In October, Machine Gun Kelly told Variety that Born With Horns is more like "college", while its predecessor Tickets To My Downfall "was metaphorically high school".
"And I think like, in high school, you don’t really have a sense of responsibility, you have a fear of that responsibility, and so you want to explode and use all that energy for fucking off," he explained. "And then college comes, which is this album, and you are aware of the responsibility and you still know how to have fun, but you understand that there’s a certain duty you have to your life to do something with it.
"Born With Horns feels like it has an objective or a real lesson that you’re walking away with."