Super Moon

Album: Idols (2025)
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  • Yungblud closes his fourth album, Idols, with "Super Moon," a piano-based tune that wraps up the themes of the album: idolatry, a fall from grace, and redemption. It's a very personal song, but he didn't write it: his long-time producer Matt Schwartz wrote it but held the song for five years, waiting for the right moment.

    That moment came when Yungblud felt some backlash over his previous album, Yungblud, when it was released in 2022. Schwartz anticipated that moment when he wrote the song, which reminds Yungblud that he's his own "self fulfilling prophecy" with a special talent.

    "He saw me starting to take off, and he knew," Yungblud told Rolling Stone. "It's probably been the most understanding thing about myself I've ever read, and I didn't even write it. It made me f--king cry my eyes out because no one has ever understood me more in my entire life."
  • A supermoon occurs when the moon is at its closest point to Earth during a full moon, appearing larger and brighter than usual. Of course, it's a temporary state, and soon the moon will recede into darkness. You can see how this is a metaphor not just for Yungblud but for just about anyone who rises to fame. The good news: the moon will inevitably come back around.
  • The "don't be sad" refrain reflects Yungblud's mantra of defiant happiness, which he spelled out in his 2022 track "Don't Feel Like Feeling Sad Today." His mental state is always in flux, and this is one way he can help control it.

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