MGK says he’s “got a story” for every track on his just-released new album Lost Americana, including one about a fan whose decidedly direct question about his relationship with Megan Fox ultimately inspired a whole song.
Speaking with Jon Caramanica and Joe Coscarelli on the New York Times’ Popcast, the 2025 VMAs nominee revealed that fans have some shrewd urging from frequent collaborator Travis Barker to thank for the existence of “Sweet Coraline.” As he recalled, what would later be chronicled in the track’s opening lines started with him having a cigarette in New York City.
“It was freezing cold and this girl runs across the street and she’s in this baby t-shirt,” he said, as seen below. “She’s clearly from Ireland or something and she’s like, ‘Oh my god, are you Machine Gun Kelly?’ and usually I’m always like, ‘No.’ Because it entertains me. But she was clearly freezing and I was like, ‘Yeah.’ And she wasn’t from here so I was like, maybe this will really make her trip exciting.”
The fan went on to say that she was with friends in a bar across the street, with all of them debating whether it was indeed mgk they were seeing. She then wondered if she could ask him a question, to which he obliged.
“I was like, ‘Yeah, anything you want,’ and she goes, ‘How did you fumble Megan Fox?’” mgk said. “I said, goddamn!”
In the song’s opening verse, mgk mentions having “saved you from a taxi in the rain.” This too was inspired by the same fan encounter, he noted, joking that he and his friends may have “just been like, fuck it” if she hadn’t apologized. When he later told Barker and others what happened, the blink-182 drummer and producer encouraged him to turn the moment into a song.
In the same interview, mgk mentions having spent “the whole month of December and late November” in rehab, only to exit to a flood of tabloid reports about the status of his and Megan’s relationship. Rehab is also mentioned on the new album itself, including on the song “Treading Water.” While Megan isn’t directly named in the track, it’s clear he’s looking back on a relationship while admitting fault, complete with an apparent nod to his and Megan’s daughter, born this year.
“The beast killed the beauty, the last petal fell from the rose
And I loved you truly, that’s why it’s hard to let it go
I broke this home, but I’ll change for our daughter, so she’s not alone”
Meanwhile, Megan is credited as a composer on album closer “Orpheus.”
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