Landon Barker Signs With Dad Travis’ DTA Records, Drops Debut Single ‘Friends With Your Ex’: It’s a ‘Messed Up Little Love Story’ (EXCLUSIVE)

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Ellise Shafer Landon Barker is following in dad Travis’ pop-punk footsteps, signing to the Blink-182 drummer’s Elektra imprint DTA Records and releasing his debut single, “Friends With Your Ex.” “I’ve been wanting to do this since I was a kid, since I was probably 8 or 10 years old,” Barker, now 19, tells Variety. “Just watching my dad perform, I’ve always been inspired and wanted to be up on stage and move people with music of my own.” Travis Barker provided drums and production on the upbeat “Friends With Your Ex,” which clocks in at just under two minutes and chronicles what Barker calls “a messed up little love story.” “I was friends with your ex/ You were with him when we met,” Barker croons over the song’s driving chorus. “Guess he hasn’t found out yet/ But I know he’s gonna kill me when he sees me with you.” Barker’s girlfriend, Charli D’Amelio, stars in the song’s music video, and there’s already been speculation that Barker wrote the song about the TikTok queen and her ex-boyfriend, fellow pop-punk revivalist Chase Hudson aka Huddy. “I originally got the idea to write the song just based on life and what I was going through,” Barker says, adding later: “I mean, take it how you want it, you know?” Barker penned the track with producer and frequent Machine Gun Kelly collaborator Nick Long at the beginning of the year, but he’s been working on his own music in the studio for around four years now.

In fact, Barker featured on Kelly’s “Die in California” last year, which came about while the two were recording in opposite studios. “I was in the studio and he was recording with my dad in the other room,” Barker says of Kelly.