billy corgan sucks at everything.
I’ve often expressed my frustrations with the emotional short bus that is Billy Corgan. Billy Corgan was the lead singer for a band that withered their way into the hearts of 1990s teenage suburbia. But by the end of the decade, it was nearly universally agreed upon that Billy Corgan was a stupid, self-involved little man who, as a nation, we would set aside as an unfortunate cultural relic of that wacky decade. An what a wacky decade it was! After half a century, we suddenly didn’t have vodka-flavored nuclear obliteration to worry about. So, we spent the decade having debates about the President’s splooge on AOL message boards. On Thursday nights we would all huddle together to laugh at a program about a group of unemployed 20-somethings on Manhattan’s Upper West Side—and it had a MONKEY! (At least it did until it bit the guy with the nose and gave him monkey AIDS.) And yes, some of us even listened to—and seriously contemplated—the music of The Smashing Pumpkins. We were just all crazy in the head back then! So we can forgive ourselves for setting a place at the cultural table for Billy Corgan. We just didn’t know what the fuck we were doing.
Now, usually when society has realized it’s made an error, we allow our cultural mistakes to slowly evaporate away. Like a fart. But with Twitter, any cultural personality, no matter how obscure or unimportant can linger on. And Billy Corgan is one of those lingerers.
Lately, it seems that Billy has turned to God. But not in the hip Moby way, or even in the scary Kirk Cameron vein. Billy has apparently learned everything he knows about his faith from Hallmark greeting cards. And he has decided to use the venue of his Twitter account to spread his lazy saccharine gospel of corny gabbida gook.

No! And it would be slightly less retarded if it wasn’t derivative of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
Hear that, gangstas! Billy Corgan doesn’t think you own your fucking beach rock. And he ended it with an ellipsis so it will be more poignant…
Just like Stand and Deliver.

Awww, isn’t that something… or wait, no, actually that is nothing.
I think Billy is trying to say that God is beautiful. Does that mean a person who is beautiful on the inside loses the ability to see anything ugly. Like if Mother Teresa saw a child getting raped and killed she’d be all like “Oh, Fantastic raping, boys!” Or, maybe Billy trying to convey how beautiful all of humanity is. Well, isn’t that nice. ALL of humanity is beautiful! Like that kid who was going around a Miami suburb killing cats a few months back. According to Billy Corgan, that was beautiful. I respectfully disagree, Billy Corgan. I think murdering cats is wrong. But maybe that’s just where you and I disagree…




about 1 year ago
I’m going to be one of those guys who defends Billy Corgan slightly. I mean, yeah, he’s a self-absorbed douche, but I admire his insistence on doing his music thing outside the established industry way of thinking. Make fun all you want of the title “Teargarden By Kaleidyscope” (and, as a progressive rock fan, even I can find plenty of mockery material), but the “one free song a month then package it as an EP for the obsessives who just have to own physical media” plan is great.
And I kinda liked the “Zeitgeist” album.
about 1 year ago
I don’t know if it’s insistence as much as it’s what’s he’s left with because nobody wants to really work with him anymore.
I wasn’t a big fan of most of his music, but that’s nothing special, there’s lots of people I don’t feel musically. But I just get this raw emotional hatred for Billy Corgan whenever I see/hear/read an interview or any of his inane tweets. Maybe because he reminds me so much of me, when I was 11. I don’t know.
Certainly there are more important things to worry about than Billy Corgan’s twitter stream, but I’ll be damned if he doesn’t always seem to be able to find a way to make me very mad in under 140 characters.
about 10 months ago
So…a few things on this.
I’m atheist and a smashing pumpkin fan so I find it disappointing he has turned to God. I don’t need a once “tortured” artist preaching to me about Jesus and that nonsense.
Second..with his celebrity friendships to Paris Hilton and Jessica Simpson he is losing all respect I once had for him. I like listening to his interviews, he’s intelligent and has some depth, yet he says things about some of the celebrities he knows like Paris Hilton, and it makes me want to burn his CDs. One word just sums it up: Sell Out.