Yungblud has unveiled his third single of 2022, “Don’t Really feel Like Feeling Unhappy At this time,” alongside a fan-featuring video filmed on London’s Southbank final week (June 20).
SPIN‘s April cowl star invited keen followers to make a splash within the clip (see NME‘s report about what went down). Earlier than police put a cease to it, followers had been drenched with water pistols whereas Yungblud carried out “Don’t Really feel Like Feeling Unhappy At this time” on a flatbed truck. The near-riot was ultimately shut down for what police deemed overcrowding.
“My supervisor requested me, ‘What can we do, that nobody else does?’” Yungblud says of the video in an announcement. “And the idea got here to us. All around the world I meet my followers within the streets, to really feel a connection … Put it this manner — the fucking police everywhere in the world know after we’re city! So I mentioned, let’s roll some cameras, pull up a truck, no permits, no permission, inform folks to fulfill me at a location and have a large water combat. Sing, scream and really feel collectively. Imperfect, uncooked, actual … pleased.”
The observe provides additional hints in regards to the sound of the British rocker’s forthcoming album, Yungblud, which he beforehand introduced will probably be launched on September 2. “Don’t Really feel Like Feeling Unhappy At this time” was co-written by Yungblud and Matt Schwartz and executive-produced by Chris Greatti.
“I wrote this music on a morning once I didn’t even wish to get off the bed,” Yungblud says. “I sat and seemed on the ceiling, head filled with a lot shit, studying what the Web was saying about me that day, and I simply didn’t really feel like feeling unhappy.”
Yungblud is recent off of his first efficiency on the U.Ok.’s Glastonbury competition, the place he performed his two different latest songs, “Recollections” ft. Willow and “The Funeral.” Subsequent month, he’ll jump over to Australia, New Zealand and Japan to shut his Life On Mars tour, and he’ll end off the yr with just a few North American competition appearances.
