Last month (July 16) Yungblud released his latest single “Strawberry Lipstick” and thereby ushered into a new era. Now, the 23-year-old revealed how the song was inspired by American pop-punk sensations Green Day and that the chorus was written when the Doncaster-based rockstar was just 15.

Speaking to MTV, Dominic Harrison, as his real name is, recalled how he went to a Green Day gig at the age of 13 and how he got so inspired by it that two years later, he wrote some lyrics of his own. He wrote the chorus to “Strawberry Lipstick” together with The Strypes’ guitarist Josh McClorey.

“I was just like, ‘I’m gonna make a song and a video that I’ve always wanted to make’”, Yungblud said. “That was the 13-year-old Dom, looking at Billie Joe Armstrong play ‘Bullet In A Bible’ at Milton Keynes.” And 13-year-old-Dom was so inspired by Billie Joe Armstrong that he“want my hair spiked, I wanna look like something out of DragonForce, I wanna put a Union Jack on, and I just wanna rock’n’roll.”

Remembering how Yungblud and McClorey started writing on “Strawberry Lipstick” at the young age of 15, Dom said: “That chorus was written when we were so young. We stayed up all night on a songwriting retreat and were keeping all the old boys up. They were knocking on the door like, ‘Go to sleep!’. We were just screaming [the chorus] at them.”

Back in July, Yungblud took to his social media platforms to tease the new single to his fans, without actually revealing what all the strawberries that he posted were about, which drove his fans crazy. Luckily for them, he announced the single a day later. He described the track as “just a song about liberation and energy”, with a clear message: “I just want to send all of my love and energy to everyone. I want people to put it on if they are feeling down.”