MGK has covered Gorillaz’ ‘Feel Good Inc’. Listen to his version below.
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The rapper-turned-rockstar appeared in the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge yesterday (October 7), where he performed his take on the 2005 hit.
“This was peak childhood for me, sitting in my room watching this music video,” he said of his decision to play the track. “This music video really changed my life. It was watching this and Studio Ghibli movies were like peak imagination, man.
“Imagination is really the only reason why I’ve got this far, and my career has been relevant this long,” he continued. “Keeping the innocence of creativity and not letting the outside opinions affect me.”
As well as the cover, he also performed a live rendition of his latest single ‘vampire diaries’. Watch both below.
Elsewhere during his Radio 1 appearance, MGK said he was “on this trajectory of wanting to be a stadium act”, citing Oasis as inspirations after seeing them at their huge Wembley shows.
“I’ve been an Oasis diehard since I first heard them 20 years ago – before I was 10 years old,” he told Ricky, Melvin and Charlie. “Zero production, just a great rock band playing great rock music. It was amazing.”
He went on to praise Liam Gallagher, saying he “just had the swag”. MGK added that although he had watched Liam perform at Reading & Leeds years ago touring a solo record “which I liked”, it wasn’t the same “when it was him and his brother”.
MGK has previously mentioned his love of Oasis to NME in our cover story from 2020. He called the Gallagher brothers “proper rock stars” and revealed that he had framed cartoons of the pair in his bedroom. He and Yungblud also covered ‘Champagne Supernova’ from their houses during the pandemic, and the pair recalled their ‘Supersonic’ karaoke night to NME at Reading Festival (watch the interview below).
Elsewhere, MGK announced his massive ‘Lost Americana tour’ of North America, UK, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, set to kick off this November.
The musician will take a number of acts to support him throughout the tour including Wiz Khalifa, Julia Wolf, honestav, Beauty School Dropout, DE’WAYNE, Mod Sun, and Emo Night – see all dates here. You can also visit here for UK tickets, here for US and European tickets, and here for tickets to Australia and New Zealand shows.
He will tour his album ‘Lost Americana’, which saw MGK team up with Bob Dylan to help promote his new LP. He later joked that he had “no idea” how he secured the folk legend to narrate the teaser video, adding that it came out of “pure desperation” and him “just knocking on [Dylan’s] door relentlessly, not going away”.
In other news, MGK will mark the fifth anniversary of ‘Tickets To My Downfall’ with “five unreleased songs from that era”.
