Alice Glass has called out Machine Gun Kelly's misogynistic behaviour, unearthing two old interview clips that show the former wrestler objectifying Black women and a then-17-year-old Kendall Jenner.
In a Twitter thread, Glass began by giving a trigger warning before sharing the first video, which she calls "disgusting." The clip sees MGK giving a red carpet interview and saying, "Black women give the best head," then cussing out a Black woman standing off-camera who was offended, calling her a "dirty dick bitch."
"Why, as a white man, would you ever talk like this? Fetishizing Black women and in such a disrespectful way!?" Glass wrote. "Show respect for Black women [whose] culture you are appropriating," adding: "This was beyond disgusting."
It's worth noting that the interviewer in the video responded to the tweet, saying: "I asked him a question and he answered." She's previously addressed how the clip has been taken out of context: apparently, another publication had previously asked him the same question and he'd answered, so she asked him about "loving chocolate." The woman MGK cussed out had reportedly been talking over the journalist's interviews and getting on her nerves all day.
The former Crystal Castles singer went on to clarify that her commentary isn't just about MGK — she's looking at a "bigger picture."
"This is about how men who act like this are still given power and opportunities in an industry that willfully perpetuates sexist, racist and abusive behaviour," she continued. "[I]t needs to change."
In the other old video, a 23-year-old MGK calls a then-17-year-old Kendall Jenner his celebrity crush and, in Glass's words, "blurts out a justification for statutory rape that amounts to 'it's okay because other famous men did it.'" She added that it seemed as if he'd given it a lot of thought, "quickly rattling off a list of examples that encourage predatory behaviour towards underage girls," naming Robert Plant and Axl Rose as legendary musicians who had dated minors.
When the interviewer asked if the artist was "counting down the days" until Jenner's 18th birthday, he responded: "I'm not waiting till she's 18, I'll go now — I'm 23, dawg! I'm not like, a creepy age," adding that since Jenner was a celebrity, there were "no limitations."
See Glass's Twitter thread — including the MGK interview clips — below.
In a Twitter thread, Glass began by giving a trigger warning before sharing the first video, which she calls "disgusting." The clip sees MGK giving a red carpet interview and saying, "Black women give the best head," then cussing out a Black woman standing off-camera who was offended, calling her a "dirty dick bitch."
"Why, as a white man, would you ever talk like this? Fetishizing Black women and in such a disrespectful way!?" Glass wrote. "Show respect for Black women [whose] culture you are appropriating," adding: "This was beyond disgusting."
It's worth noting that the interviewer in the video responded to the tweet, saying: "I asked him a question and he answered." She's previously addressed how the clip has been taken out of context: apparently, another publication had previously asked him the same question and he'd answered, so she asked him about "loving chocolate." The woman MGK cussed out had reportedly been talking over the journalist's interviews and getting on her nerves all day.
The former Crystal Castles singer went on to clarify that her commentary isn't just about MGK — she's looking at a "bigger picture."
"This is about how men who act like this are still given power and opportunities in an industry that willfully perpetuates sexist, racist and abusive behaviour," she continued. "[I]t needs to change."
In the other old video, a 23-year-old MGK calls a then-17-year-old Kendall Jenner his celebrity crush and, in Glass's words, "blurts out a justification for statutory rape that amounts to 'it's okay because other famous men did it.'" She added that it seemed as if he'd given it a lot of thought, "quickly rattling off a list of examples that encourage predatory behaviour towards underage girls," naming Robert Plant and Axl Rose as legendary musicians who had dated minors.
When the interviewer asked if the artist was "counting down the days" until Jenner's 18th birthday, he responded: "I'm not waiting till she's 18, I'll go now — I'm 23, dawg! I'm not like, a creepy age," adding that since Jenner was a celebrity, there were "no limitations."
See Glass's Twitter thread — including the MGK interview clips — below.
