YUNGBLUD

As YUNGBLUD makes his defiant return to Dublin, we catch up with the Doncaster star to discuss Ireland, Putin, Lewis Capaldi, WILLOW, “pissing off an older.

“At the end of the day, I know I’m just a fucking rockstar, and I don’t have any solution for it. “The world is a place full of so much hate, violence and horror,” he notes. “Everything comes down to love at the end of the day. “That’s why I’ve got these tattoos on my middle fingers,” he says, holding his fingers emblazoned with the famous black hearts up to the camera. You’ve got to fight, and you’ve got to get in trouble, and get in disagreements.” “It gets to a point when you’re like, ‘I don’t know how the fuck this happened, and I don’t know how to navigate it.’ “To put a formula on something is literally the antithesis to what rock ‘n’ roll is about. “So I thought it was about time for me to reclaim the humanity within it, because that’s what I believe gave it such a strong rise,” he continues. “I listened to a lot of The Smiths, The Cure, the Pistols, the Ramones, and new wave in New York,” he says. It’s so easy to wave a flag in the air and take credit, but that’s not how you change things. “YUNGBLUD became a caricature to the world because he got bigger than anything I could control,” Dominic tells me. “I can’t wait to come back to Ireland,” he adds.