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Young vocalist hits back at brothers Dan and Justin Hawkins, from The Darkness, for trashing their tribute to the Prince of Darkness at the MTV Video Music Awards (VMA)

Criticized by brothers Dan and Justin Hawkinsfrom The Darknessfor his tribute to Ozzy Osbourne node MTV Video Music Awards (VMA), the young vocalist Yungblud decided to fight back.

In a podcast interview The Magnificent Othersfrom Billy Corgan (via Guitar World), he used two arguments to counter the criticism. First, he said that he was actually singing, unlike other artists who did lip sync:

“Amid all that euphoria and glamour, we were probably one of the only artists singing live there.”

He completed:

“Just by playing live and being the most viewed video on the internet the next day, you can feel that rock is all about truth, passion and humanity. Pop music is the cartoon version of life; rock is about being in the mud.”

Furthermore, Yungblud also cited the generation gap between him and the Hawkins brothers, who broke out with the The Darkness in the early 2000s with the music “I Believe in a Thing Called Love”. He, who is 28 years old, argued:

“Sometimes people don’t believe me, and I accept that challenge. It was really interesting when I talked to Ozzy about it. He said you can’t take that on. It’s hard to understand someone who’s trying to rock in a new way because, of course, I’m referring to the past; we all were.

The young artist added:

“Yungblud, as a name, almost has a negative connotation, like, ‘Oh, I can’t like that, it’s a kid thing.’ They’re always segregating. But what was beautiful about Back to the Beginning was that it was the first time that an older generation of rock fans and I shared something in common, which was our mutual adoration for our genre.”

Criticism of Yungblud

At the MTV Video Music Awards (VMA), Yungblud performed with Nuno Bettencourt (Extreme) and Steve Tyler and Joe Perryboth from Aerosmith. The first two performed “Crazy Train” and “Changes” and then “Mama I’m Coming Home” alongside Tyler and Perry.

Yungblud was blasted by Dan Hawkins, who wrote the following social media comment:

“Look at a bunch of assholes. Another nail in the coffin of rock ‘n’ roll. Cynical, nauseating and, most importantly, shit. It sickens me to see how people take advantage of this shit to boost their careers. What a bunch of idiots.”

His brother, vocalist Justin Hawkins, also made harsh criticisms:

“One of the things that irritates musicians of a certain age is seeing Ozzy invent heavy metal, then become a household name with the television series (The Osbournes) and his decades of brilliance… then you think: ‘what the hell do all these decades of incredible legacy have to do with Yungblud?’. It’s the fact that Yungblud seems to have positioned himself as a natural heir to Ozzy’s legacy, without having anything to do with the really important stuff.”

Justin even paid a series of compliments to Nuno Bettencourt. In the midst of this, however, he again criticized the singer:

“This whole stance is a mixture of Jim Morrison with the guy Stone Temple Pilots (Scott Weiland) with everyone who has ever owned a pair of leather pants. It’s a School of Rock student thing, you know? It’s the latest in a long line of – I’m sorry to say – impostors. For seven minutes, the world is looking at rock and that’s what we gave them. It’s as if you’ve just watched a movie about rock and metal. That’s what a stripper would do. It doesn’t sound authentic. It’s rock’n’roll, but not as we know it.”

Finally, the frontman of The Darkness went so far as to say that Yungblud represents a kind of “version Disney” from the rock and roll myth.

“It has a sort of Disney veneer over it, like it’s rock’n’roll seen through some kind of Instagram filter. That’s what makes it irritating to people who have made posts dismissive of it. It would be like David Hasselhoffwho is one of the giants, and I’m not insulting, but he’s like a television personality doing rock’n’roll.”

Source: Rollingstone

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