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Kelly’s best advice for the younger generation? “Your teachers are full of s**t / You don’t need to go to school / Life’s gonna kick your ass anyway.” He continues to pile on the teen angst. It surpasses “so bad it’s good” territory altogether, probably landing somewhere in the realm of “so-bad-you-wonder-how-it-ever-saw-the-light-of-day.”įor a body of work that references drugs as much as “mainstream sellout,” you’d expect it to at least try to appeal to an audience that can see R-rated movies. “emo girl” is entirely composed of its subject’s stereotypes: she wears black boots, eyeliner, and a Blink-182 tee. Aside from the creepiness of Kelly pining over a suspiciously archetypical teenage girl, the song is mind-numbingly moronic. When single “emo girl” began to make the rounds on TikTok in February, the biggest conclusion I drew was that that Kelly’s marketing strategy is based solely on the saying “all publicity is good publicity”: it was deservedly mocked to hell and back on social media (for reference, he’s engaged to Megan Fox). Beyond that, the album flat-out refuses to make any engaging sonic choices, resulting in a product that sounds like the same dated song cut and pasted 15 times over.
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But the self-awareness present on that record, which gave Kelly some leeway with embarrassingly immature lyrics, is completely absent from his newest project, “mainstream sellout.” It’s as if he now truly thinks he’s a savior for the misunderstood teens of the 2020’s, tossing skin-deep nihilism over painfully repetitive guitars for 40 straight minutes.
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But greatness is in the eye of the beholder, so it starts with you.Machine Gun Kelly took a musical pivot two years ago when he swapped rap for 2000’s pop-punk with “Tickets to My Downfall.” A surprisingly slick endeavor, “Tickets” presented a smorgasbord of dumb fun with catchy enough choruses to make up for from its hollowness. Uh, it's just me against the world Lost my mistress and my girl All they wanted was what's in my safe And all I wanted was just to be great Contemplate, real or fake, all these people in my face Wasn't ready for the fame, I flipped my shit and caught a case, Looking at my fans like I can't ball without a base They understand, ride till the end Now bow our heads and let us pray, Amen And after all these years of crime and malice I look down and see I'm cold and calloused And while our sins are to fifthly to bear We have to wash them down, now grab your chalice And toast to those who always raised their glasses When most never chose to go against the masses So if you ride or die let me see them Ls And I'll take you to a place where we can be ourselves Look, Hollywood is not my type of party Nah, look what happened to Chris Farley Rest in peace him and Christopher Wallace, mo' money, mo' problems And less people then when you started, shit And you wonder why I don't drink coffee I don't wanna wake up to these problems of a boss like John Gotti I'd rather be Che Guevara mixed with a little bit of Marcus Garvey In hopes of a revolution as results of my anarchy But I’m hardly ever home so I guess I'll be quick Everybody wanna have their two cents: take it, here, I don't owe y'all shit Smoke a zip, change my clothes and give my five-year-old a kiss Family mad at my success, don't they say hate is where home is? Damn So it's just me against the world Lost my mistress and my girl All they wanted was what's in my safe When all I wanted was just to be great, Kells