If Valentine’s Day had a hangover and decided to start a band in north-central Ohio, it would probably sound like Yellow No. 5.
“Be Mine” is not your soft-focus, hold-hands-in-the-rain breakup song. It’s the text you type, delete, re-type, and absolutely should not send—but do anyway. From the first punch of post-grunge grit to the sticky, shout-it-in-your-car hook, Yellow No. 5 lean all the way into the messy middle of heartbreak. No closure. No clean ending. Just feelings, loud and slightly on fire.
What I love most about “Be Mine” is that it doesn’t pretend the narrator is some wounded saint. There’s blame. There’s ego. There’s that uncomfortable moment of self-awareness where you realize, “Oh. I might also be the problem.” The band thrives in that contradiction. The melody is pop-punk catchy, the tension hums with dark-pop bite, and the whole thing feels like it was written at 1:37 a.m. after a fight you’re still replaying in your head.
Raised in the Rust Belt and clearly forged in sweaty DIY venues, Yellow No. 5 don’t sand down their edges. The production hits hard but keeps the grit intact. You can hear the miles in it—the hundreds of shows, the shared bills with bands like Sponge and Jimmie’s Chicken Shack, the jukebox spins across the country. This is a group that understands momentum. They don’t just write songs; they road-test them.
And honestly? “Be Mine” feels built for the stage. You can already picture the crowd yelling the hook back at them somewhere between Ashland and Austin on the “RUST TO DUST” tour. It’s tight, confrontational, and cathartic in the best way—the kind of track that lets you process your emotional baggage at full volume without pretending you’ve unpacked it.
Yellow No. 5 aren’t interested in polite endings. They’re interested in truth, tension, and turning unresolved feelings into something you can blast through your speakers. “Be Mine” proves they’re not just surviving the fallout—they’re soundtracking it.
Breakups are messy. Yellow No. 5 make them fun.
Listen to “Be Mine” on Spotify here.
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