Machine Gun Kelly Booed & flipped off at Lounder Than Life 2021 Festival.
The annual Louder Than Life Rock Festival is taking place at Louisville, Kentucky, for a four-day 2021 event, from 23-26 Sep. Last night’s set includes artists rock artists like Asking Alexandria, Ice Nine Kills, Butcher Babies, Volbeat, Falling In Reverse, and more. Cleveland’s Machine Gun Kelly, who completed transitioned from a rapper to a pop-punk artist, was also performed last night but didn’t get the reception he expected.
When Machine Gun kicked off his set, the crowd started booing the “Tickets To My Downfall” artist, along with showing middle fingers. The concert clips also show MGK trying to fight with a fan from the crowd.
During the performance of Louder Than Life, the artist threatened an audience member with a random Star Wars lightsaber that was onstage. Things even became physical. While the singer was singing, an anonymous man in the audience pushed him. Security was called in, but not before MGK appeared to strike the man in the face.
Netizens believe that the unwanted reception from the crowd is in response to MGK’s recent comments about heavy metal band Slipknot, whom he dissed at Riot Fest in Chicago earlier this week. “Hey, you all know what I’m really happy that I’m not doing? Being 50-years-old, wearing a f***in weird mask on a fu**in stage,” Kelly said on the stage. After the show, Machine Gun also took to Twitter where he revealed that Corey Taylor did a verse for the “Tickets To My Downfall” album but it was dropped from the final cut as it was “f**king terrible.”
Corey Taylor also retaliates as he shared screenshots of his conversation with Travis Barker, in which MGK was seemingly praising verse from Slipknot frontman. Later, he disputed the notion that he was solely receiving negative feedback from the festival attendees. “I don’t know why the media lies in their narrative against me all the time,” he wrote, “but all I saw at the festival was 20,000 amazing fans chanting every word and 20 angry ones.”
i don’t know why the media lies in their narrative against me all the time but all i saw was 20,000 amazing fans at the festival singing every word and 20 angry ones. https://t.co/hcjJ3LCfKU
— blonde don (@machinegunkelly) September 26, 2021
