Machine Gun Kelly rules out a full explanation of the controversial design.
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 on his signature Schecter guitar Razor Blade: “It’s kind of an ode to Tickets To My Downfall, the line on title track and also an ode to my 20s and all the crazy times that I had”
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— julia 🍤 (@mgkmagic) January 8, 2024
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.”
I’ll never explain my art, because true art is conversational and always up for interpretation, but I will say, most of you constantly interpret it wrong. and then blame me for your version of what you think my art is. ultimately im sad at how people perceive me in general. peace.peace
— blonde don (@machinegunkelly) January 10, 2024
The controversial instrument is part of a recently launched collaboration with guitar manufacturer Schecter. In addition to a normal one and one pee Guitar that is 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.