- "Here's a story from A to Z."
(mumble singing)
Yeah, (beep) banger.
Hello, what's going on?
I'm Yungblud and I'm playing a game of
song association, round two with Elle.
I'll be given a word
and then I'll be given 10 seconds to sing
or rap that word within a song.
I've done this once before and I wasn't amazing last time.
So I'm open for improvement this time.
But before we get into the game
me album came out on September 2nd, so check it out!
If you've heard it, I hope you love it.
If you haven't go check it out, I dare ya.
(singing) LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA.
Cut.
(singing) "First cut is the deepest.
Baby, I know!"
First Cut Is the Deepest.
I only know the Rod Stewart version
because I remember when I was a kid
my Nan lied to me for 10 years of my life
and told me that Rod Stewart was me grandfather.
I know!
This is why I have problems.
This is why I look the way I look.
I went into a shopping center called Asda in the UK
that's a little bit like, I don't know, Ralphs.
I was going shopping with me Nan
and I remember picking up a CD
like a traumatized young child going "Nan! It's granddad."
Why have I not met him?
Why is he not coming home?
And then me Nan just got really embarrassed on the tilt
and then later told me that Rod Stewart
was in fact, not my grandfather.
Scare.
(singing) Teenagers scare the living (beep) out of me.
My Chemical Romance, "Teenagers".
I used to watch that on Kerrang TV every day.
And I remember loving that video
'cause they were all in like gas masks
and like red curtains.
And it was a vibe, and I loved that song.
It made me angry.
Sad.
(singing) "I don't feel like feeling sad today."
That's one of my songs there, and the song is about like
getting yourself out bed in the morning
and just, I remember I was just like exhausted
about feeling sad, you know?
Like having a knot in my stomach.
I was just like, what can we do that nobody else can?
And we basically pulled up a lory into the middle of London,
told people to meet me there, about 2,000 people turned up.
Told people to bring water pistols
and we'll have a water fight.
And then yeah, before the police shut us down,
we got free takes and it was a great video.
But apparently the Chief Inspector's daughter
is into the music.
So they kind of had to let it happen
or like it would've been like, "Dad, you're so (beep) lame."
"Why'd you shut it down?"
So it was kind of like a
"yo, gimme three takes and I'll (beep) off.
Should.
(singing) "Should I stay or should I go?"
(singing) "If I go, there will be trouble,
but if I stay there will be double."
The Clash, (beep) love The Clash.
Joe Strummer.
It was the first time I heard like politics
and things about the world been sung in songs
without being like preached to
by someone like down the pub in a Def Leppard t-shirt.
Like, the world is (beep) and you're like, whoa, man.
You know? I mean, I was like listening to like Joe Strummer
and what they represented.
I remember like Joe Strummer and Paul Simonon
like just completely changing my life.
Wanna.
(singing) "If you wanna be my lover
you gotta get with my friends."
(singing) "here's a story from A to Z."
(mumble singing)
Yeah, (beep) banger.
Classic record.
I love the Spice Girls.
I just love what they did with merch, it was so smart.
I reference the Spice Girls for merch all the time.
I probably shouldn't say that,
'cause it's like a secret of mine.
Know.
(singing) "I don't know where I am, I don't know where I am,
don't know where I am.
"They said I'm a ana-ana-anarchist, I'm a anarchist,
not like the other kids."
Yeah, that was an early song of mine.
I loved that first album.
This was like one of the first songs where I said to people
like, I feel so isolated and I feel
so alone in my feelings in the world.
Like, is there anyone out there like me?
'Cause I think that was the thing with Yungblud, like,
I think that's what the most beautiful thing about it.
Like, if you know me, if you don't, it's not about me.
It's, I always say, if you wanna come to a Yungblud show
and you wanna really understand what it means
don't look at me, look at them.
Name.
(singing) "Hi, my name is, what? My name is.
Chka-chka Slim Shady."
Banger.
I love this song.
So naughty.
And I kind of went on a journey with that record
and it taught me to say (beep) in my songs.
I think if you're not saying things in your music,
you're not an artist, you're a singer.
And that's all right.
You know what I mean?
But I always wanted to be an artist
because I grew up an artist like that.
Here.
(singing) "If I lay here, if I just lie here
would you lie with me and just forget the world?"
Like I remember getting in a car with me granddad.
He would always play old school music
but then he would put that Snow Patrol song on, in the car.
Act.
(singing) "You're way too hot to be acting like that,
acting like that."
Look at that head bop.
(singing) "acting like that."
Another one of mine, I did that with Machine Gun Kelly
and Travis Barker.
Yeah, that was a cool song.
I loved making it.
It was great.
I remember we'd been out on a massive, mental night
and just came back and were like,
we just want to reflect the energy.
Saw someone be sick on someone's face once.
When we came, when we played a gig together.
Like, we played upstairs in a club
and Travis was there on that occasion actually.
And someone in front of my face
just threw up on someone else, I was like.
California.
(singing) "Dream of Californiacation."
Too controversial opinion
I'm not a massive Chili's fan.
Respect what they did.
Love Flea though, Flea's like me spirit animal.
Incredible musicians though.
Boys.
(singing) "But boys don't cry."
I love this band, I love this song,
I love the message, I love the singer.
He's literally the reason why I wear eyeliner.
The Cure, "Boys Don't Cry."
That feeling of happy-sad that they kind of pioneered.
Such sad lyrics with such a beautiful melody
and an understanding and a feeling about it.
I just fell in love instantly.
And the new album, this new record
takes a lot of influence from that scene.
Blood.
(whisper scream) "Raining blood."
Slayer.
Sorry.
I like metal music, a lot of people think I don't.
You know, I mean I've met Kerry King once.
He has the biggest arms.
Wish.
(singing) "I wish I could just let go
of all the memories I know."
Another one of mine.
I'm quite greedy.
Go stream "Memories."
I did that song with Willow.
I love Willow, I think she's sick.
Proper badass, true artist I think.
Friday.
(singing) "Tuesdays great and Wednesday too
Oh Thursday, I don't care about you.
It's Friday, I'm in love."
Sorry.
I'm not sorry, I (beep) love the way he sings.
(singing) "Friday, I'm in love."
So sick.
Read.
(singing) "Don't believe what you read."
Not a song, just a (beep) statement.
(clock ticking) Um.. read.
Read?
Read.
(buzzer ringing) I don't know read, (beep) man.
Body.
(singing) "Use somebody."
(singing) "Someone like you."
(instrumentation noises)
(beep) hell man, you've got like,
everyone's gonna meme this shit now.
I'm going.
Boyfriend.
(singing) "If I was your boyfriend, I'd never let you go."
Is that Bieber?
- [Producer] It is.
- Oh my God, J-Bizzle, attractive man.
I'd kiss him.
Don't know if he'd kiss me though.
Worry
(singing) "Don't worry about a thing,
'cause every little thing is gonna be all right."
So basically right?
Bob Marley makes me feel like I can be on holiday.
Where I grew up, it was (beep) miserable all year.
You know what I mean?
It was raining all the time, but then you'd go
a holiday resort and it's like, oh my god it's sunny
and I'm like on holiday.
But when you become a touring musician,
you're (beep) in hot, cold, hot, cold,
hot, cold every week.
So I had nothing to be like, I'm on holiday.
Except Bob Marley now.
Child.
(singing) "I feel left out, like a child.
Every time you are close,
every time that you walk through the door."
Got to sample The Cure, "Close To Me"
and that was like a dream come true to me.
And I got to talk to Robert Smith.
I'm at the NME awards in 2019, and I'm sat down
and I'm in the room.
I can see Robert Smith with his big hair cut.
You know what I mean? I'm like, whoa, that's Robert Smith.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
So I keep looking over just to see if I can catch his eye.
And I took me mom to the NME awards because I was like,
which is probably a bit of a mistake.
'Cause at the award shows it's the naughtiest.
And what I look over, I'm like where the (beep) my mom gone?
She's talking to Robert Smith.
And I'm like, what, (beep).
I go over and they're actually having a good conversation.
Met Robert Smith and then got in, stayed in contact
with him 'till then.
So thanks mum.
Sometimes he's gotta take your mum to a naughty award show.
Rock.
(singing) "We will, we will rock you."
Boom-boom, cha, ba-boom-boom, cha.
(Beep) banger, Freddy Mercury, absolutely everything to me.
I remember the first moment I got told by someone
I could like maybe do this as a career,
I was on my bed listening to probably not that song.
I think it was like "Hammer To Fall"
'cause I was a massive Queen fan from like young.
And I remember me mom was peeking through the thing
and I came into the kitchen.
I probably about, no, I was probably about 12 then.
11, 12, and I walked into the kitchen
and me mom was like, you good at that you know?
I was like, what?
And she was like, performing like that.
I was like, what?
You were watching that?
And I was proper embarrassed.
But also in my head, I was like,
when you hear that from someone
it's like a moment you don't forget.
(Beep) killer.
- [Producer] Yeah.
- [Yungblud] 19 out of 20.
I'm not that bad at this game, you know?
And I couldn't cheat, 'cause last time I filmed it at home.
Thank you so much for taking the time out of your day
to watch me do song association.
I hope you loved it.
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