In a world that tried to tame him, one voice told him to stay wild.

Before he became YUNGBLUD — the unapologetic, genre-defying artist who gave a generation permission to feel — he was just Dom Harrison, a kid from Doncaster with a head full of noise and a heart that didn’t quite fit in. And through every rejection, every sneer, every record label executive telling him to “tone it down,” there was one man who refused to let him lose himself: his father.

“Don’t you dare change,” his dad once told him, looking him square in the eye. “The world doesn’t need another copy — it needs you.”

Those words hit like an electric current. From that moment, YUNGBLUD wasn’t just making music; he was building a movement. Every scream, every riff, every lyric soaked in rebellion traces back to that moment of defiance — to a son who chose honesty over conformity.

It’s why songs like “Parents” and “I Think I’m OKAY” pulse with a raw, messy humanity that feels like protest and prayer all at once. They’re not just tracks — they’re war cries for the misfits, the misunderstood, the ones told they’re “too much.”

Years later, with millions of fans chanting his words back to him in arenas around the world, YUNGBLUD still hears his father’s voice before every show. “Don’t you dare change.”

And he hasn’t. He’s loud. He’s emotional. He’s real.
Because rebellion, for YUNGBLUD, isn’t about breaking rules — it’s about never breaking yourself.