Justin Hawkins has in contrast Yungblud’s Ozzy Osbourne tribute to “what a male stripper would do”.
The Darkness star Justin Hawkins has blasted Yungblud over his Ozzy Osbourne tribute
The Darkness frontman has joined his brother Dan Hawkins in blasted the MTV Video Music Awards tribute to the late Black Sabbath icon over the weekend, which noticed Yungblud share the stage with Excessive’s Nuno Bettencourt and Areosmith’s Steven Tyler and Joe Perry.
Talking on his Justin Hawkins Rides Once more podcast, he stated: “It’s such as you’ve watched a film about rock and steel, it’s like what a male stripper would do.
“It doesn’t ring genuine… It’s rock n’ roll, however not as we all know it.
“It type of has this Disney veneer excessive of it, prefer it’s rock n’ roll seen by way of an Instagram filter of some type.”
The I Imagine In A Factor Known as Love rocker accused the 28-year-old musician of “positioning himself as a pure inheritor to the Ozzy legacy” with out having a connection to “the actually essential stuff”.
He argued: “I suppose one of many issues that irks musicians of a sure age is to look at Ozzy invent heavy steel, then flip into this family title with the tv collection and his many years of being good, and you then type of suppose ‘What the f*** does all these many years of getting this unimaginable legacy bought to do with Yungblud?’ ”
Justin additionally drew unfavourable comparisons to 2003 Jack Black film Faculty of Rock.
He added: “All of this posturing is Jim Morrison meets the bloke from Stone Temple Pilots meets all people else who’s ever owned a pair of leather-based trousers.
“It’s 101 Faculty of Rock stuff, you recognize? It’s the newest in an extended line of – I’m sorry to say it – poseurs…
“For seven minutes, the world is rock and that is what we’ve given them.”
Yungblud opened the tribute by singing Loopy Practice and Modifications with Nuno on guitar, and so they have been then joined by the Aerosmith duo for Mama, I am Coming Dwelling.
After the efficiency, the quartet embraced and Yungblud shouted: “Ozzy perpetually man!”
Dan fumed on Instagram: “One other nail within the coffin of rock n roll. Cynical, nauseating and extra importantly; s***.”
Seemingly referring to Yungblud, he added: “Makes me sick how individuals bounce on this s*** to additional their very own careers.”
He additionally captioned a clip from Mama, I am Coming Dwelling: “What a bunch of b***ends.”