MGK has branded Yungblud a “silver spooned preachy wanker” and called him out on social media over his ticket prices.
It comes after the latter posted a video in which he talked about how “live music has become inaccessible,” as part of his push for cheaper tickets through events like BLUDFEST.
Commenting on the video in a now deleted post, MGK criticised Yungblud writing: “You cancelled a tour because you couldn’t sell tickets blamed it on mental health then got parazzi’d at Nobu the next day Pinocchio.”
He added: “And your actual tour tickets are still the same price as every other artist. Shut the fuck up you silver spooned preachy wanker.”
Yungblud has spoken previously about the pricing of tickets, saying he “100 per cent” agrees with the argument that prices have “got out of hand”.
He told the BBC in 2025: “This is just dumb. Just stupid. It does not represent real people. I cannot play a festival where it’s like £800 a ticket. How can you stand on stage, and that’s OK?”
He added that part of the reason he created BLUDFEST was to offer the change he wanted to see. “We wanted to come back and do 20 bands for £65, because that’s the way it should be. In this world, there is nothing you can’t achieve if you are doing it from a place of truth, and for the right reason,” he said.
Yungblud has yet to comment directly over MGK’s comments but a spokesperson for the musician told TMZ: “Dom has not commented directly as he is so busy focusing on his sold-out North American tour and finishing his next album. He genuinely hasn’t got time to engage in any of this but we wish MGK the very best.”
For years, MGK and Yungblud were friends, with their relationship dating back to 2019 when the latter appeared on ‘I Think I’m Okay’, a track from MGK’s album ‘Hotel Diablo’ that year. In 2020, MGK returned the favour, appearing on Yungblud’s ‘Acting Like That’.
They performed ‘I Think I’m Okay’ at Reading 2019, and NME sat them down together backstage to talk about their friendship. Watch the video from that day below, in which they talk about their first time working together, singing Oasis’ ‘Supersonic’ at karaoke and how Yungblud broke his hand on a night out together.
In 2020, MGK spoke to NME again, and said he reached out to Yungblud because “I was a fan of everything he does, including his attitude and his way of dressing. His raw voice is so good, and he has an immense love for rock ’n’ roll. Those energies gravitate towards each other.”
Describing their friendship as “free-spirited”, he continued: “It feels like a dope, across-the-pond thing, like: ‘You hold it down over there and I’ll hold it down over here.’ Together we can make some sort of union of rock stars. We’re like Elton John and Jimi Hendrix back in the day.”
But last month it appeared to sour after MGK’s recent single ‘Fix Ur Face’ appeared to include a sly diss at both Yungblud and The Osbournes.
Just hours after the track was released, however, fans began to speculate that the song might contain a barbed shot at MGK’s one-time friend and collaborator – a suggestion that MGK only helped encourage when he posted on X: “I see one particular line is going over your heads”.
The line in question appeared to be: “Mickey Mouse kids turned rockstars / Leaving private schools, tryna be outlaws”.
Yungblud attended the private day and boarding school Ackworth School in Yorkshire and later enrolled at the independent Arts Educational School in London, and he later appeared on the Disney show The Lodge, for which he recorded the song ‘Tell It Like It Is’.
Fans also identified another possible attack in the following lyric. “And all the oldheads tryna kill the vibe / But rock’s not dead as long as I’m alive,” MGK sang, and many took that to be a shot at the Osbournes, with whom Yungblud is close.
This could stem from a 2024 episode of The Osbournes podcast, which featured Yungblud as a guest. Kelly Osbourne made an offhand comment about MGK co-opting Yungblud’s use of pink and she and mother Sharon signalled that they were no fans of MGK. While Yungblud appeared somewhat uneasy at the comments, fans have pointed out that he also did not defend him at the time.
