Not 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.
While 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.
The 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.
Clearly, this is the work of a guy who’s found a fresh lease on life by inserting himself inside a new musical tradition.
Thematically, 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.
Despite going for a style that many thought wouldn’t find its footing again in the industry, Kelly and Barker construct a design that a lot fans my age would probably enjoy considering the era it’s borne from.
Despite 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.
Wow that was a rough listen.
MGK is a pretty awful person, and a complete moron. He must have just struck a chord with the public through his sheer lack of ability to write a song that isn’t the most basic, bare minimum shit. These songs have “variety” but I didn’t feel like I was listening to anything new with each passing moronic headache of a track.
Seriously this guy should genuinely chill with the drugs, because they have turned his brain into a potato. The ... read more
Gaslight your Significant Other Core.
Favorite Jams: I mean....I guess...uh...my dick?
Lest Favorite: The Inturludes, Forget Me Too, All I Know
Some of this is okay, there's like 3 good songs, and a bunch of terrible insulting emo shit
Fav track: lonely (87%)
Least fav: kevin and barracuda (5%)
ickets To My Downfall blows hard. All the singing in this album flops, some choruses are just straight up bad, making a fucking Facetime conversation a whole god damn interlude to another mediocre ass song was incredibly wild, and despite "play this when i'm gone" nearly tearing me up because I read what the song meant and it was pretty touching, he fucked that song up with a really shitty annoying outro.
1 | title track 2:45 | 45 |
2 | kiss kiss 2:18 | 43 |
3 | drunk face 2:23 | 39 |
4 | bloody valentine 3:25 | 52 |
5 | forget me too 2:51 with Halsey | 54 |
6 | all I know 2:09 feat. Trippie Redd | 37 |
7 | lonely 3:10 | 42 |
8 | WWIII 0:59 | 32 |
9 | kevin and barracuda 1:23 | 17 |
10 | concert for aliens 2:40 | 44 |
11 | my ex's best friend 2:19 with blackbear | 46 |
12 | jawbreaker 1:57 | 34 |
13 | nothing inside 2:52 feat. iann dior | 36 |
14 | banyan tree 1:31 | 25 |
15 | play this when i'm gone 3:22 | 39 |
#8 | / | The Ringer |
#9 | / | Kerrang! |
#13 | / | Punktastic |
#19 | / | Billboard |
/ | Alternative Press |