Machine Gun Kelly’s Pop-Punk Pivot

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🗓️ 27 April 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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After decreasing returns in the hip-hop world, the musician and actor stepped into a revival that had roots in SoundCloud rap, and a champion in Travis Barker. Guests: Meaghan Garvey and Arielle Gordon.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the New York Times Popcast, your foundational rite of spring of music, music,
0:10.0	and criticism.
0:11.0	I'm your host, John Kerr, Monica.
0:26.5	Who amongst us has not fallen in love with an emo girl?
0:29.7	Really?
0:30.7	It is a universal sentiment, and finally it has been put to song.
0:35.5	That is what you are listening to.
0:37.1	That is MGK, FK, DBA, machine gun Kelly, DBA, MGK, with Willow, off of the most recent
0:46.1	MGK album, mainstream sellout, which somewhat paradoxically is his second number one album
0:52.1	in the country.
0:53.7	Somehow the rise of MGK has gone unremarked upon on podcasts, but the silence on the MGK
1:00.6	situation stops today.
1:02.5	We are joined on podcasts by two writers who have recently contributed central pieces
1:08.2	to the canon of writing about the pop punk phase of machine gun Kelly.
1:13.3	First, back on podcasts, Megan Garvey, who wrote the recent billboard cover story on machine
1:19.5	gun Kelly coming from Chicago today, Megan?
1:22.3	Is that right?
1:23.3	I'm actually in Texas, oddly enough, right now, but I don't claim, I don't claim Texas
1:27.5	so much.
1:28.5	I wish I had a, okay, calling from Texas, claiming Chicago also first time on podcast and
1:36.1	coming to really, we're going to apply some deep emo theology on top of MGK.
1:42.9	It's Ariel Gordon, Ariel.
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