mgk, Orpheus | Bangerz N Bopz 🔥

In the 86^th edition of Bangerz N Bopz 🔥 (2025), we highlight “Orpheus” performed by rapper turned singer mgk. 

Bring on the bold, fierce songs! Bangerz N Bopz 🔥 serves up background info and insight into songs of various styles, especially songs that raise eyebrows and/or stir the pot.  Featured records can be classic or brand new. In the 86^th edition of Bangerz N Bopz 🔥 (2025), we break down “Orpheus” performed by mgk.

“Somewhere in a different realm, we’re still together / Somehow, I’ll find my way to you again.” Uh-oh, it’s giving tragic loss… Let those deep, emotional lyrics from mgk (Colson Baker) sink in.  Those love/relationship-oriented lines hail from “Orpheus,” the 13^th and final track from his seventh studio album, Lost Americana (2025).   The second-longest song from Lost Americana, it runs over four and a half minutes.  Notably, he penned “Orpheus” with his ex, actress Megan Fox. BazeXX, Dark Waves, No Love For The Middle Child, and SlimXX produced it.

Expectedly, “Orpheus” references mythological figures Orpheus and his wife, Eurydice. After Eurydice tragically dies (“Eurydice died from a viper”), Orpheus is filled with grief (“The girl Orpheus knew he’d die for”).  He makes a trip to the underworld and, through his gift of music, convinces Hades to let Eurydice return to Earth.  All he has to do is have Eurydice walk behind him and not look back.  Easier said than done, as Orpheus, paranoid, looks back and loses Eurydice again, forever.  Paralleled in the first verse, mgk asserts, “‘Cause life’s just death if I don’t have you / So I’ll find Hell to be trapped into.”

Like Orpheus, mgk wants “To get back to you,” specifically, Megan Fox. In the second verse, beyond the lyric excerpted at the top, he adds, “And gravity’s pull was never stronger / Than my soul’s cord attached to you / I’m lost, but my heart’s got the map to you.”  The centerpiece is the chorus, where Orpheus, I mean, mgk, desires to hold her once more – “Feel your heartbeat ‘til it fades / And in this moment, it’s me and you only / I will love you for all my days.” Sandwiched between instrumental moments, including a striking piano-led outro by Jon Batiste, is the bridge, where mgk continues to reflect upon love, stating, “I won’t let you love me, but I can’t let you leave me / It’s a tragedy, and we’ve all seen that scene.” Ultimately, mgk sings authentically, beautifully, and sincerely on this pop ballad. “Orpheus” caps off the critically maligned album in a heartfelt manner.

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mgk » EST 19XX, LLC / Interscope » 2025

mgk, Orpheus: Bangerz N Bopz 🔥 No. 86 (2025) [📷: Brent Faulkner / The Musical Hype; EST 19XX, LLC / Interscope; Bigshow Lamar Campton, Daniel Duarte, Eduardo López from Pexels; AcatXIo, djexpectations, OpenClipart-Vectors, Thai Zeo from Pixabay]

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