Songfacts®:

• Change was hard for Yungblud. Just when he got his head on straight and became one of the biggest young stars in the UK, he found himself facing that familiar self-doubt. This song finds him celebrating the wins and embracing the uncertain, knowing the other side of that coin is his enemy: complacency.
  
  "I learned through this song that there is beauty in the uncomfortable and that there's something to learn more than ever in the uncomfortable," he told Rolling Stone. "The more uncomfortable you can be, the harder you feel anything."
• The song is part of Yungblud's fourth album, Idols, which follows a thread of rising to fame only to be humbled by criticism. This song fits the theme as it finds Yungblud coping with negative comments about his previous album, the self-titled Yungblud in 2022. Truth is, the guy is being really hard on himself in the way a performer and earn a standing ovation but still ruminate on the one guy who stayed seated. Both Yungblud and Idols were #1 albums in his native UK.
• Yungblud had a catharsis when he wrote this song. "I remember just crying my f--king eyes out to my producer Mati Schwartz," he told Rolling Stone. "We were having a conversation about how every point in my life, when I feel happy about how I feel in my head, everything f--king changes again. Why does someone die? Why do I have to leave my house? Why do I fall out of love?"
  
  As usual, Schwartz talked him down and helped him make sense of it. Those two have been a team since Yungblud's 2018 debut album, 21st Century Liability.
• The songwriting credits on this one go to Yungblud, his producer Mati Schwartz, and two guys in his band: Bob Bradley and Adam Warrington.
• This isn't the first very emotional song about change that has that word in the title. The 1972 Black Sabbath song "Changes" is a classic in the UK, where it was a #1 hit in a duet by Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne and his daughter Kelly in 2003. Yungblud is a huge Ozzy fan and they have a tight bond. At Black Sabbath's 2025 Back To The Beginning farewell concert, Yungblud sang it in tribute.