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• Pink Floyd famously asked, "Hello? Is there anybody in there?" on their classic song "Comfortably Numb." Yungblud takes a similar approach in this song, asking, "Hello, are you out there?" along with a series of other questions ("Are you patient? Are you blind?") as he seeks connection and looks for meaning.
  
  Yungblud often looks at the big picture in his music and finds a reason to be excited about life. He does so on this musical journey when he repeats, "Tell me if you wanna feel alive."
• "Hello Heaven, Hello" is the first track on Yungblud's fourth album, Idols. He made waves in his native UK with his debut album, 21st Century Liability, in 2018, and released the triumphant Weird! in 2020, which went to #1 in the UK. The album Yungblud followed in 2022 and also went to #1, but he later came to believe it was derivative of his earlier work and that he let "too many opinions in." With Idols he tried to be his usual transgressive self. "Hello Heaven, Hello" goes in a very bold direction, with a structure based on classical music, but with his blend of searing vocals and guitars.
• The song runs 9:06, which finds Yungblud bucking the trend of short, meme-friendly songs that get right to the hook. Another track on the album, "Ghosts," also takes its sweet time, running 6:26.
• Yungblud got some help from the London Philharmonic Orchestra string section on this track and seven others on the Idols album. The strings added a grandiose element he was looking for.
• The music video was directed by Charlie Sarsfield, who also helmed "Dance All Over Me" by George Ezra and "You Only Love Me" by Rita Ora. It's a grand production, starting with Yungblud on a snowy mountain, shirtless with a horse. He ends up growing wings and flying away.
  
  Yungblud explained the video to Rolling Stone: "it goes through this journey of self-discovery and one step into heaven and a reclamation - but first you have to go through all this bulls--t... and I arrive at the end of the mountain. I'm not questioning s--t. It's very religious, but in discovery and a search for meaning."
• Yungblud wrote this song with his longtime producer Matt Schwartz and with Adam Warrington, who played guitar on the track, and Bob Bradley, who played bass.