Yungblud has launched his harrowing new single, which explores his expertise of sexual abuse as a baby. Try ‘Hated’ beneath.
The singer – actual identify Dominic Harrison – got here ahead to open up about his expertise yesterday (August 23), telling followers in regards to 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 instructed anybody in regards to the incident till he ultimately admitted it to his producer whereas writing the brand new observe. He later described ‘Hated’ as being “essentially the most private factor I’ve ever launched”.
Out right now (August 24), the observe additionally comes alongside a hanging and highly effective music video, which reveals Yungblud singing on to the digicam 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 wish to do what your daddy did / Bury it deep down maintain it beneath your pores and skin/ So you set pen and paper, made a verse of it.”
The lyrics additionally see the 26-year-old musician recall his rise in recognition as an artist, exploring how he realised he had “made it” when he began to see folks disliking him.
“Proper now so far as widespread opinion goes / You’re a fancy, queer-baiting, indulgent arsehole,” he sings. “Some folks will thirst on watching you bleed / And that’s when you understand that you simply made it /You made it if you’re hated.”
Discussing the that means behind the track in his social media replace, Yungblud described the only 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 track is finally about releasing your self from unhealthy experiences and trauma. discovering interior power. 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.
