Machine Gun Kelly acquired his ass kicked in a feud with Eminem so unhealthy in 2018 that he switched from making rap music to pop punk. Kelly has since dipped a toe into nation music as nicely due to course he has, however nonetheless – a whole lot of what Kelly has been doing may be very guitar-centric. And in accordance with Polyphia guitarist Tim Henson in an interview with Guitar World, that is made guitar cool once more.
“I might say guitar music acquired cool! You realize, possibly we had just a little bit to do with that, possibly we did not. Round that point, Eminem did the factor with MGK, and sort of made him swap genres. After which MGK acquired a primary document with a guitar on the duvet, which is de facto cool. So shout out MGK for making guitar cool once more!
“Since then too, like, take into consideration all of the insane gamers which have come out, like Marcin, like RJ [Pasin]… there’s so many new insane guitar gamers. So I might say that it is actually cool. [laughs]”
Which one hand, positive – MGK is extraordinarily well-liked and over the course of the previous few years he is put out a whole lot of guitar-driven music. Then again, bands like Blink-182 have been doing precisely that sort of music (like, precisely that sort) and have been promoting out stadiums. After which there’s nation music, which sucks however man is that style large and guitar-focused.
So far as guitarists which can be impressing Henson in the intervening time, he is acquired one in thoughts: “Dude, there’s that man, Spiro [Dussias] – you already know what I am speaking about. I do not know the way to say his final identify. I simply acknowledge the Instagram deal with, however that man is fucking loopy. And there is positively a number of others which can be escaping me.
“However as we begin to guide these classes this yr, to usher in all of the unbelievable expertise that’s on the market, to vibe them out on the brand new music, I am positively going to be hitting up Spiro simply to see what sort of madness he can deliver. There’s a number of unbelievable stuff arising talent-wise within the guitar world proper now.”
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