{"id":800212,"date":"2019-10-09T09:30:54","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T15:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=896880"},"modified":"2019-10-09T09:30:54","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T15:30:54","slug":"yungblud-taps-imagine-dragons-dan-reynolds-for-original-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/yungblud-taps-imagine-dragons-dan-reynolds-for-original-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Yungblud Taps Imagine Dragons\u2019 Dan Reynolds for \u2018Original Me\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/yungblud-dan-reynolds.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Yungblud dubs himself \u201cthe original loser\u201d on his booming new song \u201cOriginal Me,\u201d a collaboration with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/imagine-dragons\/\" id=\"auto-tag_imagine-dragons\" data-tag=\"imagine-dragons\">Imagine Dragons<\/a>\u2019 Dan Reynolds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI\u2019m so sick of me, wake up and hate to breathe,\u201d the British singer belts over blaring synths and drums. \u201cAnd I pride myself in that \u2014 so dramatic, I\u2019ll admit.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Reynolds appears at various points throughout the track, throwing in a few lines on the first verse and adding some raw screams on the choruses. Late in the track, Yungblud switches gears for a rapped verse filled with trendy triplet rhythms, and the bridge section incorporates some softly strummed acoustic guitar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cOriginal Me,\u201d which the duo co-wrote, appears on Yungblud\u2019s upcoming EP <em>The Underrated Youth<\/em>, out October 18th. Three days later, they\u2019ll perform the song live on <em>The Late Show With Stephen Colbert<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThis song is about accepting the parts of yourself that you hate and realizing your biggest superpower is to be originally, authentically yourself,\u201d Yungblud said in a statement.&nbsp;\u201cWorking with Dan Reynolds was such a dream come true as he is a huge inspiration for me. The song literally came out of the studio within a day. The mutual raw energy between us made this song what it is.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Yungblud \u2014 who released his debut LP, <em>21st Century Liability<\/em>, in 2018 \u2014 is currently on a North American tour that continues Saturday, October 12th in Philadelphia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/yungblud-imagine-dragons-dan-reynolds-new-song-original-me-896880\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yungblud dubs himself \u201cthe original loser\u201d on his booming new song \u201cOriginal Me,\u201d a collaboration with Imagine Dragons\u2019 Dan Reynolds. \u201cI\u2019m so sick of me, wake up and hate to breathe,\u201d the British singer belts over blaring synths and drums. \u201cAnd I pride myself in that \u2014 so dramatic, I\u2019ll admit.\u201d Reynolds appears at various [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-800212","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-24 09:30:04","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}