Machine Gun Kelly has commented on his razor-shaped guitar, which has also sparked ridicule online. During an appearance, he said the design was “an ode to ‘Tickets To My Downfall,’ to a line from ‘Title Track.'” He means the following repeated verse from the song released in 2020: “I use a razor to take off the edge, jump off the ledge” – no blade is mentioned elsewhere. Furthermore, Machine Gun Kelly added, the instrument alludes to his twenties, “to all the crazy times I had.”
Machine Gun Kelly doesn’t want to explain art
However, he failed to provide a real explanation – and it will probably stay that way. The musician wrote on And then they blame me for their false version of what they think my art is. Ultimately, I’m sad about how people perceive me.”
The controversial instrument is part of a recently launched collaboration with guitar manufacturer Schecter. In addition to a normal one and one pee Guitar similar to the one on the cover of the album “Tickets To My Downfall” (2020), he sells one whose body is shaped like a razor blade has. It wasn’t just fans who read it as a glorification of self-harming behavior.