Ryan Yingst's "U-hall" Review
Ryan Yingst’s “U-Haul” gives me the same feeling of staring at my LinkedIn profile at 2 a.m. and wondering why I didn’t become something better my life. The Hershey-born folk journeyman (flannel enthusiast, spreadsheet whisperer, and certified overthinker) crafts a ballad for the chronically restless—the kind of people who daydream about burning their IKEA furniture mid-assembly. The premise? Life is a U-Haul truck. Not as a metaphor for love, but as a middle finger to monotony. Yingst’s lyrics ditch weepy breakup tropes to ask: What if we just… left? This song is less about heartache and more about the existential dread of being a millennial who accidentally “adulted” too well(god I hate that word). The chorus is catchy in that way that makes you want to quit your side hustle and move to Thailand—or at least repost the song with a “MOOD” caption. I can just feel the existential dread coming out of this song. Being a young person in our world right now crippling economy, an...