Billy Corgan

Were you conscious of how important that was going to be at the time?

Because at the time it was sort of an emerging thing.

But now people look back very fondly on this idea that there was this marriage of music and video.

I saw one of these clips where they were kind of joking and then suddenly they went to like a Gen X clip or something.

Because you guys like looking back, you you pick the right lane because a lot of people, their videos don't hold up very well.

I don't know.

Maybe it was because it was new to them or they didn't have a sense that that the video was an extension of their musical life.

You know, we've all done it where the artist shows up and they don't really want to do the video and they kind of phone it in.

But at least from my perspective, videos was such an important part of who you were.

You like, I guess, maybe for lack of better, you really owned things.

being in the video.

It's amazing Bowie's influence on so many artists in so many different directions.

With time, it becomes even more obvious.

You know, like I recently interviewed a gentleman who was part of the L.A.

early goth scene out here.

and Bowie was his inspiration and he took music in a completely different direction than you took it.

Right.

Um, so you have this incredible role here, uh, rebel yell eyes without a face flesh for fantasy catch my fall.

Um,

i'm not saying blade runner was an influence but there's this i talked about it before a little bit like this idea of proto-futurism how and you were talking about science fiction but like how how how much of that was was i'm trying to ask a slightly different way to put it because it seems to be imbued in the in the musical production um does it make sense the question i'm asking