Lonely Fight... now Rock Man... are these just loosies/bonus tracks or is he planning something?

this reminds me a bit of Sting

There was rumors he was dropping an ep this fall, along with the rest of the live videos on YouTube. Might be true

a live album would be dope too tbh

These feel like loosies from the two star sessions

yea true, im sure the next project will be a little more different sounding

HES DROPPING STARTED A WAR ???

the f***in eagle he was spamming at the show actually made the cut

Who cares about mainstream lol

Yh I feel this heavy. A lot of the older stuff sounded more DIY (which is fine and which I love tbh) but he’s taking it up a level in so many aspects on this newest one

HOW COME

mk.gee himself perhaps, for starters. some excerpts from his NY Times interview. nytimes.com/2024/09/04/arts/music/mkgee-two-star-the-dream-police.html'

“Nobody in alternative music is allowed to be confident,” Gordon explained, adding curses for emphasis, “and be like, No, this is the best thing in the world. If you make alternative music, you’re supposed to do this, and if you make pop music, you’re supposed to be like this.”

“This should be pop music,” he went on. “In my head, it feels like pop music” — or at least, as a friend told him early on, in something of a dig, “like you’re trying to remember what pop music sounds like.” “The goal is the same,” Gordon said. “And there’s no reason I should be asking for anything less because I’m not a clown moving how somebody would move in pop music.”

His hope, typically grandiose but also based in action and creation, is to “reinvent” the instrument “and what it means — maybe subconsciously,” along with what pop can be. The surreal aspect of where he’s found himself is that now, with the world opening up to Mk.gee, those possibilities are nearly in reach.

Along with chipping away at new music of his own, Gordon has been writing and recording with Bieber, the onetime teen heartthrob now at a creative crossroads. “He’s searching,” said Gordon, an eager accomplice.

“Anything that comes out of his mouth: That’s pop music,” he added. “You can really do pretty wild stuff behind that, just because it represents something.”

It’s not pop, exactly, that Mk.gee is chasing, but “the promise of pop music” — universality as the byproduct of something great.

“Experimentalism has no meaning unless it’s done on the grandest scale,” he said. “I just don’t want to join somebody else’s citadel. I want to build my own thing, my own castle with my friends, because that’s what’s needed. And if people want to come, they can come.”

Just wondering because someone in another thread said a unique artist is what “everyone craves” in hiphop right now so I thought if Mkgee was black could he blow up by being considered more adjacent to hiphop lol

Did you guys think he sounded like Frank Ocean at first or was that just me when I 1st came across him on New Low

I get more a mix of jai paul, prince and a bunch of older pop/rock bands turned into something of its own

if the stuff he did with Bieber comes out maybe

Mkgee x JB gon be so crazy bro

ngl I always think Bruce Springsteen for a myriad of reasons s/o nj

which is probably why he’s hitting so hard

Broooooo!!!!! Been waiting on this song

lets gooooo!!!!

RYLEEEEE

What is really mainstream at this point tbh everything is niche until it isn’t

finally

to release Lonely Flight & Rockman back to back is unfair. I feel bad for artists rn