Songfacts®:

• "Times of My Life" arrives like a postcard written long after a breakup, creased at the edges and strangely calm. It's a melancholic ballad about letting go without theatrics, originally written by MGK with Travis Barker and Jacob Kasher around 2018.
• The premise is disarmingly simple. MGK sings that he hopes his ex is doing well while quietly admitting that, for all the damage and dysfunction, the relationship still represented the "best times" of his life. It's closer in spirit to the introspective yearning of "Invincible" than the chaos of "Bloody Valentine." The anger has burned itself out; what's left is smoke and memory.
• "Times of My Life" was the first song MGK wrote with Travis Barker, a couple of years before they accidentally-on-purpose reinvented pop-punk together on the album Tickets to My Downfall.
• MGK first mentioned the track publicly in 2019 on ALT 92.3 Radio, when he said it reminded him of the Oasis song "Wonderwall." He intended it to be the closing track of his 2020 Tickets To My Downfall album but couldn't get authorization to publish the song from Tom Petty's estate, due to the similarity of the hook to an unnamed song of Petty's.
• For years, the song existed only as a low-quality leak. It became a holy grail track, frequently requested by fans during livestreams and Q&As. On December 23, 2022, a V5.2 demo leaked online, cementing its status as MGK's most famous unreleased song. By this point, it had outlived entire relationships and album cycles. Speculation swirled as to why it remained unreleased for so long, with most fingers pointing toward the sample clearance issue.
• MGK eventually released the song to start 2026, acknowledging its status as a fan favorite. In social media posts accompanying the release, he noted that while he wrote the words eight years previously, they "mean something different to me now."
• The song's writing predates MGK's relationship with Megan Fox, so outlets and fan accounts caution that it is not about her. While fans have linked it to various girls he dated in that era, such as Sommer Ray and Chantel Jeffries, there's no confirmation from MGK or official sources who, if anybody, was the inspiration.
• You may occasionally see "Times of My Life" labeled online as a collaboration with Juice WRLD, often under the alternate title "Best Times of My Life." These are fan-made mashups. The official version is a solo MGK vocal, with production by Travis Barker; no features, no ghosts in the machine.