
iann dior has shared new single 'thought it was', featuring Machine Gun Kelly and Travis Barker
It's the latest taster of Dior's forthcoming album 'On To Better Things', set to arrive on Friday (20th January)
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Machine Gun Kelly confronts self-destruction with unflinching directness on 'Taurus', a track built around Naomi Wild's stark, accusatory refrain. The song moves between Kelly's internal monologue and Wild's voice, each verse peeling back another layer of crisis: suicidal ideation, parental trauma, chemical dependence, the corrosive gap between public success and private collapse. The production is sparse enough to let the words land without mercy. Kelly's delivery shifts from confessional to defiant. He moves through images of self-harm, psychiatric intervention, and competitive self-sabotage with the precision of someone who has lived inside these thoughts long enough to map them. The chorus pivots outward, addressing an antagonist real or imagined, but the song's true subject is the voice in his own head. By the final verse, he has named it directly: the pressure of fame, the bankruptcy of happiness against unlimited resources, the anomaly of being born into a life that does not fit. It is a portrait of someone still fighting, still here, still talking.
"Taurus" is a track by mgk, from the album Taurus [From The Motion Picture Taurus], released 23rd November 2022. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 3 articles about mgk.
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