The Underrated Youth

The Underrated Youth is a 2019 EP by English artist Yungblud, released on October 18, 2019 via Locomotion/Geffen as the follow‑up project to his debut album 21st Century Liability. Across six songs and about 18 minutes, it refines and broadens the style he introduced on the debut—still noisy, genre‑blending, and confrontational, but with a stronger melodic focus and more overtly anthemic, politically tinged writing. The EP includes the singles “parents,” “hope for the underrated youth,” and “original me,” as well as “braindead!,” “casual sabotage,” and “waiting on the weekend.”

Thematically, The Underrated Youth doubles down on Yungblud’s role as a self‑appointed spokesperson for misfit, marginalized young people, treating “underrated” as both an emotional state and a political condition. The title track, launched with politically charged projections on the Houses of Parliament, frames youth as a generation written off by those in power yet still capable of solidarity and resistance. “parents” works as a defiant, humorous defence of “unheard voices in a losing battle against authority,” calling out bigotry at home and insisting on the right to self‑definition, while “original me” (a collaboration with Dan Reynolds of Imagine Dragons, on some editions) celebrates imperfection and self‑loathing as part of being real rather than manufactured.