This is literally the interview he talks about now of when he first came to the us. Is so crazy to see how far he’s come. Like he doesn’t even have the black hearts tatted yet
What I don't understand is him beeing in Disney channel... It just stands quite opposite to what his music and attitude stands for. I just find it too Strange.... I cannot Shake the feeling of a carefully manufactured image and personality displayed on camera and stage... I may be wrong and too messed up to appreciate a good person like him but it has a feeling of unrealness for me somehow... there are too much phrases he almost always says in interviews ... It just doesn't wary much ... I just don't know ... I love his music though.
I kind of thought the same thing I was like "oh, he's an actor, what if this is an act?" but then I learned he moved to London at 16 and he probably needed to take the job to survive and you can't fault him for that you take any work you can get nowadays. Even if it does turn out to be an act (which I very much doubt now at this point) at least it's something that might awaken the fight in others. I was getting so disheartened that no one my age seemed to be picking up the baton from the punk and emo days but by chance I found yungblud and he's given me a ray of hope amidst the dullness of conformity in the music industry.
@@rocki3dd There really is something special about him and I've not seen that in a long time I know it's early days but he's akin in attitude to many past great artists from the golden age of music, I can't wait to see him progress musically over time 😊
Jasmin Fiß I totally get that. What I’ll say is that as probably one of his oldest fans (I’m 36! Lol) I think I have a pretty good read on people at this point. This guy is really, REALLY young, and at 16 you do things you wouldn’t do at 22. I felt the same way you did when I saw old pictures of him and he looks like such a bro, he was on Disney channel, etc and I think it is easy to conclude “this is all fake.” But then he talks quite a bit about how he felt like he had to conform when he was younger, he was trying to be someone he was not and then after someone called him out (if I recall correctly it was a producer that said “I can’t help you; you are trying to be Ed Sheeran and it’s fake,, he does it 10 times better than you because that’s who he really is”), that’s when he went on kind of that search for his real identity like we all have done. Yes, a lot of us including myself went punk at a younger age than he did but if you had a picture or video of me before that and things I was doing, I was the exact same way. I knew I wanted to be a performer and I was trying to be what I was told to be and what people told me I should be, and then I realized that that wasn’t working because that wasn’t who I really was. It was in punk rock that I felt like I was my true self. I see that very much in Dom. You can also see this in Lady Gaga- she is a rich kid who went to private school with Paris Hilton, she was on a terrible MTV show before getting famous, she was not always the way she is- but both she and Dom are very sincere people and performers. The kicker for me that really makes me convinced is how they can both hold conversations about what they believe in, what they write about and who they are. Someone who was faking it wouldn’t be able to do that. The repetition in the responses you sometimes hear are from people asking the same questions and from trying to give consistent answers (remember that as a celebrity you are constantly being scrutinized and if you say one thing in one interview and another thing in a second interview, people will use that to take you down, so there I think are some key points or phrases used to keep a level of consistency or that his management is telling him to make sure to say in every interview or whenever he’s asked a certain question). The smoke and mirrors is often not with the performer themselves but with whoever is making money off of them (their management, label, etc) and then the blame falls on them. If he’s faking all of this he deserves an academy award imo and could have just been an actor instead of a musician. This is all my opinion but as someone who grew up living and breathing punk rock, I have seen a lot of fake bands and fake punk appropriation and I think Dom is the real deal.
Jasmin Fiß Same here. I’m 28 also and Dom has saved my life with his words and his music. I’m not even being a tiny bit hyperbolic. He has had such a major impact on me over the last couple of years.
