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Royal Young
@royalyoung.bsky.social
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Non-binary poet + art + sound 💙🪬⚡️ they / them

https://www.youtube.com/@ROYunderground
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royalyoung.bsky.social
DOUBLE THAT BAG

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#vaporwave #animation #dreamcore #money #undergroundmusic 🩵💰🪽🎶
December 5, 2025 at 7:59 PM
royalyoung.bsky.social
Do the deserts
Miss the rain?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKPN...

#dreamcore #soundscape #everythingbutthegirl #missing #desert #vaporwave 🩵🏜️🪻🎶
December 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM
royalyoung.bsky.social
For PHOENIX Magazine I wrote about vital Indigenous spaces in the Arizona desert. From petroglyph rock drawings, to current Two Spirit Pow Wows celebrating gender expansive peoples. These Indigenous spaces hold much wisdom to respectfully learn from

www.phoenixmag.com/2025/11/21/7...
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November 21, 2025 at 8:27 PM
royalyoung.bsky.social
& it’s one more day
Up in the canyons
& it’s one more
Night in Hollywood
It’s been so long
Since I’ve seen
The ocean
I think
I should

#alongdecember #vaporwave #countingcrows #hollywood #dreamcore 🩵🏜️🌊🎶

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One More Day [Official Visualizer]
YouTube video by ROY
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November 17, 2025 at 9:15 PM
royalyoung.bsky.social
Double that
Double the
Bass
Double that
Double that
Grass
Double that
Trouble that
Pass
Double that
Double that
Bag
Gimme
Double that
Bag

#vaporwave #dreamcore #synthwave #animation #enbyart #undergroundmusic #doublethatbag 🩵🎶🕊️💰

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Double That Bag [Official Visualizer]
YouTube video by ROY
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November 11, 2025 at 8:28 PM
royalyoung.bsky.social
On a late night
Call u up
When it feels
Like life’s
So rough
Even when
I’m in my cups
You never
Treat me
Tough

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IIb...

#nightcore #dreampop #latenight #enby #triphop #lofimusic #deep 🩵🌌🎶⚡️
November 7, 2025 at 9:48 PM
royalyoung.bsky.social
Bluer than
The ocean
Bluer than
The sky
Bluer than
The notion
That were all
Gonna die

#vaporwave #ouija #lofimusic #blues #enbyart #dreamcore #nightcore #darkambient 💙🌌⚡️🎶

www.youtube.com/watch?v=acul...
Blue Without U [Official Visualizer]
YouTube video by ROY
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October 31, 2025 at 10:59 PM
royalyoung.bsky.social
Trouble ahead
Trouble behind
Go to the side
It’s alright
You can
Take your time

www.youtube.com/watch?v=teLg...

#vinyl #vaporwave #triphop #enby #undergroundmusic #trouble 🩵📻🎶💋
October 29, 2025 at 1:24 AM
royalyoung.bsky.social
Y2K
So ended
Got crooks
In the chaos
So bended
I put love
In a grave
So cemented
Now I’m back
With a
Vengeance

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAi9...

#Y2K #slushwave #vaporwave #dreampop #nonbinary #atomic 🩵🎶💥👾
October 25, 2025 at 10:57 PM
royalyoung.bsky.social
Is this how it goes
10,000 years
Of longing

#newagemusic #lofi #soundscape #undergroundmusic #dreamcore 🩵☁️🎶🌌

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uPj...
How It Goes
YouTube video by ROY
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October 22, 2025 at 10:01 PM
royalyoung.bsky.social
Won’t catch me
Slipping
They built an
Altar
So I give them
New religion

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwTp...

#nightcore #vaporwave #triphop #dreamcore #undergroundmusic #slipping #darkambient 🩵🌌🎶⚡️
October 18, 2025 at 8:43 PM
royalyoung.bsky.social
For PHOENIX Magazine I wrote about thriving queer spaces in the desert, from LGBTQIA+ indie Film Festivals, to art parties @brickroadcoffee.bsky.social & more

#writing #queerart #desertart 🩵⚧️✍️✨

www.phoenixmag.com/2025/10/16/7...
7 Queer-Friendly Spaces to Support this Phoenix Pride Month
For more than 50 years, PHOENIX magazine's experienced writers, editors, and designers have captured all sides of the Valley with award-winning and insightful writing, and groundbreaking reporting and design.
www.phoenixmag.com
October 16, 2025 at 10:22 PM
royalyoung.bsky.social
I’ve been thinking
How all the
Stars
Align***

Honored to be featured on this cosmic synthwave track by my sibling Fury Young !

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ytD...

#synthwave #vaporwave #cosmicsounds #indiemusic #siblings 🩵🌠🎶⚡️
October 15, 2025 at 10:15 PM
royalyoung.bsky.social
How am I only
Finding out
Everything ends
How am I only
Finding out
We were more
Than just friends
Getting closer now
That light round
The bend

#vaporwave #lofimusic #happyagain #futuregarage #undergroundmusic 🩵🎶🌠🪷

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GcR...
Happy Again (B Side)
YouTube video by ROY
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October 14, 2025 at 11:48 PM
royalyoung.bsky.social
I’m on an
Empty street
I thought
I heard
A creep
I feel
The silent heat
I’m caught in
The fantasy

www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5Gm...

#witchhouse #vaporwave #creep #nonbinary #undergroundmusic #futuregarage 🩵🥀🎶🔥
October 11, 2025 at 8:43 PM
royalyoung.bsky.social
But they say
That we can’t
Be
Till
The world
Has shifted
Walking down
Delancey
You know
I’m lifted

#triphop #delancey #nonbinary #nyc #streetart #undergroundmusic 🩵🌆📻🔥

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Delancey
YouTube video by ROY
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October 10, 2025 at 9:16 PM
royalyoung.bsky.social
Take a picture
Maybe it will
Last

#chillwave #undergroundmusic #triphop #takeapicture #vaporwave 🩵📸🎶🌊

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Take A Picture
YouTube video by ROY
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September 28, 2025 at 9:48 PM
royalyoung.bsky.social
Desert roadtrips w true friends soundtrack vibes

#sedona #desertart #vaporwave #roadtrip 🩵🏜️🎶🌠

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLEE...
We Got The Power ft. Mooney
YouTube video by ROY
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September 28, 2025 at 1:10 AM
royalyoung.bsky.social
I’ve been thinking
How
All the stars
Align*

Stoked to be on this cosmic track with my sibling Fury Young !

#vaporwave #cosmic #undergroundmusic #synthwave #astrology 🩵🌠🤘🔥

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ytD...
Fury Young - Middle of the Nite ft. ROY
YouTube video by FuryYoungVEVO
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September 26, 2025 at 7:02 PM
royalyoung.bsky.social
We’re ready
To glow now
But they don’t
Get our
Pronouns

#pronouns #vaporwave #dreamcore #nonbinary #undergroundmusic 🩵🙌📻💋

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHAq...
September 23, 2025 at 1:50 AM
royalyoung.bsky.social
For @phoenixnewtimes.com I spoke with Arizona artist Antoinette Cauley on her James Baldwin mural in the Phoenix city skyline & his quote “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”

#art #writing #jamesbaldwin #muralart
September 22, 2025 at 9:31 PM
royalyoung.bsky.social
Can I kick it
Out of my way
Skip cracks
In the streets
Like back
In the day

#retrowave #90skid #vaporwave #popart #keithharing #stoopdreams 🩵🌆📻🔥

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Stoop Dreams
YouTube video by ROY
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September 21, 2025 at 9:55 PM
royalyoung.bsky.social
We were just a
Bittersweet thing
I can’t
Explain it

#bittersweet #vaporwave #triphop #darkwave #undergroundmusic 🩵🥀🎶💋

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ERW...
September 17, 2025 at 9:04 PM
royalyoung.bsky.social
For @phoenixnewtimes.com I wrote about Sketch Club Cafe, a desert gathering of diverse creatives who focus on sketchbooks & the beauty of exploring art with no judgement

#art #writing #sketchbooks 🩵🎨📘
September 15, 2025 at 10:11 PM
royalyoung.bsky.social
For @phoenixnewtimes.com I wrote about cosmic art, earthly longing, terraforming planets & the otherworldly desert landscape in a David Bowie inspired exhibition “Life On Mars”

#art #writing #desertart #lifeonmars 🩵☄️🏜️🖼️

www.phoenixnewtimes.com/arts/scottsd...
September 12, 2025 at 6:32 PM