Machine Gun Kelly continues his melodic direction with โay!โ the second single from mainstream sellout featuring Lil Wayne.
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all Machine Gun Kelly a rapper turned pop-punk singerโฆ I think. After earning newfound success on his 2020 album, Tickets to my Downfall, Kells continues in a melodic direction ahead of his 2022 album, mainstream sellout. My first encounter with a song from mainstream sellout, โemo girlโ (featuring WILLOW) merely had me shaking my head โ NOT GOOD. My second encounter, โay!โ, featuring Lil Wayne, is an improvement but not particularly deep.โI wrote a letter to myself / In the form of a song I can play when the sun shines,โ MGK sings on the first verse of โay!โ, continuing, โI know better than to trust / Anything that I say to myself when Iโm this high.โ Um, okayโฆ sure. From there, he delivers a short, predictable chorus where the big takeaway is that he โdonโt ever wanna fall when Iโm this high.โ The second verse he serves up has more meat, but donโt call it high-level poetry. It encompasses drugs, depression, and, not giving a fuck, something he asserts at the end of the verse before the chorus returns. At that point, Lil Wayne enters the picture, focusing on โ you guessed it โ his high. โWhy you got yoโ nose up? I smell like Guns Nโ Roses.โ Honestly, thatโs about the size of this two-minute-and-change number. Compared to โemo girl,โ itโs slightly more closely related to hip-hop but still a far cry from his days of slaughtering with those un-pitched rhymes.
Final Thoughts
So, how does โay!โ stack up? Itโs meh at best. This is a better effort from Machine Gun Kelly than โemo girlโ but itโs still nothing substantial. Does it provide a temporary high? Yes, but the buzz doesnโt last long in the least. Itโs forgettable all said and done. And letโs not forget, Lil Wayneโs own rock phase was questionableโฆ save for โDrop the Worldโ โ maybe โProm Queenโ!
Machine Gun Kelly โข mainstream sellout โข Bad Boy / Interscope โข 3.25.22
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Machine Gun Kelly, โmaybeโ | Track Review ยท March 21, 2022 at 8:00 am
[โฆ] mainstream sellout. Following mainstream sellout singles โemo girlโ and โay!โ, MGK collaborates with Bring Me the Horizon on his third advance single, โmaybeโ. The [โฆ]
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