British rocker YUNGBLUD explains why British food isn't actually bad, calls Florence Pugh "one of the most exciting British artists," and spills new details about his upcoming studio album 'IDOLS.'
0:30 — British food
2:31 — Music
4:25 — Florence Pugh
5:39 — War Movies
6:38 — Tattoos
8:07 — Summer vacation
0:30 — British food
2:31 — Music
4:25 — Florence Pugh
5:39 — War Movies
6:38 — Tattoos
8:07 — Summer vacation
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00:00We didn't really want to adhere to, like, oh, these...
00:04Fucking police, man.
00:05Trying to find me, aren't they?
00:07I'm telling you.
00:08I've done some naughty shit this week in New York.
00:10Anyway, sorry.
00:11Sorry, you can fucking say that.
00:14Nothing illegal.
00:15Just naughty.
00:17Hello, Rolling Stone. How's it going?
00:19I'm Youngblood and this is my recommendations.
00:30I'm sick of the fucking myth that British food is shit.
00:35Especially America's emeralds are like, hey, British food.
00:37It's amazing.
00:38You've got to think the size of England is like the size of New York.
00:41So, like, it's all locally sourced food.
00:44I would definitely go for a Sunday roast.
00:46It's like Thanksgiving every Sunday.
00:48Because it just hits the spot.
00:50You get beef, horseradish, gravy, carrots.
00:53Sorry to the vegans, but, like, duck fat potatoes, rock salt on them,
00:57gravy, red cabbage if you're posh.
01:00Nice pint.
01:01It'll sort you out.
01:02Especially when it's cold and raining.
01:04Warm you up.
01:05Look at them.
01:06Look at them.
01:07Look at the birds.
01:08Look at the roasties.
01:09Oh, classic.
01:10Mmm.
01:11There are some viral videos going around.
01:13Go on then.
01:19They've all been getting a bit fucking naughty.
01:21Everyone's like, let's do a shot.
01:23I've had, like, half a bottle of whiskey in 20 minutes.
01:26Everyone's like, let's do a shot.
01:27And I can't say no, can I?
01:28So the more drunk I get, the more naughty I get.
01:31It started because I was a little bit lonely in London.
01:35And my favorite pub is about a five minutes walk from my house,
01:38called the All The Arms in Camden.
01:40Everyone's like, yo, you should work a shift to celebrate the song.
01:44Of course the corporate bollocks has got to get involved
01:47and take a wholesome moment and make it fucking promotion.
01:50I did it, like, two nights later.
01:52And we went down and we just had a party in London.
01:55And it's just been giving me a little bit of life and a bit of energy
01:57and a bit of reality.
01:58She does feed me the lime.
01:59She was like, can I feed you the lime?
02:01I was like, all right.
02:02People have been pretty inappropriate.
02:04I'm not going to lie to you.
02:05Like, can I order you?
02:06I'm like, that is not original.
02:07No, you fucking can't.
02:08You can have a drink.
02:09Everyone started putting 20s in me little fucking waistband as well.
02:12I'm like, I'm not, you know what I'm saying?
02:14I'm not going to take my clothes off.
02:16Maybe if my fucking music's, like, just shite,
02:19I'll have to take my clothes off for it, not just bartend.
02:23Nightmare.
02:24He's like, you're a fucking nightmare.
02:26I run my mouth too much in interviews.
02:28I love it.
02:32All-time greats.
02:33Bowie, Lou Reed, Iggy Pot, Sex Pistols, Lady Gaga, Nine Inch Nails,
02:39Depeche Mode, Ozzy Osbourne.
02:41I've never got to see him play live, but I will soon.
02:44He's doing their last Sabbath gig.
02:46Gave me this necklace, actually.
02:48I wear it every day, because he was in my music video
02:51and he ran me over with a car.
02:53The fuck was that?
02:54Just some fucking poser.
02:56I'd run him over again then.
02:58And he gave me this, and he was just, I hope it brings you luck.
03:00He's definitely brought me, he's given me something.
03:03Tetanus.
03:04No, I'm joking.
03:06I just would love to be a fly on the wall every time Gaga walks into a team
03:11and goes, right, this is what we're doing next.
03:13She's just herself, isn't she?
03:15You know what I mean?
03:16She's mad.
03:17She has a beautiful mind and a limitless imagination, you can tell.
03:22I've been on a little bit of an old-school kick,
03:25a little bit of country music, old-school Merle Haggard, Hank Williams.
03:29I like this new song, Moody, by Royal Otis.
03:32I've been listening to a lot of albums, start to finish.
03:35You know, I really wanted Idols.
03:38Our new album, we wanted to do something without form
03:41that would have a through line through it.
03:42An attempt to make something classic and timeless.
03:45You know, we wanted to instrumentally not use anything
03:49that would be adherent to a period.
03:51You know what I mean?
03:52I think we were listening to a lot of Pink Floyd,
03:53we were listening to a lot of Rumors, a lot of Led Zeppelin.
03:55I wanted to build a world that would allow you to go on an adventure
04:00that would question the fundamentals of humanity.
04:03Time, change, life, death, and comprehending mortality.
04:09All I want to do is make people feel something.
04:12I really didn't care about, like, bangers or making something catchy or instant.
04:18I actually think this is my least instant album.
04:20You know, I feel like people on day one might be like,
04:22what the fuck has he done here?
04:27Florence Pugh, in my opinion, is one of the most exciting British artists in a long time, I think.
04:33She has this individuality that is not adherent to anyone else.
04:37Like, she is completely legit and individual within her own style in her own time.
04:44When I wrote the song Zombie, I knew I had to have a really important British artist in the video
04:52because the song is so deep, so emotional, but so fundamentally English.
04:57You know, I was, like, mind blown watching her on set.
04:59And she's just a legend.
05:01You can tell, man, she's just sat in a pub on a Sunday with a pint of Guinness, talking shit.
05:06And this song is about losing my grandparents.
05:09My grandmother died of alcoholism and she was the most epic, effervescent woman.
05:16Like, she taught me how to wear leopard print and that, you know what I mean?
05:19To watch her kind of fade was really hard for me and my family
05:23because she was such a main character within it.
05:26And I wrote this song about kind of not being able to comprehend losing someone, you know?
05:32Fucking hell, that's me grandma.
05:36She's fucking spooky bitch, my grandma. I love her.
05:41I really like war movies.
05:42Like, I ain't chilling.
05:43I ain't sitting in me fucking tour bus watching Notting Hill.
05:46I'm watching, like, Saving Private Ryan at 10 in the morning.
05:49Like, ah, my fucking leg.
05:51I think I can put it back in.
05:53Ah!
05:54Anything Ridley Scott.
05:55Guy Ritchie.
05:56So I like Lord of the Rings and fantasy shit.
05:59Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones, Harry Potter.
06:02Shame the writer's a twat.
06:05It's fucking true though, innit?
06:06I don't know why.
06:07It's just my thing.
06:08It's like me and my dad's thing.
06:09I like anything World War II.
06:11I would love to be in a war movie.
06:13If there's any casting directors out there, please hit me up.
06:16Do you know what I want to be in?
06:17DC movie.
06:18I want to play, like, the Riddler.
06:20Please, DC.
06:21Give me a fucking shot.
06:26You know what I'm saying?
06:27Something shit like that.
06:28This chair's wild.
06:30You gotta get a new fucking chair.
06:32Rolling Stone, man.
06:33You fucking loaded magazine and you give me this shit.
06:35Times are hard at Rolling Stone.
06:41I really like getting tattooed.
06:42It was a dream that Mark Mahoney did all my tattoos.
06:45Like, calling the godfather of tattooing.
06:47Real artist, you know what I mean?
06:48I love this one.
06:49He did no stencil on this.
06:51I like my tramp stamp.
06:53Even though it looks like it says weed, it doesn't.
06:55It says weep with a P.
06:57Don't forget to live.
06:58About being present in life.
06:59Not letting things pass you by.
07:01You know, I think we can get so distracted.
07:03Like, you wake up, you turn your phone on,
07:04you compare yourself to 15 different people before breakfast.
07:07You forget to live.
07:09What's the recovery like?
07:11Pull me second skin off after about six hours.
07:13Get in the shower and I go...
07:16And I wash it.
07:17And then I put cream on.
07:18Don't put scented cream on, no.
07:20Or don't put...
07:21What's the, um...
07:22What's the bollocks one?
07:23Aquaphor, don't do that.
07:24Make your ink drop out.
07:25I put a vino on it.
07:27A little bit of Aquaphor's alright, but not too much
07:29because I think it'll make your ink fall out.
07:31That's what I've heard anyway.
07:32From the pros.
07:34So if you're all coming after me in the comments section,
07:36it's not my fault.
07:38I got my first tattoo.
07:39It's an elephant on my arse.
07:41And it's 16.
07:42And then I got these fingers tattoos in LA.
07:45I think I was about 17.
07:47And my fan base call themselves a black arts club.
07:49And I got these on my fingers and posted it on the internet.
07:52I think there's probably like half a million black art tattoos now,
07:55which is sick.
07:56The world was telling me what I am.
07:58What I couldn't be or what I should be.
08:00It was so frustrating.
08:01The most beautiful thing about a tattoo is you get to completely reinvent yourself.
08:08Summer vacation.
08:11Do you know what I like?
08:12I like the Bahamas.
08:13It's a place called Harbour Island.
08:14Don't put on shoes for a week.
08:16I try to chill, but then everyone I'm with is just like,
08:20yo, will you just calm down?
08:22Because I'm like fidgeting.
08:23I want to go somewhere all the time.
08:25I like the Amalfi Coast in Italy.
08:27Good food on the Amalfi Coast.
08:29Fucking tomatoes are like the size of pumpkins.
08:32And then I'm like, yo, ciao, Italia.
08:34Is that a fucking pumpkin?
08:35No, it is a tomato.
08:37Are you crazy?
08:38Are you English crazy?
08:39I ain't taking a vacation in a while.
08:41I want one now, but like, I've just started an album campaign, so I'm fucked.
08:45I think that last vacation I had, I was in Marbella.
08:48And I wish I'd chilled more.
08:50It was a little bit more of a party time.
08:52I am on vacation.
08:53I'm in New York.
08:54I'm not from here.
08:56New York has been a cruel mistress.
08:58Everyone's been dragging me out because everyone's here.
09:00I'm into New York.
09:01I could move here.
09:02It's effervescent and energetic, I think.
09:05Like, it's not sad even when it's raining.
09:07London can get a bit sad, a bit mopey.
09:10But New York, it's raining and everyone's like, let's fucking have it.
09:15Do you know what I love about New York is they're honest.
09:17Someone will just come up to me and like, I like your outfit.
09:19Someone will come up to me like, you look, I could swat today.
09:21And I like that you can get a good slice of pizza any time of day.
09:24Scars Pizza, actually.
09:25You've been to Scars Pizza?
09:27Yeah, yeah, you're nodding, aren't you?
09:29My fucking grandmother, do you hear that?
09:31This is going to be fun to cut around.
09:33Please make it a fun cut.
09:34Fucking legends, man.
09:36I fucking enjoyed that.
09:40And I love sick lullaby.
09:44Love sick lullaby.
09:47Love sick lullaby.