We have some bad news for Mick Jagger: the Rolling Stones bandleader's appointed rock saviour Machine Gun Kelly is planning on turning his back on pop-punk after two consecutive No. 1 albums — but just to return to rap music, so don't get too excited or anything.
In a new interview with Audacy, the artist born Colson Baker (but you may also know him as Weed) discussed how he planned to follow up his recent album, the Japanese Breakfast-lookalike Mainstream Sellout. Though it was the wrestler-turned-rapper's sixth album total, it was the second — after 2020's Tickets to My Downfall — for which he embraced a pop-punk sound.
"I'm going to make a rap album for myself," he told interviewer Kevan Kenney. "For no other reason — no point to prove, no chip on my shoulder... If I keep doing things to prove things to people, I'm going to, one, drive myself crazy, and two, not make a good product," the musician said.
"I made Tickets and Mainstream Sellout because I wanted to make them. I need to now also make people miss that sound," Mr. Megan Fox continued, explaining that he considers the two LPs to be companion albums. "I don't think making a third that's so [sonically aligned with the last two albums] is going to be exciting unless it's missed." Well, yeah, absence does make the heart grow fonder — but imagine how much our fondness could grow if this guy completely vanished, Witness Protection Program-style?
"I'm going to do this tour," MGK went on, referring to the huge arena trek he'll embark on this summer with fellow pop-punk mavens Avril Lavigne, Travis Barker and WILLOW in tow, "and I'm gonna step into where I left [off with] Hotel Diablo and expand on my storytelling as a rapper and find a new innovative sound for the hip-hop Machine Gun Kelly."
He added: "That's where my excitement is and where me as a music archaeologist wants to explore."
And there lie the fossilized remains of at least one "emo girl."
You can listen to the interview below if you're into that kind of thing.
The now-former rocker recently covered "Aerials" by System of a Down, while Alice Glass urged people to recognize his "disgusting" commentary fetishizing underage girls and Black women.
In a new interview with Audacy, the artist born Colson Baker (but you may also know him as Weed) discussed how he planned to follow up his recent album, the Japanese Breakfast-lookalike Mainstream Sellout. Though it was the wrestler-turned-rapper's sixth album total, it was the second — after 2020's Tickets to My Downfall — for which he embraced a pop-punk sound.
"I'm going to make a rap album for myself," he told interviewer Kevan Kenney. "For no other reason — no point to prove, no chip on my shoulder... If I keep doing things to prove things to people, I'm going to, one, drive myself crazy, and two, not make a good product," the musician said.
"I made Tickets and Mainstream Sellout because I wanted to make them. I need to now also make people miss that sound," Mr. Megan Fox continued, explaining that he considers the two LPs to be companion albums. "I don't think making a third that's so [sonically aligned with the last two albums] is going to be exciting unless it's missed." Well, yeah, absence does make the heart grow fonder — but imagine how much our fondness could grow if this guy completely vanished, Witness Protection Program-style?
"I'm going to do this tour," MGK went on, referring to the huge arena trek he'll embark on this summer with fellow pop-punk mavens Avril Lavigne, Travis Barker and WILLOW in tow, "and I'm gonna step into where I left [off with] Hotel Diablo and expand on my storytelling as a rapper and find a new innovative sound for the hip-hop Machine Gun Kelly."
He added: "That's where my excitement is and where me as a music archaeologist wants to explore."
And there lie the fossilized remains of at least one "emo girl."
You can listen to the interview below if you're into that kind of thing.
The now-former rocker recently covered "Aerials" by System of a Down, while Alice Glass urged people to recognize his "disgusting" commentary fetishizing underage girls and Black women.
