Honestly? What's The Point Of Yungblud? 

The reason I really enjoy these videos, is because it is a breath of fresh air to see someone being so positive, complimentary and educational when it comes to music and new artists. Kudos sir, kudos. Nothing but love.

This guys ability to throw shade without directly throwing it is as smooth as it gets :)

I love how all the yungblud fans are taking this as a serious sincere critique of yungblud and his music, whereas everybody else can clearly see Justin is taking the piss in the most subtle way possible. Or is he? you decide.

Absolutely great channel here Justin , really enjoying your take on these artists and songs - very interesting points throughout - I saw u guys headline the Loo festival in Cornwall or few years ago - tremendous memories - many thanks Sir and really enjoying listening to your recent stuff 2 - 🤘🏼

I genuinely can't decide if Justin is being genuinely complimentary or if he's taking the wholesale piss! If it's the latter, then it's very smartly done.

just stumbled upon your channel. it's mad refreshing how you express your opinions/critiques calmly and positively (avoiding the sensationalism so many other youtubers are plagued with). also, really appreciate how you actually play in order to illustrate your points and comparisons. subbed!

These videos and your analysis and the way you've taken up this new RU-vid channel is absolutely brilliant. I hope you see the messages because I am so impressed with what you are doing.

Loving these insightful videos, Justin. Please keep them coming. Making me listen to music with newfound perspectives. Also prompted me to revisit the debut album from The Darkness. What a great album. Thank you.

Really love this channel, you Justin makes my day brighter with your lightharted, polite way of making your point come thrue the web of everything. Really liked your older stuff and did not know you were back so gotta check out your never stuff now, keep'em comming. All the best from Norway...

An absolute masterclass in calling someone a c*** without actually calling them a c***. Spectacular!

Awesome!!! Love that you're doing this. Looking forward to more.

Thoroughly enjoyed this critique Justin look forward to the next one.

I love that Justin’s on youtube making videos like this. Incredible.

Very cleverly done, Justin... I love that you have a channel and look forward to more videos like this.

Longer videos please :) loving it, love ya.

As a Sheffield lad, it warms my heart to hear Justin talk about the North like that! Cheers mate!

Good work. I was lucky enough to photograph Yungblud in Liverpool a few weeks ago, up to that point I’d never heard of him. But now I’m intrigued by him and his music. I enjoyed your perspective. Great video.

Subscribed after seeing your content on Tiktok. Loving the videos so far! Looking forward to more! Thanks Justin.

Oh lord, the legend himself on RU-vid! Welcome mate!

I've only recently discovered your very awesome channel a few weeks ago and I'm enjoying going back through your earlier work. Loved you from The Darkness back in the day but I'm appreciating your channel as a music layman your observations and critiques are very educating... plus your wonderful playful personality comes through.

YungBlud is a softcore gateway to genuinely edgy music

Quite the synchronicity. I just watched the video for Fleabag for the first time this morning. I appreciate your insightful take on Yungblud and his music. Having studied in Newcastle for a year as an American studying abroad, there is definitely something different about the north of England. For more echoes of dad rock or classic rock, I would like to hear your take on the young Canadian band, Crown Lands. They list their influences as Rush, Led Zeppelin and Queen. Enjoying the channel!!

Thoroughly enjoying your Channel - Interesting perspectives, interesting subjects a refreshing bit of wit and a splash of laughs. The nuance is fucking rad. Killing it.

Absolutely love your video style man! Adore that you have your guitar on you to play stuff, love your voice and the way you speak too :)

Justin I know you’re doing just new stuff, but this video heavily referenced “Hedwig And The Angry Inch”. Have you ever considered digging in to a rock musical? I would love to hear your thoughts. There is a great film of the musical for reference. The film won best film that year at the Sundance Film Festival. The script was written by John Cameron Mitchell who starred in the role of Hedwig and directed the film; the music and lyrics are written by Stephen Trask who also leads the band (his band). I think at the time of the film it was his band Boys Against Girls.

I think (hope) Justin is being sincere here, it's no bad thing to make simple songs using tried and tested chord progressions and rhythms. I think it's wholesome seeing one generation of artist throw their support behind another.

I always found Soundgarden a bit tricky with all the dropped C tunings. Loving your angles on music theory.

The chord progression is also early Brian Adams', 'Run To You' which is unforgivable that you missed it 😂🔥

Literally nearly piddled me knickers when I found this channel! Can't afford Patreon, but know that if I could I'd be right there with ya. Props for the respect that you gave here xXx

I’ve just stumbled upon this. Had no idea Justin Hawkins had a channel . Never heard of Yungblud or the song in question but still found this highly entertaining on a number of levels. Clever humour, wit and musical chops . Something I’ve always appreciated about The Darkness too . Thanks Mr Hawkins !

Enjoying the channel, hope to see you in bham next month

I've just discovered this channel and it's made me so happy !!!

The possibilities for this channel are limitless. Name an artist and get a chill British guitar legend's opinion. This vid has made me rethink Yungblud as more than just an aesthetic. Thanks.

Hey Justin, your analyses of artists are really thoughtful and interesting. I'm really curious about your opinion of metal music. I would recommend Hammerfall and the song Hearts On Fire, if you are interested. Wish you all the best.

Love your take on this! Anything that brings Guitar driven music back to the mainstream is great.

I'm so glad you're still making music. You look a lot more healthy nowadays too :)

This was a totally fair analysis. I actually learned a lot from this video too about my own biases and hasty generalizations about people such as Yungblud.

I’d love to hear Justin’s opinion on Type O Negative

NICE 1 Juz! LOVE your work! MORE Darkness please! (Cos I believe in a thing called love! ) \m/

Yungblud sounds to me like just some more genetic, overproduced radio pop/rock... sounds and looks like something designed by a marketing team on a label.

We love you Justin honest intelligent and informative

"How a guitar should be tuned" Ahaha that tickled me - someone who currently has a 7 string in Drop G#Variant

Oh Justin, we love you dearly. This channel is amazing

Loved this m8. First time I've watched your channel. Subbed. Keep these up. 💪💪💪❤️

as a guitarist who mostly plays hardcore stuff in Drop D, this hurt to hear lmao i just like it. Underoath and ETID and those sorts of bands, can't get enough lol

You know he's gunnu find this, I have a feeling that you might have been someone he listened to growing up, I'm 26 and the darkness was one of my first albums my dad gave me, and honestly I was probably way to young but iv always loved your stuff! Iv resonated alot with yungblud and his interests that he's spoken about in interviews and I just know he's going to find this and freak out alittle bit!

This is great! Love the format!

lol. randomly came up with this video in my recommendations. i honestly like this. its kinda educational, funny and smart. take my abo, my dude. might just bingewatch RN

His Dad and Granddad owned a very prestigious guitar shop called Musicground in Doncaster ...they ripped me off once ...i bought a Rickenbacker 330 off them 30 odd years ago cash and £ 100 off for a trade in on a very good condition vintage Hofner Committee!! (giving me only £100 for a historic collectable guitar was a rip off on its own !!!) and they told me it didnt have the official Rickenbacker case that it was sold with but told me to come back the next week to pick it up as it was "in storage " ...when i went back they basically fobbed me off with a generic cheapo case rather than the real rickenbacker case....i argued but kinda got the feeling that id probably spend every Saturday trekking into Doncaster for the next 9 months to argue about it and there was no way id be seeing the case any time soon and as a young guy didnt know my consumer rights back then ...so i reluctantly accepted this non brand massive crappy unfitted case that the guitar rattled around in.....When i sold the guitar years later i remember the guy i sold it to knocking me down by £90 off my asking price as it didn't have the correct case and case candy....i thought about Justin and Rick Harrison that day I'll tell you I saved 2 years for that guitar ...wish i still had it but the council tax bill had to be paid last year so.. ...i'll never be able to afford another ... Interestingly years later they were both involved and convicted of selling stolen guitars it made the newspapers ... I never shopped there again after my bad experience ...they were always a bit sniffy and ignorant service wise as they dealt with rich guys and rockstars not your average player and i only got the Rickenbacker 330 off them because it was the only place i could get one without travelling all the was to a big city .....That was the impression i got.....so fuck them and fuck his weird looking sons "too cool for school" posh rich kid music lol

Permission To Land was the first album I ever bought with my own money, back when I was about 10. It came with a parental advisory sticker on so that instantly meant it was cooler than anything else. The Darkness were the soght of band I always wanted to be in when I was so immature and then I've followed them through breakups, breakdowns and reformations and now here's the JHawk being an all round great channel host. Every video is solid gold. Never stop shitting out solid gold, Justin.

I'm so pleased with your channel. There is something for the music snob and newbie. Delightful

You give me much joy Justin

You’re so covert in your communication I love it.

Personally cannot stand Yungblud as a musician or personality, he comes across as a confused poser, but I won't take it away from kids who enjoy what he does

Goddamn, finding out Justin has a channel like this is like Christmas!! If I liked Christmas that is.

Just found the channel. Can't wait to see ye in Cork in Feb Justin!!

Justin, let’s not forget “Smells Like Teen Spirit” borrowed heavily from Boston’s “More Than A Feeling”

I agree that I think you hear a lot more of the British punk influence in his early sound- the lyricism is really key on much of his first album's stuff. He did a live recording of his first album (Live in Atlanta) and I really love that album because you hear the early songs with more of the rock edge that he's developed into now. I think Yungblud is fascinating as an artist study because he had a very old school development. He wasn't popular with traditional labels and radio, he started very organically by playing small shows around Europe non-stop for nearly two years until he'd built a strong and dedicated following which then brought the attention of radio stations etc., I think that aspect of him also appeals to the more punk experience- the same with the rejection and judgement he faced early on, but especially the philosophy. I think Yungblud aims for a punk philosophy if not a truly punk sound. But your comment about the American influence was interesting because he works very closely with the same couple of people when writing and Yungblud admits he's a melody guy and gets an idea in his head but isn't great at working out the chords so he works a lot with Chris Greatti an American guitarist when developing his songs, so I wonder if that contributes a little. Also just a small fact check update- he came out as pansexual last year, further to that interview where he spoke about being sexually fluid but mostly straight. One of the great things about him is he is very open about how identity grows and evolves as you grow and he said stuff changed and he found that was the label he identified with. I agree that I think he's an important artist to have in the spotlight. I really admire that he has stated he loves music but his primary aim was always culture- to be some kind of artist that had an impact of culture and that is his motivating force. I appreciate your take on him.

Great video, I can see this channel doing v well. I would love to hear your thoughts on ice nine kills new album, plenty to talk about musically 🤟

Justin I've listened to your music for years and you was one of a few who inspired me to pick up the axe at 34 🤦can you please teach us how to play black shuck cos I'm missing something. Anyhow who better to ask than the man who made it 😁 fingers crossed

Love this idea Justin, I think it’s a great way for peeps who like ‘dad rock’ to get a perspective on new artists without having to endure mainstream stuff that doesn’t really appeal. Yungblud does indeed seem like a worthwhile listen!

I feel like I learn something new with every one of these, and you can’t put a price on that!

Maybe the north feels to matter more due to your time at Highfields. I remember seeing the embryo of the Darkness forming downstairs in the cottage.

Hey Justin, loving your videos! I got a thing for you... What about doing Arctic Monkeys Tranquility Base Hotel? Kind of drifted away from rock more recently but stumbled on this and found it quite refreshing!

I'd been turned off by the autotuned chart stuff of Yungblud, but one day found myself listening to Live In Atlanta and heard something I'd not heard in decades. A real energy, excitement and connection with the audience. I'm probably way to old to experience them live (40s) but it woke up something musically in me that had been missing.

Yea this song sounds remarkably like Teen Spirit, and not just the riff but the drums and arrangement as well. And yea he has more of an American punk aesthetic, though when you say technicolor punk I think of Poly Styrene.

I looked up the video to hear what you were talking about and his sound is like the Wish version of your description. What an amazing polishing of a turd!

Enjoyed your video, Justin! By the way: Not long after mentioning punk and Nickelback an ad showed up - it was Avril Lavigne's "Bite me" music video. Isn't she the wife of Nickelback's singer? Uncanny. The YT algorithm must have lost its digital "mind".

Music now is soo accessible compared to when Nickelback came out, so we had the likes of Kerrang and Scuzz on TV blaring the same songs over and over. Then the internet became quicker and then RU-vid/Spotify and the likes came along to give everyone access to every song ever released. From there, the only people that are over played to the point of creating a cringe effect, are artists that are radio friendly, but even then, the majority of people listen to what they want when they want it. As a fellow Norfolkian/East Anglican, I have always found Ed Sheeran to become the cringe of the nation by being a touch too radio friendly. Loved how The Darkness inspired us artists in East Anglia. Amazing to see that you are still about. Peace

I love these videos. And Leicester is in the East Midlands.

So happy I stumbled across this channel

I think he is heavily influenced by so much that has already been done. He has nothing original to show me. Even his moves and grimacing at the camera in 'Fleabag' is reminiscent of Keith Flint from Prodigy who had much more edge and seriousness. Speaking of seriousness, Yungblud kind of looks like his spoofing everything!!

Well, it's standard 4 chord pop song structure. Yungblud is as pop as it gets imo. I'm not sure if he's even an artist that writes their own stuff. Find his music boring. But I like him as a person when I've seen him interviewed. Seems down to earth.

I'd love to see the legendary white Les Paul in the next video. You've filleted the flesh from my face several times with it at live shows here in California. Still the best live shows I've experienced!

Omgoodness ... Justin on RU-vid! YOUR dangerously charismatic. My dreams came true 😘

I've worked a couple of his shows and got paid reasonably and on time . That's a good enough point for me .👍

Nirvana meets Keith from the Prodigy.

Love the channel BTW. Top bloke Justin.

When I was at Uni in Sheffield my band mate had to explain to a local band that North of Watford wasn’t ‘the north’. North of Watford Gap service station was. My band mate (we were all Southern) then asked him the name of his band to which he relied North of Watford. Amazing city Sheffield, when people ask me what Uni was like I make a point of mentioning I considered myself a local not a student.

I got a bootleg cd of The Darkness about a year before you became big. I told my wife "these are ganna be massive ", and she laughed. It often comes up in conversation, how right I was 👍🤭

Youngblud is one of the worst examples of modern "punk" out there. There's nothing unique or redeeming about it

That Charvel is superb! Great channel - keep it up rocker!

Yungblud with bring me the horizon OBEY was a great sound for both of them. Defo analyse that. It's amazing

Hasn’t got a clue who he was until a few weeks ago, until he was in a video with a skateboarder. He seemed a really nice kid, I watch some of his stuff and he’s a bit of a blast of fresh air. I’m way out his target audience age wise but his music great and really enjoy seeing a genuinely nice guy make a good go of it in the business.

YES Justin I've been rallying around in my head trying to confirm these similarities! I love hearing your thoughts, Yungblud is bloody amazing. BTW LONG LIVE THE DARKNESS

Tbh I love Dom and never gonna change that 🖤🖤 punk is being free and doing what you wanna do I went to see him like 3 days ago in Charlotte

Was anyone else reminded of the intro to I love rock n roll (Joan jett and the blackhearts version) when Justin played the chorus

He is exactly what the young need . An imitation,that’s enough today .can’t wait to hear what he’s going to do with that Stravinsky tune he’s got rattling around in his head exlax on proplus in minor E .

I’m inclined to agree with your views of punk rock, however, don’t forget about the hardcore punk scene, which had a very lasting and influential effect.

Nice appraisal again...Would love to hear your take on 'The Lemon Twigs' particularly their latest upload to youtube, a live version of their song 'Ashamed'?

Excellent analysis Justin! You are quickly becoming the best music channel on RU-vid!

Having watch JHRA, I have revisited The Darkness' catalog, and I must say I have found a new level of respect and appreciation for the band and their songs....that's saying something for an "early 90s Seattle is everything" dude like me

Wow ! Checked out Fleabag because of this video. Truly impressed. Yes I hear Nevemind but lots of other influences too. As for the visual I see Pink and Kurt Wild from Velvet Goldmine., Keith Flint from Prodigy. Very sexual .....

Also alike to you talking about Drop D tuning, my dad went to planet rockstock or whatever it’s called 😂 on the weekend and he was saying about how many bands used that tuning?

Justin is (roughly) my age, so I get what he’s saying. It’s good to see new acts coming through, though their influences are more hidden in a way. They tend to have heard samples of much older songs without realising it. It’ll be good to see how it goes.

Would be really cool to see an analysis of the darkness albums and how approaches to singing/song writing/guitar playing/different themes has evolved over the years. Big fan. See you in December!! 🤘

The thing that's always fascinated me, watching popular music ebb and flow (and evolve) over the years, is catching the obvious influence or recycled riff, and seeing where the musician runs with it. Honestly, this song musically doesn't do much for me...lyrically I appreciate the raw emotion and he, for sure, has the imagery down stone cold, but beyond that? The last video/song that completely blew my mind out the back of my head was Lady Gaga's Bad Romance. That was sheer, unadulterated genius, and I don't use "genius" lightly -- start to finish that lady is a phenomenon. I guess what I'm blabbering on about is that outside of my metal/hard rock milieu, much of pop and pop rock, in general, mystifies me...it seems kinda meh (with the recent exception of Silk Sonic...cause....hot damn). 😉😁

Mate that was mint, entertainment of the highest quality 👌👏 I'd love for you to dissect one my tunes 😂😂😂😂😂 would be hilarious 😆

Thank you for making this video my dude! So glad you apreciate the yungblud! I feel I will learn a lot about guitar playing seeing this, subscribing now!

I really enjoy the way you talk about music. Very lucid, unpretentious, knowledgeable, and full of passion. More please!