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During a visit on The Garza Podcast, which is hosted by Suicide Silence guitarist Chris Garza, Machine Gun Kelly said that a line in his Fred Durst collaboration “FIX UR FACE” specifically targets Yungblud and explained the loyalty breach that caused it, as per MetalInjection. Following the song’s release, MGK hinted that “one particular line going over your heads,” which caused listeners to concentrate on the “Mickey Mouse” allusion. Yungblud declined to defend MGK after Kelly and Sharon Osbourne made disparaging remarks about him during a 2024 episode of The Osbournes podcast, which sparked speculation.
The song goes: Mickey Mouse kids turned rockstars / Leaving private schools, tryna be outlaws.
The song is three minutes of lines about different things, but yeah, the specific line, loyalty is really the only thing that matters. When I open my heart, that means I’m vulnerable, and I let you in. And so when someone’s given an opportunity to defend their friend, and they don’t, then that breaks my heart. It shatters me. Be my friend in public the same way that you are in private. You know, but it’s an angry line in an angry song. A line is a line, and I don’t really like to describe art.
That shit hurt me, but that is that. But, you know, [he’s] super, super talented and all that, but what I care about outside of everything is like when the music’s over, what do you stand for and what do you stand on? And that principle of loyalty, the way that it was done to me, I wouldn’t have done that. And I’ve watched a lot of my peers stand with me and next to me, and they never moved with envy. To me, that was just a moment of seeing something and being like, ‘Damn. That hurts.’
I forgive man. Like, I forgive like… I forgive.
The allusion to “Mickey Mouse” alludes to Yungblud‘s pre-music background: he attended the exclusive boarding school Ackworth School before enrolling at the Arts Educational School in London. He left the school in 2015 after receiving an ADHD diagnosis and beginning to act out during class. He recorded “Tell It Like It Is” for the soundtrack of the Disney drama The Lodge during that time. The two musicians first collaborated with Travis Barker, the drummer for Blink-182, in 2019. Barker and Yungblud collaborated on “I Think I’m Okay,” a song from MGK‘s “Hotel Diablo”. The following year, MGK did the same with “Acting Like That” from Yungblud‘s “Weird!”, which also included Barker.
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