Musicians join the public in showing Machine Gun Kelly that he does not belong on the rock stage.
After MGK got booed at his Louder Than Life festival set, some rock artists supported the crowd in how displeased they were with MGK waltzing in the well respected genre with his attention grabbing tricks.
Shaun Morgan, the lead vocalist and guitarist of a South African rock band Seether founded in 1999, was the first one to raise his voice. He did it on the same Louder Than Life festival stage. During his set, he thanked the audience for booing MGK.
Later, Shaun Morgan elaborated on it to a rock radio show Loudwire Nights:
I congratulated the crowd for booing that prick off the stage. Here’s my thing — You were a rapper, you got rapped out of rapping because you got so owned by Eminem. Then you come to rock for example, and it’s more pop punk than anything else as I consider it, but yeah, I just had to say something. I was proud of those people. I didn’t feel like you belong on a stage like that after one or two singles just because you’ve got a name and a fancy girlfriend and now you’re a big headliner at a rock festival. And especially not when you take on one of metal’s greatest singers and you think that you’re gonna get away with it. I was very impressed by them and I had to thank them, and I had to let them know that they were doing God’s work.
The Seether’s lead is not alone. Many rock artists were appalled by MGK making fun of one of the most defining rock bands of recent decades.
Matt Heafy of Orlando based heavy metal band Trivium tweeted:
I’d like to formally diss Machine Gun Kelly for “being 31 years old wearing a fucking 16 year old pop punk cosplay identity on a fucking stage”
Matt Heafy then explained more in his response to the Epic Games communication director, who was stunned by MGK mediocracy:
I never thought about him till he took a shot at Slipknot – who are a band who’s paved the way for bands like mine. Thousands of bands like mine. Squirt Gun is a clout chaser. And even though it’s all a PR stunt, a shot at SK needs an addressing. (But that cover sounds awful 😂)
MGK probably still cannot understand that rock brotherhood is different from the fluid hip hop scene. Or maybe he just does not understand this concept in general and just does what he knows – earns clout points by barking at the tallest tree.
Comedian Josh Pray tried to explain it to MGK in simple terms reminding that Kelly walked away from his beef with Eminem in one piece because Em did not bother to finish him:
If you could take the Earth and weigh it, it still wouldn’t be as heavy as Slipknot. Slipknot don’t have fans, they have a brotherhood… Eminem let you continue. Eminem could’ve buried you, homie. He could have stood over you and said a bunch of more Marshall Mathers type stuff. Nah, he let you. And now you wanna mess with this family? You crazy?
What would be the next endeavour for MGK when he gets chased out of the house of rock? Tap dancing?
