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For Sombr, performing his hit breakup lament \u201cBack to Friends\u201d each night means revisiting \u201ca really dark point\u201d of his life, and he wouldn\u2019t have it any other way.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery night when I play it, I relive everything I was feeling that night when I wrote it,\u201d he says as MTV\u2019s Global Push Artist for September. \u201cAll the emotions come back. That song saved me in a way, and being able to end my show with it\u2026 It\u2019s just, like, full circle every night.\u201d<\/p>\n
More from Rolling Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n Along with recording a new life rendition of the track as the MTV Push Artist, he will also make his awards show performance debut on Sept. 7 at the 2025 MTV VMAs, where he\u2019s nominated for both Best New Artist and Best Alternative.<\/p>\n As for where he gets his inspiration, Sombr, born Shane Boose, grew up listening to \u201cwhat my dad played around the house,\u201d he adds, \u201cwhich was like The Beatles, The Stones, Radiohead, Velvet Underground, just amazing bands. My earliest memories are my dad playing guitar. We always had instruments at my house, and I remember the first song I wrote with my sister. I was probably, like, six. So as long as I can remember it\u2019s been a part of me. It\u2019s hard for me to remember a reality without music, it doesn\u2019t exist for me.\u201d<\/p>\n Sombr is enjoying his rapid success. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to step back and be like, \u2018Wow, this is amazing\u2019 when everything is happening so fast, but it is the best thing that has ever happened to me,\u201d he tells MTV. \u201cBeing able to meet all these people, go to all these countries, and see all these new faces and beautiful people who connect with my music \u2014 it\u2019s all I ever wanted to do in my life, so it\u2019s the best thing ever.\u201d<\/p>\n The 2025 MTV VMAs air live from New York\u2019s UBS Arena on Sunday, Sept. 7 at 8 p.m. ET on CBS, simulcast on MTV and streaming on Paramount+.<\/p>\n Best of Rolling Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for RollingStone’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For Sombr, performing his hit breakup lament \u201cBack to Friends\u201d each night means revisiting \u201ca really dark point\u201d of his life, and he wouldn\u2019t have it any other way. \u201cEvery night when I play it, I relive everything I was feeling that night when I wrote it,\u201d he says as MTV\u2019s Global Push Artist for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1992924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[307878,360502,314737],"class_list":["post-1992923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-mtv","tag-mtv-push-artist","tag-rolling-stone"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Sombr-Says-His-Hit-\u2018Back-to-Friends-Came-From-a.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1992923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1992924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1992923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1992923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1992923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}