When all the praise is coming from teens looking for an identity to glom onto and his circle of friends who are within the same rungs of celebrity (or desperately wishing to be so), that leaves a big character flaw in any sort of development. The blatant truth, which is strewn about the entire album’s prose, is that he thinks he is too big to fail and we should all accept that. Trying to accurately pin down all of the clichés, whiffs, and missteps of what could have been a decent follow-up to a very successful album is mind boggling. Machine Gun Kelly so desperately wants to be ahead of the joke and razz on himself before anyone else can, all while being the savior of rock that the commercial magazines and blogs are painting him to be, that he forgot to write anything at all worth listening to and served up a cheap knock-off of its predecessor. This point leads directly into his new album Mainstream Sellout. When a man pushing thirty years old (at the time of the album) is so obviously pandering to middle and high school students, it is hard to take him seriously. Lyrically, it is just okay.I feel like he got way more hate for his image and subsequent abhorrent movie Downfalls High that went along with the album and that retroactively washed away any sincerity there was to be found lyric-wise.
Unfortunately, his vocal range is limited and becomes grating at points. There were parts that worked really well musically it was pretty catchy and, like it or not, MGK can write a good melody line. Overall, it was exactly what it set out to achieve: a pop-punk album written by a moderately successful rapper who wanted to expand upon a previous collaboration with this era’s arguably most well know drummer. Setting aside all musical integrity and whatnot, I thought Machine Gun Kelly’s 2020 album Tickets To My Downfall was okay.not great, mind you, but more so a curious specimen to bear witness to and revel in the novelty of. While I knowingly did this to myself, goddammed if I did not know how bad it would actually be.
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