Machine Gun Kelly (2021)

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

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🗓️ 7 August 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Machine Gun Kelly started his music career as a rapper, but it was his punk album Tickets to My Downfall that launched the hard-edged musician to superstardom. In this week’s “Sunday Sitdown,” Willie Geist gets together with the artist to talk about that move to punk after four successful hip-hop albums and his discomfort with the spotlight at the top of the music world. (Original broadcast date: October 10, 2021)

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0:00.0	Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.
0:06.2	My thanks is always for clicking and listening along.
0:08.9	Today we revisit one of our favorite conversations with music superstar, machine gun Kelly.
0:15.0	He and I got together last year.
0:17.1	At the time he was out on tour in support of his platinum selling album, Tickets to My
0:21.6	Downfall, which sort of announced his arrival as a pop punk force.
0:27.4	The album debuted at number one on the Billboard chart.
0:30.3	He previously had had four or five rap albums that were well received, but this was a big
0:35.0	crossover and made him the star he's become since then.
0:38.7	Another album is out that debuted at number one called Mainstream Sellout.
0:43.6	He's currently out on tour in support of that album.
0:46.8	When MGK and I got together, he wasn't in a great mood as we'll come across in the
0:52.0	interview.
0:53.4	He'd had a show the night before he didn't love.
0:55.8	He was just in a mood, but over the course of a long conversation, he and I worked through
0:59.6	some stuff and got to a good place, I think.
1:02.9	So please enjoy once again right now on the Sunday Sit Down Podcast, machine gun Kelly.
1:08.4	You said that on stage last night when you were put on that show and giving off all that
1:13.4	energy and that vibe to your fans or giving it right back to you.
1:16.4	You said at one point, I've got so much going on in my mind right now.
1:21.8	What did you mean when you said that?
1:23.4	I think I'm just losing my footing on how to be human.
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