Whereas discussing his newest studio album Idols, the British musician Yungblud likened the report to a saving grace. “This album was virtually like my final likelihood,” he just lately advised Rolling Stone. “If I hadn’t been positive of what I used to be making, I don’t assume there would’ve been a approach again for me.” However whereas he was contemplating which path may carry him again, he was additionally intent on paving a lane that might transfer him into the longer term and form his legacy in the method. Yungblud grapples with all of it in the primary trailer for his forthcoming documentary Yungblud: Are You Prepared, Boy?, in theaters Aug. 20 and 24.
“We’ve been away for a 12 months now. It’s like, ‘All proper, let’s go,’” Yungblud says in the clip. “I really feel like I’m crusing uncharted waters. I want to determine who I’m as an grownup, as a person.” The 27-year-old feels the stress swelling from the within out. It’s not solely his legacy on the road from an inner perspective, but additionally the expectations of the viewers he’s amassed over time. “I feel I’m letting everybody down,” he says. “Sure, I’m. Sure, I’m.” In some methods, that’s what Idols is all about — a sure freedom from exterior stress. “If that is the very last thing you might be ever going to say,” he continues, “guarantee that it’s every little thing that you simply’ve ever needed to depart behind.”
Are You Prepared, Boy? was directed by Paul Dugdale and brings collectively behind-the-scenes footage with a dozen reside performances from Idols. The movie was produced by B.R.A.T Productions in affiliation with Aldgate Footage and can display in 30 nations internationally via Trafalgar Releasing.
“I needed to make a movie that really paperwork the place we’re proper now, at this second, across the launch of my most formidable album to date,” Yungblud shared in a current assertion in regards to the movie. “Berlin has at all times radiated full, unfiltered reality. Each time I’ve visited Hansa Studios, it’s simply fucking iconic. You can really feel the historical past in Hansa; it’s in the silence between takes, the ceiling looming over you. You’re standing in the shadows of all these legends and asking your self ‘Who the fuck am I? And what am I gonna depart behind?’”
Dugdale added, “After we made this movie, it was in that particular twilight zone between the report being completed and folks listening to it for the primary time. I at all times consider that second earlier than a launch as such a novel time for an artist, and it’s a rare interval to doc as a result of we will enter into it with none exterior noise or pre-conception. It allowed us to make one thing unaffected by the surface world, and there’s a extremely pleasing purity about that. We received to reside in a second with Dom, freed from any exterior opinion and begin a relationship from a completely clean canvas.”
