One of the most interesting little details to come out of the One More Time story is that the Joe Perry and YUNGBLUD connection seems to go back further than most fans probably realised. In Rolling Stone UK’s feature on the project, it was revealed that YUNGBLUD went to Perry’s home in Sarasota in July 2024, where they “worked on some as-yet-unreleased songs” while Steven Tyler was still recuperating. That immediately raises the obvious question: what happened to those tracks?
Perry later told People that he and YUNGBLUD spent four days in the studio getting to know each other and working with his team, and that only later, by May 2025, Steven joined them to record new music. Add to that Perry’s later comment that the eventual Aerosmith/YUNGBLUD EP songs were written “in pieces”, and it starts to sound very possible that more material existed than what ultimately made the release.
That is where the fun speculation begins. If Joe Perry ends up turning back to solo work after the already announced 2026 Hollywood Vampires UK and Europe tour, those earlier Joe/YUNGBLUD songs would be a very interesting place to start. They may not have fit the final Aerosmith/YUNGBLUD EP, but that does not mean they are gone. In fact, they could be exactly the kind of left-field, guitar-driven material that might resurface on a future Perry-led record.
Nothing official suggests that is the plan, of course. But the timeline now looks clearer: first came the Sarasota writing in July 2024, then the four-day Joe/YUNGBLUD studio connection, then the May 2025 sessions with Steven, and finally the EP the world heard. For fans who love tracing the roads not taken, that leaves a very tasty possibility sitting on the table: a few unreleased Joe Perry and YUNGBLUD songs still waiting for their moment.
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