Melissa Auf der Maur

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1,702 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 11 Mar

Melissa Auf der Maur’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan · Melissa Auf der Maur | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan · 11 Mar 2026 podcast

By the time I saw that she wasn't going to commit, like, I remember the managers were like, hey, Melissa, talk to her about, like, committing to this other tour we were doing.

Also, to be fair to all of us, what was the state of 90s rock music?

By 99, Corn Limp Bizkit, like, Blink-182, it was not, like, an inspiring environment.

And our identities, back to, actually, I love, thank you, you brought up me evaporating.

So by 98, I'm on tour with Hole, and I'm basically an ice princess who, by the way, my father died while making Celebrity Skin.

I was being put really in this role as, like, pretty girl at the photo shoots, and all of a sudden I was just becoming this, like, mannequin to Courtney's, like, Hollywood.

And I was being mined for my beauty, which I had, when you met me, I'm glad you think I was pretty, but I did not...

I did not look at myself in the mirror.

I did not think of myself as a pretty girl.

I thought of myself as, like, a powerful, like, hippie who could bring love and change to the universe or something.

I'm still trying to be that.

But I was demoralized.

By the time I was writing my resignation letter to Hole,

on a flight from Vancouver to LA.

We had played Glastonbury.

We headlined all these incredible, this Canadian festival.

And when I saw that she was not her, she was no longer committed to it, I was it, my heart left.

I was like, I'm done.

I can't do this anymore for her.

She's not doing it for the music.

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