Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan had some powerful words in support of the types of bands that he thinks will be able to last in today’s music industry.
“In a world that no longer celebrates musicality, actually being musical is our greatest strength,” he discusses in a recent Q & A held in Concord, CA. “Being facile is our greatest strength, because literally the generations that are coming up, they can’t move, they cannot move. They are like in one fucking lane, they adhere to their audience, they adhere to social media, they adhere to a trend. Now the audience can celebrate it and pretend like it’s the greatest newest thing, until they discard them and they go on to the next thing.”
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“Real lasting power in this world now, generationally speaking, is The Who, is The Grateful Dead,” he goes on to explain. “It is Phish, or Dave Matthews, or Foo Fighters. People who can actually play, and actually move with the audience and have a conversation. Now is that everything in the musical world? No. But basically now it’s an immovable force, because you can’t get rid of it.”
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“Seven years ago it was a negative,” he continues. “‘Why the fuck are you doing thirty minute jams’? Every day now on Twitter, ‘Please play Gossamer!’…Something nobody wanted to hear back then!”
Watch the full interview below, via Alternative Nation:
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