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01.02.2022 / 01:36
Machine Gun Kelly Changes Upcoming Album Title After Tattooing Its Original Name on Arm
Ethan Shanfeld In August, Machine Gun Kelly and Travis Barker got matching arm tattoos that read “Born With Horns,” the title of Kelly’s upcoming album. But in a TikTok video posted Monday, Kelly confessed to Barker, the album’s executive producer, that he’s changing the LP’s title to “Mainstream Sellout.”Kelly prefaces the video by asking Barker, “We’re friends no matter what, right?” He then says, “Remember when we got the new album name tattooed on our arms?” Before Kelly can even confess the new title, Barker buckles over in laugher and says, “You changed it…”In October, Kelly told Variety that his next album, expected some time this year, will be “more guitar-heavy” than 2020’s “Tickets to My Downfall,” which signaled the artist’s full-fledged pivot to pop-punk.