Internet Slams Machine Gun Kelly’s Controversial New Guitar

Machine Gun Kelly has partnered with Schecter Guitars for a brand new signature mannequin, and the web is not having it. People throughout are slamming the musician for the instrument’s seemingly controversial design, and he is responded to the commotion on social media.

The guitar is, unsurprisingly, formed like an oblong razor blade, and comes within the end metallic silver. Originally listed for $2,169, the guitar can now be bought for $1,499 on Schecter’s web site. You can see photographs of it for your self under.

Its form has sparked a plethora of responses from folks on-line, lots of which argue that it “glorifies self harm.”

A few accounts on X shared promo images of the platform just a few days in the past, together with the State of the Scene Podcast account and METALBIRB, who wrote, “I know MGK sucks and people don’t like him… but what’s up with the guitar being a razor? It’s almost like it’s glorying self-harm? Schecter man… the scene has problems with mental health and making tools that can cause self-harm look ‘cool’ is actually super lame. Also the guitar is hideous, but that’s just obvious.”

Kelly responded to the submit, writing, “You show your lack of depth by taking art at face value. This has nothing to do with any of the subject matter you just presented. So no my friend, you suck.”

A few musicians partook within the dialogue as properly. Static Dress’ Olli Appleyard quoted State of the Scene’s submit in regards to the guitar and declared, “I fucking hate living on this planet.” Kelly replied, “Words from a jealous musician who never made it.”

“[Don’t worry] bro just continue to push horrific themes to literal children,” Appleyard wrote again.

“And you can continue to show them how to be shallow minded and not look at art with any depth. I’ve done my job as an artist by creating a conversation, you’ve done yours as an idiot by not having the capacity to understand my message,” Kelly retaliated.

The musician wrote a submit addressing the controversy on X yesterday (Jan. 9), wherein he asserted, “I’ll never explain my art, because true art is conversational and always up for interpretation, but I will say, most of you constantly interpret it wrong. and then blame me for your version of what you think my art is. Ultimately I’m sad at how people perceive me in general. Peace.”

Falling in Reverse frontman Ronnie Radke even joined in on the dialogue, quoting METALBIRB’s submit and stating, “My guy I’m not jumping on any sides here but come on, have we gotten so lost we are now complaining about a razor blade guitar cuz it might trigger people to self harm? But you turn around and give my video of me murdering people with guns a thumbs up? I like you bro, Let the man live.”

Radke adopted up the submit just a few hours later that stated, “My timeline is just a bunch of 15 passenger van bands complaining about MGK. Makes me realize so much.”

Read the aforementioned exchanges on X, in addition to another reactions, under.

As one consumer identified, the razor blade imagery is not new to rock and metallic. Judas Priest featured one on the quilt of their profitable 1980 album British Steel, which was printed on lots of the band’s merchandise albums. And in keeping with Rob Halford, the designer of the quilt, Polish artist Roslaw Szaybo, initially needed to point out blood dripping on the fingers holding the blade.

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“It played on the punk reference with the way that the punk movement had the razor blades and safety pins and stuff. We played on that and also played with the actual razor blade being part of the steel manufacturing industry, albeit a very small one. It was important. Originally, he had all the blood pouring off the fingers,” the frontman instructed Billboard.

“We told him, ‘We don’t want to do that. We want to show you that metal is so strong we don’t bleed.'”