Yungblud has launched his harrowing new single, which explores his expertise of sexual abuse as a baby. Try ‘Hated’ beneath.

The singer – actual title Dominic Harrison – got here ahead to open up about his expertise yesterday (August 23), telling followers concerning the time he was sexually abused by a health care provider when he was simply seven years outdated.

Within the social media replace, he additionally revealed that he had by no means informed anybody concerning the incident till he ultimately admitted it to his producer whereas writing the brand new observe. He later described ‘Hated’ as being “essentially the most private factor I’ve ever launched”.

Out at present (August 24), the observe additionally comes alongside a placing and highly effective music video, which exhibits Yungblud singing on to the digicam and highlighting the tragic particulars of his expertise.

“[Your mum is] in all probability discovering out now within the line to your present / Why you’ll by no means belief a man in a tie and a coat,” he sings within the opening verse. “However you don’t wish to do what your daddy did / Bury it deep down maintain it beneath your pores and skin/ So you set pen and paper, made a verse of it.”

The lyrics additionally see the 26-year-old musician recall his rise in reputation as an artist, exploring how he realised he had “made it” when he began to see individuals disliking him.

“Proper now so far as fashionable opinion goes / You’re a fancy, queer-baiting, indulgent arsehole,” he sings. “Some individuals will thirst on watching you bleed / And that’s when you realize that you just made it /You made it while you’re hated.”

Discussing the which means behind the track in his social media replace, Yungblud described the only as “a rallying cry and an exposition of the soul”.

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— YUNGBLUD is a lowlife (@yungblud) August 23, 2023

He continued: “The track is finally about releasing your self from unhealthy experiences and trauma. discovering inside power. acknowledging your previous, accepting the ache and having the braveness to not let it outline your future.”

‘Hated’ follows his latest single ‘Lowlife’, which he beforehand described as marking the beginning of a “new period” in his music.