Billy Corgan
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
To us, Aerosmith was an alternative band.
Oh, yeah.
But when you find that, like I found Cheap Trick or you found.
Well, Cheap Trick is the whole sauce.
Like there it is.
But I'm saying when you find it, you're like, oh, my God, these guys have the manual to get me out of here.
Just to finish the point.
Have you found, like I have, that people's obsessions often belie their greatest fear?
Okay.
So my argument is the reason the upper middle class to snobby rich kid class, almost predominantly white, by the way.
It goes to upper, but middle.
But they need the upper middle class to give it the legitimacy.
Yes, thank you.
Okay.
I hear you.
Why are they so obsessed to this day with the concept of authenticity?
They end up making a lot of music that people don't want to listen to.
But they secretly listen to Abba at home.
That's the strangest thing.
Feigned innocence.