Is rock ‘n’ roll dead? It’s the question we keep asking ourselves at Hot Pop Today. It’s also the question that many artists have been asking themselves, including the debaucherous young rocker Yungblud.
In an earlier interview with NME, the rock musician confessed that he believes the genre to be “on life support.” When asked by the media platform whether he believes this to be the case now, Yungblud backtracked.
“No, I think there’s been a re-awakening. I think bands like Bring Me the Horizon and artists like Billie Eilish, or artists like Juice WRLD are bringing it back to youth culture,” he explained. “And playing live instruments on stage, I genuinely believe that it’s cool to play the guitar again. Twenty-One Pilots, and artists like that, are bringing the energy back.
“I do think that in America, rock is becoming obsolete. I just think that because of the energy that hip-hop has right now, it’s almost overtaken it. Because at the end of the day, hip-hop is the new rock. It provides that sense of liberation, energy, and just outright freedom that rock used to.”
He then added: “My goal and my ambition is to make good old traditional rock’n’roll have a sense of energy and opinion again. Because there’s no f***ing opinions, it’s just kinda guacamole rubbish.”
Yungblud is on tour this fall.
