Machine Gun Kelly, “ay!” | Track Review 🎵

Machine Gun Kelly continues his melodic direction with “ay!” the second single from mainstream sellout featuring Lil Wayne.

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all 🎙 Machine Gun Kelly a rapper turned pop-punk singer… 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, 🎵 “emo girl” (featuring 🎙 WILLOW) merely had me shaking my head – NOT GOOD.  My second encounter, 🎵 “ay!”, featuring 🎙 Lil Wayne, is an improvement but not particularly deep.

“I wrote a letter to myself / In the form of a song I can play when the sun shines,” MGK sings on the first verse of “ay!”, continuing, “I know better than to trust / Anything that I say to myself when I’m this high.” Um, okay… sure.  From there, he delivers a short, predictable chorus where the big takeaway is that he “don’t ever wanna fall when I’m this high.” The second verse he serves up has more meat, but don’t 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 – you guessed it – his high.  “Why you got yo’ nose up? I smell like Guns N’ Roses.”  Honestly, that’s about the size of this two-minute-and-change number.  Compared to “emo girl,” it’s slightly more closely related to hip-hop but still a far cry from his days of slaughtering with those un-pitched rhymes.

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Final Thoughts 💭

So, how does “ay!” stack up? It’s meh at best.  This is a better effort from Machine Gun Kelly than “emo girl” but it’s still nothing substantial.  Does it provide a temporary high? Yes, but the buzz doesn’t last long in the least.  It’s forgettable all said and done.  And let’s not forget, Lil Wayne’s own rock phase was questionable… save for 🎵 “Drop the World” – maybe 🎵 “Prom Queen”!

 

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🎙 Machine Gun Kelly • 💿 mainstream sellout • 🏷 Bad Boy / Interscope • 🗓 3.25.22

[📷: Bad Boy, Brent Faulkner, Interscope, The Musical Hype, OpenClipart-Vectors from Pixabay]

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