Credit: Florence Pugh / Tom Pallant

Florence Pugh stars in new Yungblud music video, ‘Zombie’

Fri 30 May 2025 20:56, UK

Yungblud has released a music video to accompany his latest single, ‘Zombie’, starring recent Marvel hit-maker Florence Pugh.

Pugh stars as a doctor, exhausted but still managing to tentatively take care of clients with a smile despite her own suffering. Throughout the ballad, clips of Yungblud performing in a hospital room are interspliced with emotional moments of Pugh staring into the distance.

Reflecting on the song, Yungblud wrote in a statement, “The song was written initially about my grandmother going through serious injury and trauma, leading her to become a different person to who she was before.”

However, the singer admitted that it became much more than that. “It’s about the feeling of deterioration and ugliness; shutting out the world and the people we love out of the fear of becoming a burden or an embarrassment,” he added. “We all want someone or something to comfort us no matter how we are right now or who we become in the future. But it’s fucking scary.”

Their collaboration on the video was hinted at in a previous comment made by Yungblud, who heralded Pugh “one of the most exciting British artists in a long time.” The musician is glad to have a fellow British performer in the video, as he tells Rolling Stone that, “the song is so deep, so emotional, but so fundamentally British.”

His praise for Pugh, who recently performed a tear-jerking role in the romance movie We Live in Time alongside co-star Andrew Garfield, continued. He gushed, “I was like mind blown watching her on set. And she’s just a legend. You can tell, man. She’s just sat in a pub on a Sunday with a pint of Guinness, just talking shit.”

The single is another from his forthcoming album, Idols, which will be released on June 20th. It is the third single, following ‘Lovesick Lullaby’, and the seven-minute track ‘Hello Heaven, Hello’.

Yungblud will tour the album across North America and Europe. He will only play one UK date in 2025, at his own festival, Bludfest, on June 24th.