Huddy on the pop-punk revival and how his girlfriend became his muse

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Huddy caught up with NME backstage at Lollapalooza to chat about the pop-punk revival, working with Travis Barker and his transition from social media personality to musician.The ‘All The Things I Hate About You’ singer – real name Chase Hudson – spoke to us following his performance on the BMI stage on the final day of the annual Chicagoan music bash.His debut performance at Lollapalooza saw Huddy draw in one of the biggest crowds of the weekend. “I couldn’t have asked for anything more,” he told NME. “I really wanted to amp it up, because it was my first performance back in two years.“The last set that I played was in San Jose at Poptopia, and this was just such a sick welcome back set in Chicago.

I haven’t played here before, so it was really awesome to see everyone’s faces in the Midwest.”A post shared by Chase Hudson (@huddy) Back in May, the 22-year-old musician released his ‘Love Bites’ EP, a collection of four pop-punk songs inspired by girlfriend Chiara Huvland.“When me and her first met, I saw something in her that was almost like a partner and a muse,” he said. “She is just such an inspiration, both with my music and within my life.

She’s helped me do so much and realise so much about myself. I’m doing all these things that I wasn’t doing before I met her so I have no one to thank but her.”Explaining what it was like to work with producer Omega (Fall Out Boy, Kesha, aespa, Lil Uzi Vert), Huddy said he “really showed me what taking your time and being almost nitpicky about every part of a song does for you and how that helps your outcome in the long run”.“We re-tracked ‘Love Bites’ I think three times just to make sure everything was perfect,” he continued. “One little thing would be like ‘Meh’, and then we.