Billy Corgan

They would repurpose public projects for housing.

Designer drugs was part of it.

Of course, obviously, the ability for people to communicate on the internet.

So that turned out to be very pressing as far as what was coming.

And I thought it was really interesting that you were at the very beginning, you're like, look, all this stuff is coming.

And you just got hammered.

Did it strike you as ironic when, you know, because at the peak, peak 90s Gen X grunge, you know, so much of what you'd started was basically now it's now it's pop.

you know, like Green Day is an obvious example, but I'm saying it's like all the things that you'd started in the, in the mid seventies with Generation X is like, now it's like total mainstream and now it's even bigger.

Now, 30 years later, it's even bigger.

It's even bigger.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Do you look back and sort of, do you feel good about that?

Do you think I should have done something different?

Like, how does all that register in you?

Are you proud?

Are you?

No, I don't mean it that way.

I mean it more as like, you know, you look back and you see your influence and certain contemporaries' influence.

No, I don't mean it.