“I wanted to make a film that truly documents where we are right now, at this moment, around the release of my most ambitious album to date,” the musician shared in a statement
When Yungblud looks back on this period of his life and career, he wants the memory to be crystal clear. Accordingly, he captured the creation of his latest studio album Idols in Berlin for the legacy-grappling documentary Yungblud: Are You Ready, Boy? The Paul Dugdale-directed film will be released in theaters on Aug. 20 and 24.
“I wanted to make a film that truly documents where we are right now, at this moment, around the release of my most ambitious album to date,” Yungblud shared in a statement. “Berlin has always radiated complete, unfiltered truth. Every time I’ve visited Hansa Studios, it’s just fucking iconic. You can feel the history in Hansa; it’s in the silence between takes, the ceiling looming over you. You’re standing in the shadows of all these legends and asking yourself ‘Who the fuck am I? And what am I gonna leave behind?’”
Are You Ready, Boy? combines behind-the-scenes footage with 12 live performances from Idols, which arrived in June, to fill its two-hour runtime. The film, produced by B.R.A.T Productions in association with Aldgate Pictures, will screen in 30 countries internationally through Trafalgar Releasing. The musician’s home base, the U.K., will screen the release in 150 theaters. Ticket sales begin on July 17 via the official Yungblud website.
“When we made this film, it was in that special twilight zone between the record being finished and people hearing it for the first time,” Dugdale shared in a statement. “I always think of that moment before a release as such a unique time for an artist, and it’s an extraordinary period to document because we can enter into it without any external noise or pre-conception. It allowed us to make something unaffected by the outside world, and there’s a really pleasing purity about that. We got to live in a moment with Dom, free of any external opinio,n and start a relationship from a totally blank canvas.”
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For Yungblud, Idols was a lifeline. “This album was almost like my last chance,” he recently told Rolling Stone. “If I hadn’t been sure of what I was making, I don’t think there would’ve been a way back for me. I made a fucking incredible album when I was 19 — 21st Century Liability. I got so much bigger than I ever expected to get. And then the mainstream finds you and you become insecure about things you didn’t know existed.”
