Lowlife

"**Lowlife**", released 7th June 2023, is the first lead artist single by YUNGBLUD after the self-titled third studio album's release. It is unknown whether this is a non-album single, or due on the next studio album. It is his thirty-seventh (37th) single. It was released under Locomotion, Interscope Records, Geffen Records, for streaming and digital download.

## Background

On 30th May 2023, YUNGBLUD tweeted *"does history repeat itself? never. it’s about to begin."*, hinting at the start of a new era. An hour later he tweeted *"btw check your mail box. tonight and tomorrow. (literally)"*. The next day he tweeted out a letter that talked about wanting to make sure that his music scares people. The next day, he told fans in London, Los Angeles, and Germany to go to specific locations in their respective locations. For London, it was Braithwate Street between the hours of 9am - 6pm, Los Angeles was northside of Melrose Avenue between the hours of 9am - 7pm, while German fans took on Nürburgring Grand Prix Strecke; 11am til late. He tweeted two images, one of the locations and times and the other of him sitting on car, with the words "LOWLIFE" spray painted on the car. On 3rd June 2023, he thanked fans in London and Los Angeles for going to the locations specified, while he partied to the song with fans in Germany at their location. Fans found a car, and were allowed to listen to the song for the first time.

On 4th June 2023, he tweeted out a trailer for the music video to the song. The trailer ivolved him unzipping a bag with the words "GAME OVER" on it, taking out a music player with the song in it and walking while th emusic played in his headphones. A fire starts inside of the bag but does not spread futher as YUNGBLUD walks around. He takes his left earphone out looks behind him and puts it back in. The ending displays a black background with the word "LOWLIFE", the words disappears and a high pitched voice shouts "YUNGBLUD!". On 5th June 2023, he announced that the song was coming out on Wednesday (7 June 2023).

## Lyrics

*Transcribed through hearing*

I'm not gonna go out today

I wanna sit right here and wish the world away,

'Cause I'm a lowlife, lowlife

I don't care if the people stare,

I'm gonna stay right here in my underwear

'Cause I'm a lowlife, lowlife

You know I get embarrassed most of the days

When I'm walking round Camden with a smirk on my face

Put my hand in my pocket to find some change

Buy a bottle of gin to get the memories erased

'Cause you know what, life is extremely divisive

It's a fraudulent razor for you to trim your sides with

Young, Dumb, livin' off mum

That's a line from my friend that I thought I should bum

Not all the words are my own, but I don't want you to judge

I thought inspiration was all about fun

Life's been eating me up, it's poisoned my cup

And if I leave the house I'll get hit by a truck

I'm not gonna go out today

I wanna sit right here and wish the world away

'Cause I'm a lowlife, lowlife

I don't care if the people stare

I'm gonna stay right here in my underwear

'Cause I'm a lowlife, lowlife

In the world of normal people I'm a monkey

It's painted on their faces that they think I’m a junkie

In the way that I dress, the people I bed

The way I express the things in my head

I don't go to the bar

I sit in the dark

I smoke a cigar

I play the guitar

I stay in my house

I put on my sounds

The neighbours tell me to turn it down so

I'm not gonna go out today

I wanna sit right here and wish the world away,

'Cause I'm a lowlife, lowlife

I don't care if the people stare,

I'm gonna stay right here in my underwear

'Cause I'm a lowlife, lowlife

La la la la la (La la la la la)

La la la la la (La la la la la)

La la la la la (La la la la la)

Lowlife

La la la la la (La la la la la)

La la la la la (La la la la la)

La la la la la (La la la la la)

Lowlife

People come, people go

People high, people low

People stay, people change

People lie, people don’t

I don’t fulfill my potential, cause everyone around me is so self-referential (wanker)

Hypocritical maybe, a petulant baby

(Wah wah wah, shut up) Shut up you’re driving me a crazy

Call me a low life? That shit don’t phase me

I’m alright on my own, I don’t need you to save me

I'm not gonna go out today

I wanna sit right here and wish the world away,

'Cause I'm a lowlife, lowlife

I don't care if the people stare,

I'm gonna stay right here in my underwear

'Cause I'm a lowlife, lowlife

La la la la la (La la la la la)

La la la la la (La la la la la)

La la la la la (La la la la la)

Lowlife

La la la la la (La la la la la)

La la la la la (La la la la la)

La la la la la (La la la la la)

Lowlife

YUNGBLUD!

## Trivia

* Dominic Harrison and Shea McChrystal directed the official lyric video
* When the lyric video was released, YUNGBLUD tweeted that he sketched everything in it.
* The lyric *"Young, Dumb, living off mum / That’s a line from a friend I thought I should bum"* may reference: *Young, Dumb and Living Off Mum*, a British entertainment reality series which aired on BBC Three. It aired from 19 July 2009 to 18 September 2011. This could also just be a coincidence.
* The bridge may be a direct response, especially with the lyric *"self-referential"*, to Matty Healy mocking YUNGBLUD on Instagram stories. Healy has used the lyric *"self-referential"* in The 1975 song *"Sincerity Is Scary"*: *"You lack substance when you say something like "oh what a shame" / It's just a self-referential way that stops you having to be human"*, the word self-referential also quite literally means "making reference to itself, its author or creator, or their other work.". This may also give a time-frame to when the song was written or this was added in as a response to both Healy and others who mock him.

## Credits

*Credits obtained from TIDAL*

* Paul Meany — producer, composer, lyricist, background vocalist, keyboards, programming
* Jake Torrey — producer, composer, lyricist, background vocalist, bass, guitar, piano
* Dominic Harrison — producer, composer, lyricist, percussion, vocals
* Adam Hawkins — engineer
* Jack Miele — engineer
* Joe LaPorta — engineer

## Buy/Stream

* YouTube
* Spotify
* Apple Music
* Tidal
* SoundCloud

## References

1. ↑ NME — "Yungblud returns to his roots and launches new era with ‘LowLife’". Published 7 June 2023. Written by Anagricel Duran. Retrieved 7 June 2023. Archived on 7 June 2023
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 YUNGBLUD (@yungblud) on Twitter — "“lowlife”. out wednesday. presave. 🖤 https://YUNGBLUD.lnk.to/Presave" Posted 5 June 2023. Retrieved 7 June 2023. Archived on 7 June 2023
3. ↑ YUNGBLUD (@yungblud) on Twitter — "does history repeat itself? never. it’s about to begin." Posted 30 May 2023. Retrieved 7 June 2023. Archived on 7 June 2023
4. ↑ YUNGBLUD (@yungblud) on Twitter — "btw check your mail box. tonight and tomorrow. (literally)" Posted 30 May 2023. Retrieved 7 June 2023. Archived on 7 June 2023
5. ↑ YUNGBLUD (@yungblud) on Twitter — "..." Posted 31 May 2023. Retrieved 7 June 2023. Archived on 7 June 2023
6. ↑ YUNGBLUD (@yungblud) on Twitter — "I HAVE A SURPRISE FOR YOU. TOMORROW. DITCH ALL YOUR PLANS N GO TO THESE LOCATIONS. HEAR IT FIRST. 🖤" Posted 1 June 2023. Retrieved 7 June 2023. Archived on 7 June 2023
7. ↑ NME — "Yungblud teases new single ‘Lowlife’ at global fan events". Published 3 June 2023. Written by Will Richards. Retrieved 7 June 2023. Archived on 7 June 2023
8. ↑ YUNGBLUD (@yungblud) on Twitter — "lowlife is coming … 🖤🖤🖤 #lowlife" Posted 4 June 2023. Retrieved 7 June 2023. Archived on 7 June 2023
9. ↑ YUNGBLUD (@yungblud) on Twitter — "LOWLIFE IS OUT NOW!!! everythin in this lyric video was sketched by me! which tattoo you claiming?" Posted 7 June 2023. Retrieved 7 June 2023. Archived on 7 June 2023
10. ↑ NME — "The 1975’s Matty Healy and Yungblud appear to come to blows online". Published 20 February 2023. Written by Will Richards. Retrieved 7 June 2023. Archived on 22 February 2023
11. ↑ TIDAL — "Credits / Lowlife / YUNGBLUD — TIDAL". Published 7 June 2023. Retrieved 7 June 2023.