Machine Gun Kelly introduced a significant hair change to the 2024 People’s Choice Country Awards!
On Thursday, Sept. 26, the singer-songwriter, 34, stepped out solo at Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry Home. And whereas many had been hoping for a pair fashion second from him and Megan Fox, the musician’s look didn’t disappoint.
MGK went full punk rokc in a black leather-based vest teamed with pleated high-waist trousers, a short-sleeve button-down that confirmed off his tattoo sleeves, skinny “LV” tie and two-two blonde and black hair look that was serving a touch of Cruella de Vil.
Kelly was announced as a 2024 PCCAs performer, together with Brad Paisley, earlier this week. The celebrities joined an already stacked lineup of performers, together with Kane Brown, Keith Urban, Kelsea Ballerini, Lady A, Miranda Lambert, Parker McCollum and The War and Treaty.
The musician’s look on the awards present comes as he crossed into nation by collaborating with Jelly Roll for their track “Lonely Road” — for which Fox starred in the music video — and releasing a cover of The Chicks’ “There’s Your Trouble.”
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Kelly’s solo look on the PCCAs comes after reports of bumpiness in their relationship earlier this yr. In March, a supply near the pair — who began dating in 2020 and announced their engagement in January 2022 — advised PEOPLE that “sooner or later they’re up, the subsequent they’re down.”
The identical supply additionally advised PEOPLE that the couple’s headline-making depth is “nonetheless there almost 4 years into their relationship, however that is not essentially ‘wholesome.’ ”
Although the pair has since made public appearances together, they haven’t stated a lot publicly in regards to the present standing of their relationship.
In March, nevertheless, Fox did say on the Call Her Daddy podcast that she knows she “will always be connected to [Kelly] somehow.”
After telling host Alex Cooper, “I haven’t got a touch upon the standing of the connection, per se,” she gave a extra broad assertion in regards to the pair’s connection.
“What I can say, that [he is] what I check with as being my twin soul, and there’ll all the time be a tether to him, it doesn’t matter what. I can not say for certain what the capability will probably be, however I’ll all the time be linked to him in some way,” Fox stated on the time. “Past that, I am not keen to elucidate.”
The 2024 PCCAs will air reside on Thursday, Sept. 26 at 8 p.m. ET/PT throughout NBC and Peacock from the Grand Ole Opry Home in Nashville.