MGK, Travis Barker, YUNGBLUD video hits 1 million views in under a day
In less than 24 hours, the video for “I Think I’m Okay” by Machine Gun Kelly with Travis Barker and YUNGBLUD has reached a million views on YouTube.
The video was posted on Thursday after the song dropped earlier this month.
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A few weeks ago, MGK began filming a video for an unreleased track. Footage and photos surfaced from the set, confirming a previously speculated collab with the blink-182 drummer and YUNGBLUD.
The rapper teamed up with Zane Lowe on Beats 1 to premiere the track, and it wasn’t long before the teasing of the official music video began.
YUNGBLUD took to Facebook to share a snippet of the Machine Gun Kelly video, revealing it would be making its debut on Thursday.
Then, we finally got to see it, and apparently so did a lot of other people. As of press time, the MGK video is No. 10 on the trending page for the platform. According to the @chartdata Twitter account, yesterday the video was No. 1 trending video on YouTube in the U.S.
.@machinegunkelly, @yungblud and @travisbarker‘s “I Think I’m OKAY” is now the #1 trending music video on YouTube US.
— chart data (@chartdata) June 14, 2019
You can watch the video for yourself below, and we can wait and see how long it takes for it to get another million views.
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Machine Gun Kelly chatted with Lowe ahead of the song’s release, explaining he was “scared to even bring [Barker] the song ’cause [he] was like, ‘Maybe he’s gonna think it’s too blink-182.’”
But he explained Barker loved how they put their own twist on it, which ended up coming together more quickly than they all imagined.
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“Fun fact about this song is that YUNGBLUD came into my studio 15 minutes before I needed to go to Travis’ house because we had a session planned,” MGK tells Lowe. “I was like, ‘Dude, I have this crazy song idea. I just need you to do something but I don’t have any time [because] I have to go to Travis’ house [and] I can’t waste his time. You just gotta get in there and do something.’
“He went in there and freestyled his whole verse and just left my house all within 10 minutes. I called him back 30 minutes later, and I’m like, ‘Dude, Travis Barker’s putting drums on the song right now.”
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MGK opened up about how Hotel Diablo is “[the] the album [he] always wanted to put out because there’s actually some fun on it.”
Machine Gun Kelly kicked off his Hotel Diablo this month, which includes the recently revealed EST Fest lineup. Tickets are on sale now with dates available below.
Machine Gun Kelly dates:
06/14 — Kansas City, MO @ Arvest Bank Theater at The Midland
06/15 — Dallas, TX @ South Side Ballroom
06/16 — Houston, TX @ Revention Music Center
06/18 — Phoenix, AZ @ The Van Buren
06/19 — Anaheim, CA @ City National Grove of Anaheim
06/21 — Heber City, UT @ Bonanza Campout*
06/22 — Denver, CO @ Fillmore Auditorium
06/24 — Boise, ID @ Knitting Factory Concert House
06/25 — Seattle, WA @ Showbox SoDo
06/26 — Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom
06/28 — San Francisco, CA @ The Warfield
06/29 — Las Vegas, NV @ Pearl Concert Theater at Palms Casino Resort
06/30 — Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern
08/02 — Butler, OH @ EST Fest*
08/03 — Butler, OH @ EST Fest*
08/09 — TBA
08/11 — TBA
08/13 — TBA
08/16 — Osaka, JP @ Summer Sonic*
08/17 — Tokyo, JP @ Summer Sonic*
08/23 — Leeds, UK @ Leeds Festival*
08/25 — Reading, UK @ Reading Festival*
08/26 — Glasgow, UK @ SWG3
08/27 — Manchester, UK @ O2 Ritz
08/28 — Bristol, UK @ SWX
08/30 — Birmingham, UK @ O2 Institute
08/31 — London, UK @ Electric Ballroom
09/01 — Paris, FR
09/03 — Brussels, BE
09/04 — Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso Grote Zaal
09/05 — Cologne, DE
09/07 — Zurich, CH
09/08 — Milan, IT
09/09 — Prague, CZ @ Forum Karlin
09/11 — Warsaw, PL
09/12 — Berlin, DE
09/13 — Hamburg, DE
09/15 — Copenhagen, DK @ Musikkens Hus, Store Vega
09/16 — Oslo, NO @ Sentrum Scene
09/17 — Stockholm, SE @ Fyrehuset
09/19 — Helsinki, FI
09/21 — St. Petersburg, RU
09/22 — Moscow, RU
*festival date
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