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Machine Gun Kelly on That Controversial Razor Blade Guitar: ‘I Will Never Explain My Art’

Machine Gun Kelly said people were misinterpreting his intent with his new signature guitar, which is shaped like a razor blade.

Most of them look like normal guitars, including a pink one similar to the one featured on the cover of MGK’s 2020 album, Tickets to My Downfall. The “Title Track” line in question appears in the pre-chorus and is repeated multiple times throughout the song: “I use a razor to take off the edge, ‘Jump off the ledge,’ they said.’” One could certainly read that lyric as about self-harm, though perhaps MGK’s qualification that the guitar’s design was also an ode to “all the crazy times” he had in his 20s, means it’s about using a razor blade to cut other things like, hair or, well, uh, drugs. Based on MGK’s response to the wave of criticism that followed the release of the guitar, we may never know the full depths of his intent and inspiration.

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