Billy Corgan

But looking backwards, you know, it's the stuff of people getting married.

But isn't it interesting, I don't know, you tell me, but that these road-tested bands that really came out of rock, progressive rock, 60s music, it ended up turning into this other thing

which some people kind of go, I don't know about all that.

You know, a lot of DX7 all of a sudden, if you get the joke.

I do, I do.

You know, even the Doobies, right?

I mean, who were basically kind of almost like a bar band.

Yeah.

I mean, they got Michael McDonald and they went down that.

So as a fan of the time, it seemed like it suddenly was like somebody flipped a switch somewhere and suddenly everybody's doing ballads.

And in the 80s, it was the same complaint with the hair metal bands.

that they all went ballad crazy too.

Can I say it slightly differently though?

Okay.

I think you're a really strong rock singer.

Some people like, you know, they're better at one thing or another, but you sing rock very, very well.

And like you said, I always identified with you as a rock singer.

So it wasn't like I couldn't identify you with you as a ballad singer, but something about the way you sang ballads, it was like, oh, there's this other thing that you do.

And maybe the definition of the time, the times, of course, is part of it.

But you seem to step forward and sort of like, I don't know, it's like, I don't want to say it's the best you, that's the wrong way to put it.