Billy Corgan

It's like all of a sudden there's this other version of you too.

Like it was one plus one equals seven or something.

And that seemed to expand the vision of the band.

I didn't understand as a fan at the time, but as a writer now, I get it like, oh, okay.

How could you not go there because you were really good at it?

It's not like you were bad at it.

It was obviously the public agreed.

Yeah, we'd have about seven more of those if you can.

Yeah.

And now you can't sit down and have an Italian dinner with your family without somebody coming up and asking for a picture and autograph or...

Hey, write another one of those to me, Kevin.

Yeah, you're out of here.

mind you know um so uh i i googled or something i i asked uh you know whatever one of these ai systems how many records have you sold in your in your musical life over 40 million really yeah so i should probably get a royalty check then at some point well i can't speak i can't speak to your deals we should we surely we've recouped but um

look, the band, at least from my perspective, is an institutional band.

So as a way to kind of bring it to a restful thing, you know, the most recent news, and I don't do clickbait, so I'm not asking you for the dirt on the kerfuffle with the band, with the name and the thing and you on your own and all that.

But I guess what I'm after is

I just thought maybe the easiest thing to do is try to put yourself in somebody else's shoes.

You've got huge songs that are crossover hits.

You're singing ballads that are still being played in Thai cafes, right?

Two things occur to me.