Acting Like That

* Single
* Album

"**Acting Like That**" featuring Machine Gun Kelly *(stylised in lowercase)*, released 2 December 2020, is the twelfth song on the digital version of YUNGBLUD's second studio album *weird!*, as well as the album's sixth and final single. It appears only on digital versions of *weird!* due to being added too late after physical copies were all already recorded. This song was described as something added just for fun by Harrison to the sophomore album.

## Background

In December 2019, YUNGBLUD, Machine Gun Kelly and Travis Barkers first single was certified Gold in the United States, to celebrate they decided to have a party at The Roxy Theatre. They invited fans and played an unreleased song, it was posted to social media by a fan who went to the party and recorded the song. Upon hearing it fans collectively decided the placeholder name to be “acting like that”.

In November 2020, Travis Barker posted to his story a picture of a whiteboard with the original track list of Tickets To My Downfall *(Machine Gun Kelly's sixth studio album)*, fans noticed it included "acting like that" with YUNGBLUD as a feature, it was seemingly planned to be the sixth track on the standard edition, however that was swapped out for "all i know" featuring Trippie Redd and "acting like that" was completely removed from the standard edition and was not added to the deluxe edition, "body bag" was instead added to the deluxe edition.

On 30 November 2020, YUNGBLUD announced through social media that himself and Baker had decided to surprise drop the song. The song was released 2 December 2020 at midnight. Instead of YUNGBLUD being a feature he was now listed as the main artist and Machine Gun Kelly was listed as the feature on the song, and instead of it being included in a Machine Gun Kelly album, it was added last minute to Harrison's sophomore album, *weird!*. As there was no plan to put it on the album originally and it was a just-for-fun-surprise-drop, two days before album release, it did not make it to being recorded onto physical copies of the album and is only available on digital services. Apple Music currently has two versions of the album available, a version without the song and a version with it.

After the release fans noticed that some of Baker's explicit lyrics had been left out so it could go on Harrison's album.

## Lyrics

[Verse 1: Machine Gun Kelly]

Who's that knockin' at four in the morning? (Four in the morning)

'Cause it don't rain, but tonight it's pouring (Tonight it's pouring)

Uh, you like it more when I ignore it (You like it, yeah)

And since I left, LA got boring (Since I've been gone, yeah)

Hey, I'm back on my bullshit

You're a Libra, I'm a Taurus

Heard you hooked back up with your ex

And now you're asleep on my doorstep

[Chorus: Machine Gun Kelly]

You're way too hot to be acting like that

Acting like that, acting like that

You're way too hot to be acting like that

Acting like that, acting like that

I don't wanna talk right now

You're asleep outside my house

You're way too hot to be acting like that

Acting like that, acting like that

[Verse 2: YUNGBLUD]

(I've always been)

I heard that today you got on a plane to another state

I think I'm okay

Never gonna change my mind

Never gonna change my mind

And I don't think today is the last time, you got bright eyes in the dark side

I can see that look in your eyes

I can see that look in your eyes, yeah

Now I can't sleep, I'm all alone

And what we reaped was what we sowed

So can we meet somewhere in the middle? (Yeah)

[Chorus: Machine Gun Kelly & YUNGBLUD & Both]

You're way too hot to be acting like that

Acting like that, acting like that

You're way too hot to be acting like that

Acting like that, acting like that

I don't wanna talk right now (Right now)

You're asleep outside my house (Asleep outside my house)

You're way too hot to be acting like that

Acting like that, acting like that

[Post-Chorus: YUNGBLUD]

La-la, la-la, la-la

La-la-la

La-la, la-la, la-la

La-la-la

[Bridge: Machine Gun Kelly & YUNGBLUD]

Ayy

I'm going out my head

I fell in love again

I know that you'll forget me in the morning

When you are gone again

Yeah

[Chorus: Machine Gun Kelly & YUNGBLUD & Both]

You're way too hot to be acting like that

Acting like that, acting like that

You're way too hot to be acting like that

Acting like that, acting like that

I don't wanna talk right now (I don't wanna talk right now)

You're asleep outside my house (You're asleep outside my house)

You're way too hot to be acting like that

Acting like that, acting like that

[Post-Chorus: Machine Gun Kelly & YUNGBLUD]

La-la, la-la, la-la

La-la-la

La-la, la-la, la-la

La-la-la

Yeah

## Credits

*Credits adapted from TIDAL*

* Dominic Harrison — composer, lyricist, vocalist
* Chris Greatti — composer, lyricist, background vocalist
* Zakk Cervini — composer, lyricist, vocal programming
* Colson Baker — composer, lyricist, vocalist
* Matt Malpass — engineer, studio personnel
* Shaan Singh — engineer, studio personnel
* Adam Hawkins — engineer, mixer, studio personnel
* K Thrash — engineer, studio personnel
* Chris Gehringer — mastering engineer, studio personnel

## Buy/Stream

* YouTube (Audio)
* YouTube (Official Visualizer)
* YouTube (Music Video)
* SoundCloud
* Apple Music
* Tidal
* Spotify

## References

1. ↑ tessa (@tessayouweirdo) on Instagram — "acting like that" Posted 12 December 2019.
2. ↑ Apple Music — "weird! by YUNGBLUD on Apple Music". Published 4 December 2020.
(version without acting like that)
3. ↑ Apple Music — "weird! by YUNGBLUD on Apple Music". Published 4 December 2020.
(version with acting like that)
4. ↑ TIDAL — "Credits / acting like that / YUNGBLUD - TIDAL" (2 December 2020)