A brand new tune by MGK (previously Machine Gun Kelly) will function the official anthem for ESPN’s Faculty protection for the 2025-2026 season. The musician broke the information throughout an look on The Pat McAfee Present Thursday afternoon (July 31), and ESPN shared the main points with Billboard first.
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“Don’t Wait Run Quick” is a rock-tinged tune slated to land on MGK’s upcoming album, Misplaced Americana, which arrives on Aug. 8.
It’s the twelfth season ESPN has collaborated with an artist to offer the soundtrack to the Worldwide Chief’s faculty soccer protection. Final 12 months, the community teamed up with Jelly Roll and his tune “Get By.” Earlier artists embrace Put up Malone, Juice WRLD, Marshmello and Fall Out Boy.
“Music and faculty soccer have been intertwined for years, and our ESPN Faculty Soccer anthem ushers in that first spark of the season,” stated Curtis Pals, ESPN VP of promoting, in a press release. “This twelfth iteration, MGK brings a passionate, high-voltage sound that mirrors the uncooked emotion and untamed spirit of school soccer.”
ESPN additionally launched a cinematic trailer that includes MGK and “Don’t Wait Run Quick” behind the wildest moments of the 2024 faculty soccer season, which completed with Ohio State successful the Faculty Soccer Playoff Nationwide Championship.
The 35-year-old isn’t any stranger to the school soccer scene. He hit the stage on West Virginia College’s campus final season, the place he carried out a mashup of “Lonely Street/ Take Me House, Nation Street.”
MGK’s Misplaced Americana serves because the genre-blending artist’s seventh studio album. He’s beforehand launched singles “Cliche,” which debuted at No. 62 on the Billboard Scorching 100, “Vampire Diaries” and “Miss Sunshine.”
Faculty soccer protection kicks off this season Aug. 23 on all of ESPN’s platforms and ABC. Watch the trailer beneath.
