NEED TO KNOW
- Machine Gun Kelly confirmed that Bob Dylan narrated the trailer for his upcoming album, Lost Americana
- Regarding their linkup, MGK said that “something’s going on in the stars where, like, good things keep happening,”
- Lost Americana, out on Aug. 8, is available for preorder
Machine Gun Kelly and Bob Dylan did indeed team up for the Lost Americana trailer.
During his Monday, Aug. 4, appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, MGK, 35, confirmed that the Nobel Prize winner narrated the trailer for his upcoming album, which featured a vintage montage of neon lights, behind-the-scenes footage and motorcycles.
When asked by Fallon, 50, if MGK was friends with Dylan, 84, he did his best Dylan impression, responding: “Well, to be honest, I don’t want to mess my friendship up.”
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“To be honest, I have no idea how he even knows who I am to this day,” the father-of-two continued in Dylan’s nasally voice. “And I’m pretty sure that if I say the wrong thing I’ll mess it all up, so I’ll just shut up and accept whatever Bob Dylan throws my way.”
How their linkup came to be still baffles MGK. “Something’s going on in the stars where, like, good things keep happening… I don’t know how it keeps happening,” he said.
The “Emo Girl” singer revealed that working with Dylan came at a time when he was “questioning” if he was doing the right thing in terms of the music he’s making. “It felt pure to me, but I felt misunderstood from the outside,” he added.
“Then Bob Dylan, who’s the king of just getting all the outside noise out and trusting what’s within stamps… I don’t know, I feel like he’s just in on some giant cosmic joke.”
Fallon said that Dylan has “good taste” in choosing to collaborate with MGK.
MGK rounded out his late-night appearance with a medley of songs from Lost Americana, which had its trailer debut in June.
“Lost Americana is a personal excavation of the American Dream. A journey to find what’s been lost,” Dylan begins in the clip.
“This album is a love letter for those who seek to rediscover the dreamers, the jesters, the defiant. It’s a sonic map of forgotten places, a tribute to the spirit of reinvention and a quest to reclaim the essence of American freedom.”
“From the glow of neon diners to the rumble of the motorcycles, this is music that celebrates the beauty found in the in-between spaces,” continued Dylan. “Where the past is reimagined, and the future is forged on your own terms.”
MGK and the “Like a Rolling Stone” singer connected online earlier in 2025 when Dylan shared a video of the “My Ex’s Best Friend” singer performing in a record store from 2016.
“wtf,” MGK wrote on his Instagram Stories, sharing a screenshot of Dylan’s post. “this was not on my 2025 bingo card.”
“We’re all still trying to figure out what universal spirit guide angels are up there working, and pulling whatever strings to make these fantastically unpredictable occurrences happen. Because I have no idea — there isn’t one inkling of a hint as to how that happened, or why it happened,” MGK told PEOPLE earlier this month about the Dylan collab.
“I think that if I was to guess, maybe in the ethos, whether it was through a dream, or however it is that he found this, maybe there is some understood commonality.”
Per a press release, Lost Americana is an “emotionally honest new chapter that reflects on his past with help from longtime collaborators and friends SlimXX, BazeXX and Nick Long.”
Lost Americana comes out on Friday, Aug. 8, and is available for preorder now.
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