Flesh Muppeteer (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
duinemerwen) wrote2023-02-23 12:52 am
duinemerwen) wrote2023-02-23 12:52 am
machine gun kelly - my ex's best friend
As per prompt 30 of the 30-day music meme (more like the 300-day music meme...) this is another song that reminds me of myself for two reasons. The first of which because MGK is a total forking mess in the song. He knows he's making the wrong decision, that nothing good is going to happen. There's a little gasp in the instrumental right at the 0:30 mark in the prechorus when he realizes, oh shit, they're going home. And then by the time they hit the elevator at 0:38, it's too late, it's inevitable that something is going to happen, and that moment is just so delicious that the drums kick in to mark the beat of his stupid traitorous heart, and then there's nothing to be done but to ride that the momentum headlong into the chorus.
The chorus is almost perfunctory compared to the prechorus - but I think that's about right too, isn't it? Sometimes the buildup, the knowledge that you are making the bad decision is sweeter than the reward itself. This leads into blackbear's verse, which is the spare and measured justification to MGK's ex that she has no fuckin business getting mad at MGK. Yet despite the yowl blackbear is able to summon up, it's ultimately uncathartic and barely casts a pall over the second iteration of the chorus.
But here's the thing. You can only do a bad thing so many time before it stops feeling sweet. And that's why I think the outro is perfect. It's a hollow, distorted version of the first verse. It's like a hangover. All the mystery and the excitement is gone and dead in the cold light of day.
This song is perfect.
Oh, and the second reason it also reminds me of myself? He's oversharing. SO MUCH. What is even the meaning of dignity?? I have a whole playlist on spotify about bad decisions and this one is right at the top.