Singer Landon Barker, whose new music (featuring dad Travis Barker on the drums) is inspired by his ups and downs, opens up to PEOPLE about his difficult year, which included a private struggle with mental health issues.
Apart from being a highly stylized display of the singer and Barker performing numbers from MGK s latest album, the musical also has a narrative string. The nearly hour-long film features TikTok sensation Chase Hudson and
Euphoria actress Sydney Sweeney as a fated high school couple.
It further involves plenty of Kelly s contemporaries and
Tickets contributors, such as
Downfalls High co-creator Mod Sun plus Trippie Redd, blackbear, Iann Dior and Maggie Lindemann. To wit, the movie s initial inspiration came from MGK s and Mod Sun s inside joke about watching
Grease 2. We re making a new pop-punk
Grease, Kelly told NME of the film last year. It was almost like shooting 14 music videos back-to-back, but with a narrative that s outside of my personal life stories. It focuses on other characters, and then me and [Barker] are just the narrators.