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Billy Corgan

Singer and songwriter, frontman of the Smashing Pumpkins

We retrieved 1 post and 50 comments from u/iamBillyCorgan, all from 2014, most often in r/IAmA.

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A redditor wrote in r/IAmA

On “I am Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins and Madame Zuzu's. AMA.”

The song 1979 absolutely transports me back to the happiest time in my life. Was that song based on an actual experience you had? Do you remember how that song came to you?

u/iamBillyCorgan replied

Sometimes I write a song from a particular sense-memory.

And 1979 came from a memory where I was sitting at a traffic light on a rainy day, and that's all I remember.

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u/iamBillyCorgan posted in r/IAmA

I am Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins and Madame Zuzu's. AMA.

Hello. I am Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins. Our new album, Monuments to an Elegy, is released today on iTunes, on Amazon and on Google Play. Victoria's helping me out today in rainy NYC. I'm enjoying a nice cup of tea. AMA…

u/iamBillyCorgan replied

Someone asked about how much it meant to have the crowd sing along with my newest music at a concert, and how their coworkers were debating whether it didn't matter to me and it was just about me doing the…

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Someone asked about how much it meant to have the crowd sing along with my newest music at a concert, and how their coworkers were debating whether it didn't matter to me and it was just about me doing the show and getting paid:

Your coworkers' cynicism is endemic of the culture's cynicism.

To assume that "what I get paid" has any influence on my emotional experience shows that they do not understand the path of an artist.

One of the most disappointing aspects of the last 7 years has been the assumption that i have made music that is not worth listening to.

And so, nothing thrills me more than seeing a young crowd react to new Pumpkins music.

A redditor wrote in r/IAmA

On “I am Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins and Madame Zuzu's. AMA.”

I read somewhere that the voice actors who play Spongebob Squarepants (Tom Kenny) and Plankton's computer wife (Jill Talley) are the couple in the Toinght, Tonight video. How did you guys meet? Have you been in contact with them since the video was produced? Edit: corrected…

u/iamBillyCorgan replied

That is true.

And I have seen them on occasion. They're wonderful and obviously talented people. And it's a great thing to tell nieces and nephews that I know Spongebob.