Source: Casey McPerry / Billboard Magazine
After the tragic attacks in Paris last month, in which 89 people were killed at a music venue, artists have cancelled or postponed their shows in Europe and France.
The city of Paris is trying to recover and revamp its live music community, though artists such as Prince, Foo Fighters and more have moved their shows during to the recent terrorist attacks.
This Sunday, Cleveland rapper Machine Gun Kelly performed at a venue in Paris and made himself one of the first American artists to perform following the aftermath.
Machine Gun Kelly did an interview with Billboard about the feelings he felt before his performance at the Parisian club and why he chose to take the stage anyway.
He talks about a special moment with the crowd after playing his song “A Little More” where they just started singing their French national anthem. “Like, the whole crowd, singing the loudest I’d heard them all night. It was so appropriate with the song selection and everything that song is about…it was one of those moments when I put my glass in the air and we had a toast and a moment of silence.”
Machine Gun Kelly went on to discuss his hesitation before performing in Paris. He says he did have a feeling of hesitation, “But as a voice of the young people who were also victims of that attack, and the victims of a lot of things going on with how society is treating our generation, I just believed it was kind of like what we made music for in the first place, which was to spark change or inspire or create an escape.”
Read the full interview via Billboard HERE.
