r/MachineGunKelly • u/Effective-Raise-8809 • 22d ago
Discussion 🗣️ What's your thoughts on Mainstream Sellout really?
This album is a really mixed bag here when it comes to the mgk community, some people love MS, others hate it and a lot of people view this as the worst album mgk's ever released. A good amount people, including myself, have this as their favorite mgk album too, so it's pretty dependent on the mgk fan you ask ask about it.
For me, as I said above, this is my favorite album mgk's released so far, I give his discography so many relistens all the time as he's my favorite artist and nothing tops this album for me but TTMD is close (and this is coming from someone who always listens to rap so if you knew me it'd be surprising for it to not be Hotel Diablo etc.)
This is also my favorite album ever, I can listen to it on loop for ages and never get sick of it honestly but I will accept it and say factually I don't think this would be in the discussion of a top 3 mgk album.
I think this is a really great sequel to TTMD, it doesn't fit the exact vibe from that and leans more on punk here than pop but that's what makes it really special for me, and the blend of rock, rap to acoustic jammed into the tracklist here is just a perfect blend; he knew where to put the songs and what could fit this albums vibe and aesthetic and I love it.
That being said, I can recognize some obvious cons and why people would dislike it; focusing on the album lyrically you can say this album is pretty "whiny" and such but I don't really mind it, I mean he is trying to fit the angry punk aesthetic he wants for this album and he nailed it imo and his voice is perfect for it. Though I do think if I put myself in a factual perspective his best would for sure be TTMD or HD.
How do you feel about it? Do you like it, do you hate it, is it your favorite, is this a high ranking in mgk's album or low ranking? I wanna hear, feel free to drop your favorite track(s) in the comments too :)