Talking about his upcoming album that he worked with Travis Barker, the 'Bloody Valentine' rapper explains why it will be 'more grown-up' than his 2020's effort, 'Tickets to My Downfall'.
- Oct 25, 2021
AceShowbiz - Machine Gun Kelly's 2022 album "Born With Horns" will be "more grown-up" than "Tickets to My Downfall". The rapper turned pop-punk is working on the new LP with pal Travis Barker and he's promising fans quite a change from his 2020 album.
"It's more guitar-heavy. Lyrically, if 'Tickets to My Downfall' was metaphorically high school, then 'Born With Horns' is college," he told Variety. "And I think like, in high school, you don't really have a sense of responsibility, you have a fear of that responsibility, and so you want to explode and use all that energy for f**king off."
"And then college comes, which is this album, and you are aware of the responsibility and you still know how to have fun, but you understand that there's a certain duty you have to your life to do something with it. 'Born With Horns' feels like it has an objective or a real lesson that you're walking away with."
And Kelly hopes his success will inspire others to live their own dreams and not worry when detractors try to "douse" their plans. "Don't let people douse your dreams with their fears, because your fire should run free," he added.
"There's someone right now who has the potential to be the greatest ever, who is being told it's the dumbest idea to pursue a dream because the person looking at them was too scared to pursue theirs."
"It's the same thing with people in the rock genre who don't want to embrace me, or act like I don't belong... I'm not letting that narrative stick. I'm not letting people continue to f**king bully me out of doing something that has been true to me forever."
