Shaun Morgan congratulates Louder Than Life Crowd for Booing MGK.
Last week, the 2021 Louder Than Life Rock Festival took place at Louisville, Kentucky, where the rapper turned pop-funk artist Machine Gun Kelly was also among the performers. However, the Cleveland artist didn’t get the reception he expected, as he was booed & flipped off by the crowd during his set. The reaction from the crowd was in response to MGK taking shots at heavy metal band Slipknot, whom he called weird for wearing masks even at the age of 50.
Now Shaun Morgan, the frontman of rock band Seether, recently congratulated the Louder Than Life crowd for booing MGK. Morgan spoke to Loudwire and elaborated why he did that. “I congratulated the crowd for booing that prick off the stage,” recalled Morgan. “Here’s my thing — You were a rapper, you got rapped out of rapping because you got so owned by Eminem. Then you come to rock for example, and it’s more pop-punk than anything else as I consider it, but yeah, I just had to say something. I was proud of those people. I didn’t feel like you belong on a stage like that after one or two singles just because you’ve got a name and a fancy girlfriend and now you’re a big headliner at a rock festival. And especially not when you take on one of metal’s greatest singers and you think that you’re gonna get away with it.”
He continues, “I was very impressed by them and I had to thank them, and I had to let them know that they were doing God’s work.”
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After his show, Machine Gun Kelly denied that he got booed by the crowd, and said that media always lies about him. “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,” he wrote in a tweet.
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
A back-and-forth with Corey Taylor occurred shortly after Kelly’s Riot Fest statements regarding Slipknot. Kelly subsequently said that friction existed because Taylor had written a lyric for his “Tickets to My Downfall” album that was never utilized, and that Taylor was “angry.”
Taylor then said that he was not a fan of “airing private crap like a child” and that he was the one who turned them down because he didn’t think he was the perfect fit for what had been written for him. Taylor then posted screenshots of his conversations with Travis Barker, in which Kelly initially commended him.
