Justin Hawkins of Darkness on Yungblud: “Poser”. And it is controversy

Following the performance of Yungblud at MTV Video Music Awards 2025where he paid tribute to Ozzy Osbourne together with Steven Tyler and Joe Perry With a medley of the greatest successes of the late Black Sabbath frontman, they arrived The criticisms of Justin and Dan Hawkins of Darkness.

“Another nail in the Rock n roll coffin,” wrote Dan in a shared post on his Instagram profile in the aftermath of the VMas: “Kinematic, nauseating and, more importantly: a crap.” Subsequently, Justin commented on the words of his brother saying: “I believe that what annoys the musicians of a certain age is the fact that Yungblud seems to have positioned himself as a natural heir of Ozzy, without having anything to do with really important things. All this attracts seems so much Jim Morrison who meets the type of Stone Temple Pilots who meets all the others who have ever owned a pair of leather pants.” He continued. “It’s the last of a long series of – I’m sorry to say – Poser. For seven minutes, the world is looking at rock and this is what we have given him ”.

Now, after his comments have divided the fans, The singer intervened on his YouTube channel“Justin Hawkins Rides Again”, to explain his position e say to the public that he has the right to have his opinion. Hawkins’ intervention began with the reading of a series of comments against him, including that of a user who wrote “let me understand. Ozzy takes sympathy for Yungblud. Yungblud participates in the taxes for Ozzy and attracts attention. Now everyone wants to criticize him for this? This world is really messed up, people like anything but hate. The voice of the band of “The Believe in a Thing Called Love”, then replied: “I don’t think I criticized the spirit of Yungblud. I admire it as much as anyone else. What I was saying is that it looks like a television showman who makes rock. I find it a little embarrassing. During my career, I myself did embarrassing things or cringe, and everyone was ready to criticize me hard. It must be said. We cannot live in this culture where criticism is not allowed. When I did embarrassing things, people pointed it out to me, and I appreciated and appreciate this type of guide and criticism. This is how you become better artists. ”

Justin Hawkins, who with the Darkness settled the eighth studio album last March, “Dreams on toast” (here our review), then continued responding to other comments against him and added: “I too am entitled to say mine. Someone like Yungblud should be quite resilient to bear some criticismbecause he has a huge sequel and his latest albums really had, really successful. It doesn’t need my support. Although I said positive things about his first works because I think that culturally, it can be a rather important individual. I just don’t think I have yet written really good songs – And this is my opinion ”.

In the meantime, after Live collaboration at the MTV VMas 2025, Yungblud has united forces again with Steven Tyler and Joe Perry for the first single in 13 years of the aerosmiths. The song, entitled “My Only Angel“(Here our listening), was released yesterday – September 19 – to anticipate The collaborative EP “One More Time” coming on November 21st.