I Think I'm Okay

Album

## Single by Machine Gun Kelly, Yungblud and Travis Barker

"**I Think I'm Okay**" (stylized as "**I Think I'm OKAY**") is a song by Machine Gun Kelly, YUNGBLUD, and Travis Barker, released on June 7, 2019. The three co-wrote it with Rory "WYNNE" Andrew, Brandon "SlimXX" Allen, Steve "BazeXX" Basil, Nicholas "Nick" Long, and India Quateman. It serves as the fourteenth and final track from MGK's fourth studio album, *Hotel Diablo* (2019). It peaked at No. 4 on *Billboard*'s Hot Rock Songs chart and was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on July 7, 2020.

The accompanying music video was directed by Andrew Sandler, uploaded to YouTube on June 13, 2019. As of May 2023, it has 115M+ views.

## Background

MGK said in a video, "I'll never forget when Yungblud says, 'take drugs on gravestones.' Everyone's always looking for lyrics and words that rhyme that are unique. It feels like everything's been said a million times over and that was the first time I ever heard a lyric like that. That was a line I wish I wrote."

On Genius, there were several annotations. The first was how the track was created:

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> This song started with the guitar riff. We were obviously going back and forth trying to just figure out our own legacy riff. You know what I mean? Like everybody has that one riff when you start playing it the crowds go crazy. Like, "Oh my God it's this song." And I've tried that for the past two albums. So my friend Nick was playing. I would play stuff, but when he played this riff. I was like stop everything and record that. I was just freestyling lyrics and I would just say stuff and see if anyone reacted. And I remember when I said, "Watch me. Take a good thing and fuck it all up in one night," There were all these girls there, and when I said that line, they all were like, "Oh my God. Mood." Who hasn't had that moment where they're like, "Dude, how did I just fuck everything up in one night?" So I guess I win, cause I thought of it first.
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Concerning the collab:

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> We started laying vocals. I was like, "I gotta get Yungblud on here" and you know, I was asking my friends like, "do you know who he is? He's like this crazy British kid. He would sound perfect on air." And he was in town. Ironically, right when I was. So I had two verses on the song originally. Second verse I just threw away and Yungblud came in and he had 10 minutes to record his verse cause I had a session with Travis that day for something completely separate. Yungblud, he walked in the booth, freestyled every part of his verse. When I say free, I don't mean like figuring it out over and over. I'm talking about, he walked into the booth and I'm like, "Dude, you got 10 minutes. Do you like this song? Can you think of anything?" And he was like, "Oh yeah, this is great. Like just put me in and he off the top of the head, came, "Roll me up. and smoke me, love." He finished it. His verse was one long verse. That's why I split it up. Like that altro is really part of his verse. He just freestyled a 10 minute riff. And I was like, "All right, well I gotta go. Thanks man. I'd facetime him 15 minutes later and Travis was playing drums in there cause I walked in and played it for Travis. He was like, "Oh dude, I got it."
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Prior to the single's release, MGK spoke to Beats 1's Zane Lowe and premiered the song. He shared, "Fun fact about this song is that YUNGBLUD came into my studio 15 minutes before I needed to go to Travis' house because we had a session planned. I was like, 'Dude, I have this crazy song idea. I just need you to do something but I don't have any time. I have to go to Travis' house. I can't waste his time. You just gotta get in there and do something.' He went in there and freestyled his whole verse and just left my house all within 10 minutes. I called him back 30 minutes later, and I'm like, 'Dude, Travis Barker's putting drums on the song right now.'"

## Personnel

* Brandon "SlimXX" Allen – writer, producer, recording engineer
* Colin Leonard – mastering engineer
* Colson "Machine Gun Kelly Baker – vocals, writer, producer
* Dominic "Yungblud" Harrison – vocals, writer
* India Quateman – writer
* Matt Malpass – recording engineer
* Neal Avron – mixing engineer
* Nicholas "Nick" Long – writer
* Omer Fedi – guitar
* Rory "WYNNE" Andrew – writer, producer
* Steve "BazeXX" Basil – writer, producer
* Tim Glover – A&R
* Travis Barker – writer, producer, drums
* Zakk Cervini – additional producer, recording engineer

## Gallery

* Audacy
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* Genius
* Live in Denver

## Lyrics

**Lyrics**
[Chorus: Machine Gun Kelly]

Watch me take a good thing and fuck it all up in one night

Catch me, I'm the one on the run away from the headlights

No sleep, up all week, wasting time with people I don't like

I think something's fucking wrong with me

[Verse 1: Machine Gun Kelly]

Drown myself in alcohol, that shit never helps at all

I might say some stupid things tonight when you pick up this call

I've been hearing silence on the other side for way too long

I can taste it on my tongue, I can tell that something's wrong, but

I guess it's just my life and I can take it if I wanna

But I cannot hide in hills of California

Because these hills have eyes, and I got paranoia

I hurt myself sometimes, is that too scary for you?

[Chorus: Machine Gun Kelly *with YUNGBLUD*]

Watch me take a good thing and fuck it all up in one night

Catch me, I'm the one on the run away from the headlights

No sleep, up all week, wasting time with people I don't like

I think *that something's fucking wrong with me*

[Verse 2: YUNGBLUD]

Roll me up and smoke me, love

And we can fly into the night

Roll me up and smoke me, love

And we can fly into the night

You take drugs (Take drugs) to let go (Let go)

And figure it all out on your own

Take drugs (Take drugs) on gravestones (Gravestones)

To figure it all out on your own

[Chorus: Machine Gun Kelly and YUNGBLUD]

Watch me take a good thing and fuck it all up in one night

Catch me, I'm the one on the run away from the headlights

No sleep, up all week, wasting time with people I don't like

I think that something's fucking wrong with me

[Outro: YUNGBLUD, *Machine Gun Kelly*]

Find me alone at midnight

Inside my mind, tryna get things right

(*Something's fucking wrong with me*)

They want to keep you calling

So you don't wake in the morning

(*Something's fucking wrong with me*)

Goodnight, goodnight

Goodnight, goodnight, yeah (Goodnight)

Find me alone at midnight (Goodnight)

Inside my mind, tryna get things right (Goodnight)

They want to keep you calling (Goodnight)

So you don't wake in the morning

## References

1. ↑ Campbell, Rachel (June 25, 2019). "MGK Breaks Personal Rock Chart Record with YUNGBLUD, Travis Barker Song". *Alternative Press*.
2. ↑ Cerio, Michael (November 18, 2019). "Yungblud and MGK Wish They Wrote 'I Think I'm OKAY' When They Were 12". *Audacy*.
3. ↑ Campbell, Rachel (June 6, 2019). "Machine Gun Kelly Finally Drops Travis Barker, YUNGBLUD Collab". *Alternative Press*.