YUNGBLUD returns with nine-minute single: “It’s seen as a ‘risk’… but without risk, there is no innovation”

YUNGBLUD is back with a genuinely epic new rock opera single.

The 27-year-old’s first new music of 2025 goes by the name Hello Heaven, Hello and racks up a whopping nine-minute rollercoaster run-time, with the singer admitting that, “I’ve been discouraged from releasing a nine-minute and six second song as my first move back in a year because, in the modern world, it’s seen as a ‘risk’. I don’t see it that way at all – I see it as an opportunity. In my opinion, risk is an artist’s greatest tool – putting everything on the line in pursuit of the best evolution and art you can create. Without risk, there is no innovation.”

Speaking more specifically about the whole inspiration behind Hello Heaven, Hello, YUNGBLUD says that, “Rock music is in my DNA. It’s the first genre I was ever exposed to; I grew up in a guitar shop with my dad and my grandfather. Rock music helped me find an identity as a human being.

“Hello Heaven, Hello is a journey of self-reclamation – a goodbye to the past and how you may have known or perceived me before, and a ‘hello’ to the future and where I’m going. It’s an adventure that is sonically more ambitious than ever before – a journey that is meant to be played in its entirety, never holding back or allowing its imagination to be filtered.”

Watch the video for Hello Heaven, Hello now:

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