“Youth” is a wonderful song by the talented singer/songwriter, Alex Di Leo. There is a great level of songwriting that shines up through this record. Alex’s voice is a piece of art, it’s charming and pure and his vocal performance is catchy and professional which definitely shows how talented he is. The acoustic guitar is wonderful and the melodies of this record are unique. We have enjoyed listening to this song until the last second and we are definitely hooked.
WHAT THE ARTIST SAYS ABOUT THIS SONG:
“Youth is a song a about growing up. With a mind torn between being Young & Reckless or a hopeless romantic, sometimes the best way to keep your youth is by living in the moment.”
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
For singer/songwriter Alex Di Leo, 2019 was a nonstop whirlwind that radically altered his perspective as an artist. After moving to Nashville from his Southern Florida hometown, the 23-year-old musician found himself thrown into an endless cycle of eye-opening experiences and occasional bad choices, relationship struggles and wild new adventures (including one massively life-changing skydiving trip). While touring around the country with artists like Max Frost and Cody Lovaas, Di Leo created a new batch of music that channels all that chaos and self-discovery into beautifully detailed yet hard-hitting pop songs, ultimately offering up his most powerful work to date.
Made with producers/songwriters like Zack Djurich (Kanye West, Ty Dolla $ign, Thirty Seconds To Mars), Di Leo’s latest output echoes a certain tension within his emotional life, a conflict he refers to as “being torn between young and reckless and a hopeless romantic.” To that end, his new music adds a moody alternative flavor to the laid-back coastal-pop sound he’s long embraced—all while introducing an element of heart-on-sleeve storytelling influenced by his recent exposure to country music in Nashville. In building that dynamic, Di Leo brought a new level of spontaneity to his songwriting and performance, instilling each track with the same warm and electrifying energy he’s shown in sharing stages with such artists as Barns Courtney and X Ambassadors.
On the spellbinding single “Youth,” Di Leo reveals his newly heightened ability to capture complex feelings in perfectly crafted pop music. With its mesmerizing textures and heart-melting melodies, the achingly confessional track was largely inspired by a skydiving trip Di Leo took with Lovaas in June. “I’ve definitely had a different mentality since then,” says Di Leo. “I was so scared to jump, but it ended up sparking this sense of adventure in me, and I really took that to the limit.” Laced with dreamy electric-guitar riffs and lower vocal tones than Di Leo’s ever attempted before, “Youth” candidly examines how that shift in mindset impacted his relationship. “It was a really confusing and darker time in my relationship and all those feelings just came out in the moment as I was writing ‘Youth,’” he says.
