In September 2025, a few days after My Only Angel launched Aerosmith and Yungblud’s One More Time EP, a second title surfaced. A fragment of “Problems” flashed past in a lyric video on Aerosmith’s Instagram stories, and fans had the words transcribed within hours. It read as a love song with the bruises left on: a narrator worn down by city nights and bad bargains, who decides none of it matters as long as he has the other person.
The EP arrived on 21 November 2025, with “Problems” at track two. The story behind it turned out to be simpler than the lyric suggested, and it starts with Yungblud.
According to Rolling Stone UK’s cover story, Dominic Harrison walked into the Los Angeles sessions in May 2025 with a song he had been working on during his tour bus travels. It was largely written already. Tyler started harmonising over it straight away, in his own odd way as Harrison put it, and by that evening the song was close to finished. It became the first thing the group recorded together, in a studio owned by Johnny Depp, with Harrison’s producer Matt Schwartz at the desk.
That makes “Problems” the reverse of how Aerosmith usually worked. For fifty years the band built songs from a Perry riff upward, with Tyler finding melodies and words on top. Here an outside writer brought a nearly complete song, and the band joined in. Perry, by his own account to Guitar World, saw the whole project as a two-way exchange, with each side inspired by the other. The riff seems to be what pulled Perry in, and it is the part reviewers keep returning to. Still, all four new songs on the EP carry the same shared credit: Tyler, Perry, Harrison and Schwartz.
On the finished track, Harrison carries most of the lead. Tyler takes a single verse, and his voice does its other work in the background: harmonies, ad-libs and a chanted backing line that tells the listener to get out of their own head. Perry told Rolling Stone UK that Tyler was hitting notes he never expected to hear again.
The early reading of the lyric still stands. “Problems” is less a romance than a survival song, which suits a band whose own history runs on addiction, break-ups, injuries and comebacks. What the fragment could not show was the shape of the collaboration. “Problems” was Yungblud’s song first, and Aerosmith made room in it. That turned out to be the model for the whole EP.
Yeah, I know I’ve felt you in my life
In the streets of every city
Where I dream at night
I met all the bitter scenes, and I was sold
But to get to where you want
You can’t do what you’re told
When you don’t know what it is, then you see
When you don’t know what it is, then you see
I got a whole lot of problems
But it don’t matter when I’m with you
A whole lot of nothin’
If I can’t have it all with you
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