Yungblud has launched his harrowing new single, which explores his expertise of sexual abuse as a baby. Try ‘Hated’ beneath.
The singer – actual title Dominic Harrison – got here ahead to open up about his expertise yesterday (August 23), telling followers concerning the time he was sexually abused by a health care provider when he was simply seven years previous.
Within the social media replace, he additionally revealed that he had by no means advised anybody concerning the incident till he ultimately admitted it to his producer whereas writing the brand new monitor. He later described ‘Hated’ as being “probably the most private factor I’ve ever launched”.
Out in the present day (August 24), the monitor additionally comes alongside a putting and highly effective music video, which reveals Yungblud singing on to the digital camera and highlighting the tragic particulars of his expertise.
“[Your mum is] in all probability discovering out now within the line to your present / Why you’ll by no means belief a man in a tie and a coat,” he sings within the opening verse. “However you don’t need to do what your daddy did / Bury it deep down preserve it underneath your pores and skin/ So you place pen and paper, made a verse of it.”
The lyrics additionally see the 26-year-old musician recall his rise in reputation as an artist, exploring how he realised he had “made it” when he began to see folks disliking him.
“Proper now so far as common opinion goes / You’re a fancy, queer-baiting, indulgent arsehole,” he sings. “Some folks will thirst on watching you bleed / And that’s when that you simply made it /You made it whenever you’re hated.”
Discussing the which means behind the tune in his social media replace, Yungblud described the one as “a rallying cry and an exposition of the soul”.
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— YUNGBLUD is a lowlife (@yungblud) August 23, 2023
He continued: “The tune is finally about liberating your self from unhealthy experiences and trauma. discovering interior energy. acknowledging your previous, accepting the ache and having the braveness to not let it outline your future.”
‘Hated’ follows his latest single ‘Lowlife’, which he beforehand described as marking the beginning of a “new period” in his music.
