Bad Things

## Music Video

"**Bad Things**" (originally titled "*It's Complicated*") is a song by hip-hop artist Machine Gun Kelly featuring Camila Cabello, and the lead single from his album, *bloom*. It was released on October 14, 2016.

## Composition

"Bad Things" is a mid-tempo ballad that features an interpolation of the 1999 Fastball single "Out of My Head". Lyrically, the song incorporates themes of pain-is-pleasure type of love. The song shares a bass line with Pachelbel's Canon lending it an air of familiarity.

## Music video

The music video was directed by Hannah Lux Davis and premiered on December 1, 2016. The song features an interpolation of Fastball's 1999 single "Out of My Head". The single has reached a peak of number four on the US *Billboard* Hot 100.

## Solo version

A solo version of the song has been recorded with Cabello's vocals only, based on the original recording of the song featuring her.

On December 26, 2016, Charli XCX tweeted "dying for a version of bad things with just camila cabello. that chorus is so. fucking. wild. 🙌🏻💕 can she not just do the whole song plz???".

By January 2, 2017, a solo version of the song was registered in the ASCAP database.

## Trivia

* MGK and Cabello performed the song on *The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon* on November 23, 2016, and on December 1, 2016, for *The Late Late Show with James Corden*. They later performed the song on January 30, 2017, on *The Ellen DeGeneres Show* following Cabello's exit from girl group Fifth Harmony.
* MGK and Camila also performed a cover of Say You Won't Let Go in the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge.
* It was nominated for an RDMA for Best Musical Collaboration
* The music video was based around a Bonnie and Clyde love story
* When asked whose idea it was for the two of them to collab, MGK said: “I was in the studio with The Futuristics (who produced it), looking for an authentic voice, not a product of Auto-Tune. Camila is a true vocalist and amazing live performer, so the decision was easy on our end. As soon as she accepted, we went to work.”

## Videos

Machine Gun Kelly, Camila Cabello - Bad ThingsMachine Gun Kelly, Camila Cabello - Bad Things (Behind The Scenes)Machine Gun Kelly x Camila Cabello - Bad Things (Lyric Video)Machine Gun Kelly, Camila Cabello - Bad Things (Live On The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon)Machine Gun Kelly, Camila Cabello - Bad Things (Live On The Ellen DeGeneres Show 2017)Machine Gun Kelly, Camila Cabello - Bad Things in the Live LoungeBad Things (Solo Version) - LiveCamila Cabello - ‘Bad Things’ (live at Capital’s Summertime Ball 2018)HD Bad Things - Camila Cabello 24K Magic Tour with Bruno Mars SAP Center (San Jose)Machine Gun Kelly & Camila Cabello - Bad Things (Live on The Late Late Show)-0Camila Cabello & Machine Gun Kelly - Bad Things (Live at Wango Tango 2017)
## Gallery

Not afraid to face it."*To view the **Bad Things** gallery, click **here**.*

## Lyrics

**[Chorus: Camila Cabello]**

Am I out of my head?

Am I out of my mind?

If you only knew the bad things I like

Don't think that I can explain it

What can I say, it's complicated

Don't matter what you say

Don't matter what you do

I only wanna do bad things to you

So good, that you can't explain it

What can I say, it's complicated

**[Verse 1: Machine Gun Kelly]**

Nothing's that bad

If it feels good

So you come back

Like I knew you would

And we're both wild

And the night's young

And you're my drug

Breathe you in 'til my face numb

Drop it down to that bass drum

I got what you dream about

Nails scratchin' my back tatt

Eyes closed while you scream out

And you keep me in with those hips

While my teeth sink in those lips

While your body's giving me life

And you suffocate in my kiss

Then you said

**[Pre-Chorus: Machine Gun Kelly]**

I want you forever

Even when we're not together

Scars on my body so I can take you wherever

I want you forever

Even when we're not together

Scars on my body I can look at you whenever

**[Chorus: Camila Cabello]**

Am I out of my head?

Am I out of my mind?

If you only knew the bad things I like

Don't think that I can explain it

What can I say, it's complicated

Don't matter what you say

Don't matter what you do

I only wanna do bad things to you

So good, that you can't explain it

What can I say, it's complicated

**[Verse 2: Machine Gun Kelly]**

I can't explain it

I love the pain

And I love the way your breath

Numbs me like novacaine

And we are

Always high

Keep it strange

Okay, yeah, I'm insane

But you the same

Let me paint the picture

Couch by the kitchen

Nothin' but your heels on

Losin' our religion

You're my pretty little vixen

And I'm the voice inside your head

That keeps telling you to listen to all the bad things I say

And you said

**[Pre-Chorus: Machine Gun Kelly]**

I want you forever

Even when we're not together

Scars on my body so I can take you wherever

I want you forever

Even when we're not together

Scars on my body I can look at you whenever

**[Chorus: Camila Cabello]**

Am I out of my head?

Am I out of my mind?

If you only knew the bad things I like

Don't think that I can explain it

What can I say, it's complicated

Don't matter what you say

Don't matter what you do

I only wanna do bad things to you

So good, that you can't explain it

What can I say, it's complicated

**[Bridge: Camila Cabello]**

The way we love, is so unique

And when we touch, I'm shivering

And no one has to get it

Just you and me

Cause we're just living

Between the sheets

**[Pre-Chorus: Machine Gun Kelly & Camila Cabello]**

I want you forever

Even when we're not together

Scars on my body so I can take you wherever

I want you forever

Even when we're not together

Scars on my body I can look at you whenever

**[Chorus: Camila Cabello]**

Am I out of my head?

Am I out of my mind?

If you only knew the bad things I like

Don't think that I can explain it

What can I say, it's complicated

Don't matter what you say

Don't matter what you do

I only wanna do bad things to you

So good, that you can't explain it

What can I say, it's complicated

## References

1. ↑ Camila Cabello Registers Solo Version Of “Bad Things”
2. ↑ Charli XCX via Twitter about Cabello's solo version