Tickets To My Downfall
| Machine Gun Kelly
Tickets To My Downfall
Tickets to My Downfall is the fifth studio album by American musician Machine Gun Kelly. A departure from his established rap sound, the album is a more guitar-driven pop punk album. It was released through Bad Boy and Interscope Records on September 25, 2020. -Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
The motor-mouthed rapper’s latest album reboots him as an heir to the early-’00s pop-punk canon.
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NME
rap devil proves that pop-punk ain’t dead.
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Kerrang!
Most of all, when it’s all fired off as one thing, it doesn’t crash and burn – it bounces off the walls like a rubber ball fired from a cannon. And it feels great when you get hit by it.
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The Soundboard
If this didn’t have his name attached, it would go nowhere, such is the deep lack of character, profiency or even charm on display here. In other words, it’s a Machine Gun Kelly album, only this time trying to use its new hat as a distraction.
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Ratings Game Music
I can honestly say that MGK sounds like he’s in his element on Tickets To My Downfall. I feel like he approaches every single song on the album like a fearless rockstar that doesn’t understand what boundaries are.
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Wall of Sound
Overall, it’s a fully enjoyable pop record for lazy pool days and casual beach drives that serves as a subtle reminder for what radio friendly pop music sounded like when we were growing up.
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Sputnik Music
If you're interested in hearing a mainstream rapper try something different or if you're a hardcore pop punk fan, then you might find something to enjoy on Tickets To My Downfall, but if you aren't already sold on MGK this will likely do nothing but make your opinion of him worse.
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Ghost Cult Magazine
Though TTMD is a change of pace from MGK’s typical style, it does not fully abandon his roots, highlighting a multitude of hip-hop guests and beats, party songs, and pop anthems. In fact, he has consistently cited various rock acts as influences, so it was only a matter of time until he fully submerged himself in the genre.
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Melodic Magazine
Tickets To My Downfall captures that raw energy and spirit from the whole early 2000s pop punk scene – the studded belts, the spiked hair, the guyliner… If you were into music from that time, and even if you are into the alt rock music of today, you will find at least one track on the album that speaks to you.
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No Ripcord
It’s genuinely one of the great songs of the year, but it’s also an important reminder to us all that we should be grateful for Downfall.
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Stereoboard
This is not a fun record, and in this commercially-focused mode pop-punk is as throwaway, and nominally fun, as it gets. If only Kelly could borrow a little enthusiasm from Halsey, whose guest spot on the brutally over-the-top Forget Me Too is a blast.
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The Young Folks
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. The former rapper turned literal rockstar is finally making the music that he wants to make.
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The Mic Magazine
Who knew that the best pop-punk album of the year would come from a rapper? Maxwell Jeffries takes a probe to the latest album from motor-mouthed rapper Machine Gun Kelly, which reboots him as an heir to the early 2000's pop-punk throne.
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The Musical Hype
Machine Gun Kelly successfully shifts from hip-hop to pop-punk on his fifth studio album, Tickets to My Downfall.
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Vinyl Chapters
It is evident that Tickets To My Downfall is a cry for help from Machine Gun Kelly. MGK’s raw talent has always been so present and his energy within his songs are flawless. Although this album is one of his best to date, it is sad to listen to it and think that although it may make us happy, it probably almost killed him making it.
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Bring The Noise UK
Tickets To My Downfall delivers on Machine Gun Kelly’s pop-punk hopes and dreams, deeply rooted from the early days of covering Blink songs on stage some nine years ago. Since then, the hip-hop rap star has blossomed into a genre defying alternative artist, hellbent on harnessing honest lyrics derived from years of disguised agony, and a soundscape that has naturally progressed into the pop-punk scene, with a collection of confessional tracks that has taken the form of the four-star worthy, fifth full-length Tickets To My Downfall.
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Whip Radio
MGK is injecting new life into pop-punk, and it’s nothing short of epic.
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Gig Goer
The quintessence of pop-punk, Tickets To My Downfall marks the latest reincarnation of the Rap Devil, proving that Machine Gun Kelly is the rockstar the world needs right now.
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Rock Sins
Tickets To My Downfall is a triumph of an album, that will make you see him in a new light. This is a fun, honest and at times surprisingly sweet album that will leave you with a giant grin on your face and an urge to revisit your lost youth.
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Euphoriazine
It’s the fact that MGK was able to confidently put out an album that proudly showcases his musical influences over the years. The whole album feels like it can be the soundtrack to a coming of age movie. If there was a way for Machine Gun Kelly to put out his thoughts and feelings, Tickets To My Downfall was the best way to do just that.
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Dead Press
With ‘Tickets To My Downfall’, Machine Gun Kelly manages to move away from one genre to the other seamlessly. With a solid track list and a fresh yet familiar take on the pop-punk, ‘Tickets To My Downfall’ is arguably the most consistent record of Kelly‘s career.
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Her Campus
Overall, this album is a masterpiece and I love it so much. I’m so proud of Colson and how far he has come in his musical journey. A few of these songs really touched my heart, while others make me want to jump up and down and are fun to sing at the top of my lungs. I can’t wait to see what he does next.
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Nerve Media
Overall, Tickets To My Downfall is an experimental project that transforms MGK into the rock star his was destined to be. Blending rap beats and pop punk energy effortlessly together, MGK and Travis Barker prove a musical force to be reckoned, crafting a album full of back to back bangers you’ll struggle to get out of you head.
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Digital Journal
Overall, Tickets To My Downfall is solid from start to finish. It encompasses elements of punk-pop, rock, and alternative music. This new album by Machine Gun Kelly is highly eclectic and in these trying times, it is a true musical treat.
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Rolling Stone
Machine Gun Kelly Reinvents Himself as a Pop-Punk Whiner – and it Works.
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Republic World
Unlike Machine Gun Kelly’s rampant rise lyrics in the early 2000s, Tickets to My Downfall is everything ‘aware & meaningful’.
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Nerds and Beyond
Kelly has created one of the best recent pop-punk albums in recent years. It’s unfortunate the album has arrived in a time where live music is delayed for the foreseeable future, because every song should be played in an arena. You’ll want to dig out your old Warped Tour t-shirts and apply your black eyeliner, preparing to scream-sing your way through every track.
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