Machine Gun Kelly coated Don Omar’s ‘Danza Kuduro’ and spoke Spanish to the group at Madrid’s Mad Cool Competition this week.
The pop-punk artist carried out at day one of many Spanish pageant on Thursday (July 6), the place he stunned followers with a canopy of the Puerto Rican reggaeton star’s 2010 hit.
“Spain, thanks a lot for welcoming me to your nation. I can really feel all of the love right here as we speak,” MGK advised the group in Spanish.
“In return, I’d prefer to sing a music in your language with all of you. Let’s go!”
Captioning a clip of the second on Instagram, he wrote “haters will say I switched genres once more”, referencing his leap from rap to punk-rock for his newest two albums, ‘Tickets To My Downfall’ (2020) and ‘Mainstream Sellout’ (2022).
@machinegunkelly haters will say i switched genres once more.
♬ authentic sound – the blonde don
Omar himself appeared to approve, commenting a ‘rock on’ and flame emoji.
NME‘s day one protection of Mad Cool Competition mirrored on MGK’s set during which he “stomped down from a burning setpiece to ship a pop-punk run of hits that have been simply as fiery”.
At one other current pageant, MGK fulfilled one in every of his followers’ most odd requests but – being punched within the face.
Whereas acting at Rock Werchter in Belgium, Kelly learn a fan’s signal that stated: “I simply got here from Mexico 4 u 2 punch me within the face”. The second was filmed and posted onto Machine Gun Kelly’s Instagram web page, jokingly captioned “making desires come true”.
Again in 2020, MGK advised NME about his change to pop-punk and rock in his Large Learn cowl interview, explaining: “I watched the whole web attempt to make a meme of me.”
“They have been like: ‘Haha! Take a look at the man on the desk believing in himself! I’ve been the man leaping up and down on the desk believing in myself for-fucking-ever. I’m not up there faucet dancing for some company label; I’m up there spreading my ardour and my perception within the music I’m taking part in.”
He added: “Additionally, fuck you to any of the motherfuckers on the web who tried to make a joke of what’s now the Primary fucking album.”
Again in Might, Machine Gun Kelly launched a brand new single referred to as ‘Stress’, marking a return to a rap sound.
He gave the observe its reside debut final month at London’s Royal Albert Corridor, the place he was additionally joined onstage by Halsey and James Arthur.
