• French Translation

In an April 2019 interview at Paaspop Festival, YUNGBLUD was asked what his favourite fan moment was, he answered:

I remember on Vans Warped Tour, it was kinda crazy, I remember this one girl came up to me and she said that she had a sex change, she was formerly a boy and that my music helped her get through that and feel that her identity—it was okay to be herself. And that was fucking crazy for me, and I can tell you that there’s a song on the new album, about her, and how inspiring it was to kind of help someone like that, it’s fucking crazy that our community helped someone feel like they could be themselves and take a huge step and achieve their goal of wanting to be themself.

The song title and inspiration was revealed in a December 2019 interview interview with Metro:

There’s a song called ‘Mars’ which is important to me, ’cause I had a trans man come up to me and say my track ‘Kill Somebody’ last year helped his parents with the community he wanted to be in. And [they] allowed him to go from being a girl – they sat with him through his transition to be a boy. I thought that was fucking crazy. He told me about his story, about how nobody understood him, and it clicked with me because it reminded me of ‘Life On Mars?’ by David Bowie –  so I’m paying homage to that.

He also told Apple Music:

This was the hardest song on this album—it took a year for me to get it right. It’s about a young trans girl I met in Maryland. She told me that her parents couldn’t fathom the idea of her being trans. They thought it was just some sort of phase. All she wanted to do was get her parents to a YUNGBLUD show, because maybe they’d see other people like her. So she saved up and came with her parents. They saw the passion, the energy, the noise, and the sheer reluctance to be anything other than who [my fans] are, and they accepted her as their baby girl. I can’t find her, and I don’t know if I want to. My dream is to go to Maryland one day and play some arena. I’ll know it’s about her, she’ll know it’s about her, but no one else does. And that’s just the most magic thing in the world.

YUNGBLUD told a fan on Twitter that this song is the one that took the longest to write on the album:

18 months to finish had to do this beautiful story justice 🖤 🧷 🖤