An altered play on Roald Dahl’s ‘Cinderella’, the short rhyme is used to connect the story, which in Dahl’s version, sees Cinderella instead opt for a normal life, with a normal, lower class man, to Kanye’s newfound desire to get as far away from the public eye as possible, realising that once you’ve achieved mainstream celebrity status, even your smallest wrongdoing will be blown up. Opening track ‘Dark Fantasy’ begins with the above poem, read by Nicki Minaj.
Well gather round children, zip it, listen”. You haven’t, the real one is far too mean, “You might think you’ve peeped the scene, I’m going to do things a little differently here – considering just how much there is to talk about with ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’, I think it’s fitting we go through this huge record track-by-track… With a little help from his friends (we’ll get to those), he braided his personal discomfort with themes of socio-political struggles, the concept of celebrity, and a cripplingly brilliant new production style. The rapper/producer earned himself even more acclaim with ‘Dark Twisted’, even more so than what he generated with ‘Late Registration’ and ‘The College Dropout’ – this is in part due to the brutal autobiographical narrative the album possesses, as Kanye gives himself a bit of therapy in regards to the negative public backlash he’d been on the receiving end of over the previous year or so, resulting in him placing himself in exile.
A 52-date arena tour with Avril Lavigne and a rotating cast of openers is set to begin on June 8 and, two weeks prior on May 20, the stoner comedy film Good Mourning, starring MGK and Lavigne's new fiancé and fellow pop-punk rocker Mod Sun, will be released on select pay-per-view platforms.Often considered his magnum opus, 2010’s ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’ shined a light on the dark side of Kanye West. There's more than a rap/hip-hop album on the horizon, however. "That was fun for me because I knew how we could one-up Tickets," MGK said of the experience making his latest album. He's still searching for what the "next version" of his pop-punk sound is and is hoping to be struck by the "right inspiration," like how he was on Mainstream Sellout by merging different musical worlds, namely bringing some of his hip-hop and rap influences to the fold. That’s where my excitement is and where me as a music archaeologist wants to explore." I need to now also make people miss that sound," he continued, "because Tickets and Mainstream Sellout are companion albums, I don't think making a third that's so is going to be exciting unless it's missed."ĭivulging the next steps he plans to take, MGK went on, "So I’m going to do this tour and I’m gonna step into where I left Hotel Diablo and expand on my storytelling as a rapper and find a new innovative sound for the hip-hop Machine Gun Kelly. "I made Tickets and Mainstream Sellout because I wanted to make them. 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 32-year-old told Kenney. For no other reason, no point to prove, no chip on my shoulder. "I’m going to make a rap album for myself.
Careful not to wear out his welcome, MGK cited a number of reasons for returning to rap on this proposed followup to Mainstream Sellout.