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- Summary: The rapper turns toward pop-punk on his fifth full-length release executive produced by Travis Barker and featuring guest appearances from Blackbear, Iann Dior, Halsey, and Trippie Redd.
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- Record Label: Interscope
- Genre(s): Rap, Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Hardcore Rap, Midwest Rap, Contemporary Rap, Pop Punk
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Concert for Aliens | |
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The headlines say, "the world is over" Whatever happened to a fairy tale ending You can't pass if you don't know the code word I'm inside of a UFO... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Positive: 6 out of 7
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Mixed: 0 out of 7
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Negative: 1 out of 7
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Sep 28, 2020Not only is Tickets To My Downfall a slick sideways hop from what you might be expecting from Machine Gun Kelly, it’s done excellently. It celebrates everything great about pop-punk without feeling cookie-cutter or third division. It also finds its energy from the knots Kells works through in the lyrics.
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Sep 28, 2020Boisterous, full of sincerity and exciting enough to make you jump on a table in the middle of a board meeting, ‘Tickets To My Downfall’ is an album that not only proves MGK can do whatever the hell he likes, but that also maybe pop-punk still has something important to offer the world.
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Sep 28, 2020While some songs are more interesting than others and some tend too close to blink-182 worship, Tickets to My Downfall succeeds more than it falters. While it would rank as a slightly above average album for any given pop-punk band, there's an added excitement in how risky this about-face is for a multi-platinum artist who could have easily turned in the same record he made last time.
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Oct 1, 2020he annoying melodrama that made his rap material so exhausting is what gives his new music some real power. For the first time ever, the instrumentation suits Baker’s natural whine.
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Oct 2, 2020On Tickets To My Downfall he tries a new gambit that works surprisingly well, switching to late-Nineties/early-2000s pop punk, with Blink 182’s Travis Barker producing and playing drums. Trashily lachrymose and full of easily digestible angst.
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Sep 30, 2020Thematically, Tickets to My Downfall is hardly a departure from MGK’s past work, but the new surroundings lightens his music up considerably even amidst the hormones and histrionics. With Travis Barker on his side, he might win over skeptics accusing him of trend-hopping, but the best part of Downfall is that he doesn’t take the whole endeavor too seriously.
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Sep 28, 2020Despite its competence musically, Tickets to My Downfall’s cookie-cutter, antiquated presentation and MGK’s blatant ignorance make it a truly punishing experience to sit through. Punk by definition is supposed to be something that comes straight from the heart in all its raw ugliness, but this album is the anthesis of that and doesn’t even try to hide its overt shallowness.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 36 out of 45
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Mixed: 1 out of 45
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Negative: 8 out of 45
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Oct 1, 2020
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Jan 24, 2021This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Oct 2, 2020Love this album. I don't skip any songs on it I've always been a huge fan, but seems like he is super happy and it shows.
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May 16, 2022
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Mar 20, 2021MGK made me like this genre! I'm inlove with him and to all of the songs. The features are not force as well.
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May 30, 2021
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Apr 25, 2021All the songs were appalling couldn't even hear the lyrics with such loud background music
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