“Strawberry Lipstick” is the first single from Dominic Harrison aka Yungblud’s upcoming album. In an interview with MTV, the rock star revealed that the song has been brewing since he was just fifteen years old.
He recalled seeing Green Day at a show back when he was an early teen and wanting to write a song just like it.
“I was just like, ‘I’m gonna make a song and a video that I’ve always wanted to make’,” he recalled. “That was the 13-year-old Dom, looking at Billie Joe Armstrong play ‘Bullet In A Bible’ at Milton Keynes. I was like, ‘I want my hair spiked, I wanna look like something out of DragonForce, I wanna put a Union Jack on, and I just wanna rock’n’roll.”
“Me and Josh [McClorey] had started something really young; we started that at like 15,” he continued. “That chorus was written when we were so young. We stayed up all night on a songwriting retreat and were keeping all the old boys up. They were knocking on the door like, ‘Go to sleep!’. We were just screaming [the chorus] at them.”
You can listen to the Green Day-inspired single and watch the music video below.
