about some of these songs being really hard for you to write. What were those albums for you growing up that you kind of turned to when you felt alone, when you felt weird?

Black Parade, My Chemical Romance, Green Day, American Idiot, all the way through. Whatever people say, and that's what I'm not, Arctic Monkeys, The Fame, Lady Gaga, and probably What's The Story, Morning Glory by Oasis. I'm a huge Oasis fan. I got some Oasis questions later on, so I'm very excited to talk about The Big O. So let me ask you this about it. Was it a struggle to keep everything sonically feeling together? Because for me, the album really does feel like a complete work it feels like you know this is one body of work weird even though some of the songs are so opposite from the last song you heard on the album

say uh super dead friends and then cotton candy those songs are polar opposites of the spectrum but they all have this cinematic feel to them almost like you said the black parade the american idiot the first and last songs of this album you know they're the first and last song just by listening to them. That's it. I don't feel like songs and music to me aren't as simple as it's been songs and music. And that sounds fucking mad. Songs, I write songs because it replicates a feeling or an emotion. That's why they can sound so different yet

obviously it's me yeah i mean i think if you can listen to any song this album like that's young blood even though it's multiple different zones you know i just wanted to like everything i feel i do and i think that's one thing i get more fearless by every day that my fan base continue to grow and continue to accept me in the same way that I accept them. You know, I just like, I wanted to do a fucking five minute song with four key changes and blah, blah, blah at the end of the album. I wanted to do four different time sex that sounds a bit like a young wood times katie perry song going into a fucking beastie boys number in the middle because i'm as much of a product as my influence is the fact i got my smile from my mum and the way i itch my chin from my dad and my walk from my dad and the way i talk from fucking like liam gallagher and the way i fucking walk from i don't fucking know uh

whatever do you know i mean and like the way i itch my nose from snoopy do you know i mean it's like fuck it like be an accumulation of different ideas and i think these these artists and these people that i've met my whole life have made me ultimately what I am. So would you say that, was there less of a conscious effort to make everything sound, hey, let's make sure this fits on weird and more of just you being true to yourself, make pieces of the puzzle fit?

Well, that's what I'm saying. How can it fit on weird if it's not weird? Yeah. Do you know what I mean? How the fuck, like, if I had 18, 12 songs that sounded the same, they wouldn't be weird, would it? It'd be what I'd call the album ordinary.

Wouldn't be a great album. Wouldn't sell quite as well. Yeah. I was just like, it's so funny. When you do your second album, when you do your second album, it's like people expect you to go more commercial and more in the center. And I was just like, fuck's like people expect you to go more, more commercial and more in the center. And I was just like,

fuck it. I'm going to go louder. I'm going to go prouder. I'm going to go more experimental. And I'm just going to just write what, what I want. Because at the end of the day, Youngblood ain't about the music.

It's about the culture. And it's about the people. And it's about a message. It's about everyone coming together for one common reason instead of it being this vapid idea i think music can have such an agenda you know i mean and a lot of people can write for a motive and numbers and that kind of shit but i was like i just want to write music for a reason yeah to talk about people and to tell and to ensue an energy in people that they ensue in me if you think something's wrong tell them to fuck off and be exactly who you are and what has this week been like what's it been

like for you since the release of weird like your fan base finally i know this album was so anticipated for so long now the release has finally happened it's out like do you feel amazing bro i feel mad i'm like a fucking bunny and i'm bouncing around the forest all the time it's been like with my bunny friends man it's mad i can't fuck it i couldn't wait for it to come out i was so excited you must have been itching for everyone to hear it bro and everyone fucking loved it and i was just like yes i mean the old men in the rock magazines who were watching too much internet porn didn't like it because you know i mean they just i think that i think they got frustrated because the right hand was stuck to the keypad.

And they couldn't, you know what I mean? They don't like things to change. The old keyboard warriors with a bit of cheese in the beard. You know what bothers me about them and you? Not to cut you off, but some of them act like you don't wear your influences on your sleeve. And that's what really irks me about their critique. Completely get your influences wrong and it's just like it's so funny because i'm excited we got onto this because like the state

of rock music right every time some old bastard tries to hold rock rock music back because it doesn't sound like it did last time and what's so funny is it's like, we all become our dads. Yeah, it's true. It's like the previous generation, your dad was going, turn this shit off. It sounds,

it sounds like noise about Nirvana. And then his dad was saying, turn this shit off. It sounds like noise about the pistols. And then his dad was going, turn this shit off. It sounds like noise about the pistols and then his dad was going turn this shit off it sounds like noise about the stones and then his dad was going to turn this shit off and about chuck berry and it's happened since the evolution man and it's so funny when you kind of touch it it's like you sound like your dad you've seen it with you and you've seen it

with mgk who's got a great song in this album he put out a phenomenal album this year and there was a ton of pushback from the critics of hey this is a hip-hop guy trying to jump into pop punk completely ignoring the fact that he was on warp tour that he's been talking about blink forever and it's just like that's what we wanted to do but when we did i think i'm okay we was like let's piss every motherfucker off we just like just do just do good shit you know i mean it's like when everyone always asks like even plays me something it's like an artist plays me something or they play me a new a new piece of music that like or they're showing me some music everyone always thinks to what i want it to be heavy as fuck and i got loads of

attitude i'm like no man if it's cool i'll love it if it's good i'll fucking love it yeah i mean cotton candy is a is a good example of that right man it's complete candy floss like angel wings with a fucking strap on attached to the side another influence i would love to ask you about i watched an interview recently with you where you talked about one Aldous Snow. Oh, my God. I love everything. I'm just like, that's me. I love Get Up to the Greek.

It's one of my favorite underrated comedies. And I saw an interview with you where you said you legitimately just take a ton of inspiration from Russell Brand in that movie. I fucking love it. My team hates it. Don't you, Tom? It just says, why do I take inspiration from Al the Snow? Oh, God.

I just fucking get it, man. I get it. He's like Jagger. He's like fucking Bowie. I mean, the Gallagher brothers, obviously a huge influence. The Gallagher brothers, that's what I'm saying.

Just British rock and roll that just gives zero fucks and just talks about life from a real perspective you know what i mean yeah i love the the songs on this album where you really brit it up like strawberry lipstick and you really bring out like the brit snarl i mean i wanted to bring that out i wanted to bring it out in lippy i wanted to bring it out in charity i wanted to bring it out in Lippy. I wanted to bring it out in charity. I wanted to bring it out in ice cream, man, because I am English. I am English as fuck.

Really? I couldn't tell. I like fish and chips. I like Yorkshire tea. I like HP sauce. I like cold weather and a fucking cup and sauc are you in england right now i'm in england right now yeah i'm in london town and there was this whole album recorded over in england or no no it's actually it was mostly written in england but recording los angeles hollyweird

nice it fits for the album my guess noel gallagher of oasis has said before that everything he ever wanted to say was summed up in rock and roll star live forever and cigarettes and alcohol if i put you on the spot right now i said pick three young blood songs that say everything you ever wanted to say which three would you select mark i like you this is such a sick question i would probably say loner which isn't even on an album That's just in the middle Parents Mars

Those are your three You're sticking with them Final answer I'll probably tell you next week Different answer But for right now Ask me in 10 years yeah Yeah well yeah I'm sure you'll have a different answer When for right now ask me in 10 years yeah yeah well yeah i'm sure

you'll have a different answer when we're all old as fuck and we look like old ladies handbags yes and then finally in 2021 my favorite part of every live show that i ever go to is the opening song when the band first comes on stage or the artist first comes on stage the crowd's going ape shit maybe the Maybe the curtain drops. The concert begins. Super Dead Friends. Okay. Is that what you're opening with? I've got an idea. I've literally got like,

I've got like a Beastie Boys robot we've made already. It's like, boo, boo, boo, under the water. And it's like, boom, boom, boom. The band walk on through the, boo, boo, boo,

boo, boo, boo, boo, boo, boo. And it's got like this mad robot being like split out the mosh pit split out the mosh pit and then it's just like and then i'm like split the fucking pit out and i'm coming i'm like and people just go crazy and just goes but actually after this people just like i want to live in the new and just goes but actually after this year i just want people to be like holy fuck what is going on yeah young blood shows are just going to be this massive release of energy i think from every weird emo

kid in the entire world so sick and like last we played, we were breaking barriers, and we were, like, physically the front barrier were breaking in multiple ways. Proud to shove themselves that far forward. After a year and a half break, everyone's going to have to be All these new songs that nobody's heard live before? Yeah, you're going to have to put extra security measures on. Everyone's going to have to be, like, Zorb balls so they don't hurt each other.

Youngblood, this has been a pleasure talking to you about the new album. Go check it out now. It's called Weird. Stream it on Spotify. Buy it on iTunes, wherever music is sold. And look out for Young Blood in 2021. That opening with the robots is going to be sick. I'll be there in New York.

Dude, I can't wait. Thank you for having me, man. I love you and I love you all. Peace and love.