Machine Gun Kelly is kiss, kissing his stage name goodbye.
The “Bloody Valentine” singer, whose birth name is Colson Baker, modified his skilled moniker to mgk greater than a decade after his musical debut.
As of Feb. 29, his artist profiles on Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal and YouTube read mgk to reflect the change. Likewise, his name on X—formerly generally known as Twitter—was switched to the initials MGK, though his @machinegunkelly handle remained the identical.
The name change comes greater than a yr after comedy act Chad and JT petitioned to have “machine gun” from the musician’s alias as to not “glorify machine guns.” As seen in a September 2022 YouTube video, the duo asked MGK to make the switch at a concert using a big sign, prompting him to ask the audience, “What do you think that?”
Though separate fan footage showed MGK—who shares the Machine Gun Kelly nickname with famed Prohibition era gangster George Kelly Barnes—shrugging off the request on the time, the 33-year-old seemingly modified his tune last November. While attending the 2023 GQ Men of the Yr event along with his fiancée Megan Fox, MGK asked attendees to call him by a recent name.