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Yungblud hasquickly made a name for himselfin the music scene, and he’s got a lot of major names cheering him on and giving him advice.
The 24-year-old told PEOPLE at the iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas on Saturday that Robert Smith of The Cure andLiam GallagherofOasisboth told him to be authentically himself. He also got very similar advice when he hung out withAvril Lavigneearlier this year.
“She’s amazing, man. She’s very much, very much about me kind of doing my own path to do my own trajectory, not following trends and not following things,” Yungblud shared. “I think that’s it. I think with it all, everything’s subject to a trend right now, and I think for me personally, the definition of a trend is that it’s meant to die, man.”
Perhaps it’s no coincidence that the artists he loves and respects also did it their own way.
“The bands I love, like The Cure, The Smiths, Joy Division, Blondie,Madonna,Lady Gaga, they did their own thing, they followed their own path. They followed it relentlessly, they followed it without excuse, they followed it without apology,” he said. “That’s what I want to do.”
“I did have a rockstar moment. I mean, what even is a rockstar moment? I was mad. I couldn’t hear anything. So I had a little bit of a tantrum then,” he said. “It was cool. It was fun and nice. I apologized. My boys, I bought them a beer afterwards after I smashed the joint up, but they were laughing. They were just like, ‘We live for this.'”
In continuing to do things his way, Yungblud also revealed that he’s releasing two albums soon, neither of which were previously announced.
“Two new albums are coming like babies, calledMidwives, and I’m touring across America in January. It’s not announced yet, but I’m just telling everyone tonight because I’ve had a couple of beers,” he said. “I’m happy to be in America. I’ve actually missed The States so much. I’ve been literally sitting in the U.K., and I’ve had too much fish and chips and tea, I think.”
source: people.com
