JC
YUNGBLUD
Do you ever feel like people are trying to force you into a box?
Or that those same people are saying you’re this or you’re that and you absolutely cannot be more than one of those things?
Well, take a deep breath.
THOSE PEOPLE DO NOT KNOW WHO YOU ARE.
How can they when you don’t even know yourself?!?
The thing is, it’s that uncertainty we each have within us that gives those people such power. When we’re struggling to get a clear sense of our own identity, it becomes difficult to argue with someone who claims to see us with 20/20 vision!
You’ve got to be strong enough to stand up to those who want to define you. You are NOT a stereotype and you did NOT come out of a catalogue.
And the reason it takes all that forcing to get you into a box is because you don’t fit. You don’t belong in there. You’re bigger than that. WAY bigger. You can be one thing and you can be another and you can be something else.
These are the thoughts that always race through my head when I listen to YUNGBLUD.
His music has always reflected exactly who he is, and – from year to year – his songs sound so different to each other exactly because he’s not going to voluntarily climb into another box when he’s already spent so much of his life escaping exactly that kind of small space.
Just listening to his music makes me feel bigger, like I can stretch out, like I can see further than I could before. What’s important is the emotion at the heart of his music. And his songs are all connected. Maybe not by genre, but by how much they all mean.
To him.
To us.