mtv Bladee And Mechatok Are Winning And Losing At The Same Time How the ethereal artists try (and, by their own metrics, fail) to make pop songs on Good Luck
By Eli Enis
Bladee and Mechatok like to think of luck as a paradox. The 26-year-old cloud-rap icon and the 23-year-old producer are sitting in a Swedish hotel room talking about how their new album documents their simultaneous failure and success at creating perfect pop music. The eight-track project is simply titled
Good Luck, but they donât subscribe to the idiomâs optimistic connotations. âWhen you say âgood luckâ to someone, youâre kind of implying that thereâs a good chance that it might not work out,â Mechatok says with a smile. âYouâre not saying that, if youâre confident, itâs going to be fine.â