Yungblud wrote his new song 'breakdown' whilst being "consumed" by "inexplicable darkness". The 'Fleabag' rocker says the brooding track, which started life as poem, is a stepping stone to where his new music is "heading” and vowed to "beat" the "darkness". In a lengthy statement about the toughest year of his life, he explained: “I wrote this song because it’s been the hardest year for me mentally.
I feel myself changing and throughout my life I’ve never felt good enough, it’s been the main thing that on the one hand has driven me forward but on the other, has eaten me up. For as long as I can remember I have felt constantly afraid of how quickly my head can turn dark. "It’s always been so hard to fight the darkness that I inevitably have.
A lot of people will say it’s a phase and it will go away. But it doesn’t and the reality of the situation is I have to find strategies to allow it to exist and to deal with it as a constant. Journalism for the curious Australian across politics, business, culture and opinion.
"A lot of us can feel like our lives are insignificant. We can feel like we have no purpose, so what is there to live for? The inexplicable darkness inside our heads can consume us. It can make it hard to get out of bed in the morning, force us to cancel plans, or back out of opportunities last minute.
" Yungblud heartbreakingly admits in the confessional lyrics that he had been feeling like wanting to “die before I open my eyes” – but now he see.
