The most popular quote-tweet smirked: “When you’re 10 this is what you imagine being 16 will be like”.įor all the online mockery, the pop-punk idea was no half-baked daydream, even though Baker was then four albums into his rap career. Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker proudly posted a four-second video to Twitter, captioning it, “And just like that will never be the same”, but it was hard to find anyone else on social media who shared his enthusiasm.
Back in January, a few months before he turned 30, the rapper known as Machine Gun Kelly went to a meeting at his label to make a surprise announcement: he was making a pop-punk record.įaced with “genuine confusion” – as he puts it – from label execs in the room, Baker leaped onto the conference table and jumped around as his music played.
Colson Baker knows how it feels to be the internet’s punchline.
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