Machine Gun Kelly Appears To Question Whether Man Ever Landed On The Moon In AMAs Speech

One of the astir well-known conspiracy theories for the past 50 years has been whether the satellite landing was faked, and Machine Gun Kelly appears to deliberation that there’s thing to it. The “Emo Girl” singer, 32, made notation to the fashionable conspiracy portion making an analogy arsenic helium won the grant for Favorite Rock Artist astatine the American Music Awards connected Sunday, November 20.

As MGK, whose existent sanction is Colson Baker, accepted the awards, helium was thankful to his fans, but besides called retired stone fans and artists who person written him off. “Thank you to the fans who got maine here, and I emotion you,” helium said. “There person been immoderate radical successful the stone assemblage who person called maine a tourist, but they’re wrong. I’m a rocket man.”

As the Tickets to My Downfall vocalist continued, helium turned his attraction to abstraction exploration. “We weren’t calved connected the moon, but we looked astatine it. We were curious, and past we went there, supposedly,” helium said, seemingly showing that helium had immoderate doubts. “These past 2 stone albums were maine going to the moon, but I’m not done exploring the beingness yet, and I americium each genres. I’ll spot you connected Mars.”

MGK accepts his AMA connected stage. (Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP/Shutterstock)

Conspiracies astir the satellite and Apollo 11 landing person existed for decades, with aboriginal theories dating backmost to the 1976 book We Never Went to the Moon: America’s Thirty Billion Dollar Swindle by Bill Kaysing. There person been a wide assortment of theories proposing antithetic motives, including the Space Race against Russia, accrued backing for NASA, and the Vietnam War. Despite theories continuing to garner attraction for decades, they person been wide discredited.

While it seems that MGK whitethorn person spent immoderate clip speechmaking up connected the theories, helium did look much excited astir the adjacent signifier of his vocation aft a milestone year successful his career. The rocker dropped Mainstream Sellout back successful March, and it’s been 1 of the astir fashionable stone records of the year, adjacent getting nominated for Best Rock Album astatine the Grammys. The grounds besides sent MGK connected a worldwide tour. 

MGK dressed successful a purple suit with spikes covering it for the grant show. (Chelsea Lauren/Shutterstock)

Aside from the caller album, MGK besides got engaged to his woman of 2 years Megan Fox way backmost successful January. Along with the enactment for Mainstream Sellout, MGK has been successful the midst of planning his wedding to the Transformers actress, 36. A root adjacent to the brace revealed to HollywoodLife exclusively that portion they were putting readying connected the backmost burner until MGK’s circuit wrapped up, they had suggested something much spur of the moment. “They bash some gag astir moving disconnected to Vegas and eloping truthful that’s ever a possibility, nary 1 would beryllium excessively shocked,” the insider said.