In other music-related Super Bowl news, the Hyundai-commissioned new song by the Smashing Pumpkins, “F.O.L.,” made its debut right before yesterday’s big game in an ad that featured many careening turns and some sort of “make your own ad” contest that takes about five minutes of Flash animations to finally get to. Billy Corgan completists out there can grab the track, which is only 3:05 yet sometimes feels like it’s about double that length (perhaps I need to, as Corgan instructs over and over and over and over again, “feel our love”), at
Do you think “free advertising from music blogs” was part of Hyundai’s plan all along?
Epic Lap [YouTube]
i feel… nothing.
nope. nothing. i can’t get excited about anything these dudes do post-Zeitgeist.
Cool car, anyway.
Oh, Billy.
Yeah, whatever haters. By the way, Billy likes that car commercial song you wrote, “I Totally Suck At Writing Car Commercial Songs”. It was a big hit in Canada.
COMEONANDFEELALONE!
FEEL…ALOOOONE!
the commercial would have worked as an instrumental. you know, his voice didn’t used to bother me so much, but now…god damn. fucking annoying. and for the record, i got off the boat with buying his records after the Zwan fiasco (which i eventually purchased from the clearance bin!) can’t believe he can still get a car commercial.
@Audif Jackson Winters III:
Wait, you seriously want to go on record as being somehow pro-Billy Corgan on any level whatsoever?
It’s lonely down there, man.
word. so come on, and feel aloooooone…
okay, okay. i’ll stop.
@MikePo: Google “Billy Corgan heckler”.
I can’t look at him anymore, it’s just easier to pretend he died and was replaced by a low-quality clone after Machina dropped.
@Audif Jackson Winters III:
Right! Forgot about that!
Was too busy reeling from the recent Sun Times (or Tribune, I forget) interview wherein he blamed James Iha for the downfall of the original lineup. Seriously, he actually said “James Iha was making me crazy.” I pooped.
James Iha = totally nice, normal guy. Utterly. I bet you still can’t get the guy to sign an autograph, because he’s too embarrassed and humble.
P.S., I’ll absolutely be expecting a libel lawsuit for making these two posts. He’s just THAT classy. So, for my upcoming court appearance, I’ll amend my post that it is my OPINION that William J. Corgan Jr. is a joke of a basket case…
“Oh, people, please, just quit buying and listening. There are REAL artists out there.”
Oh artists. Right, those people who are self centered, egotistical assholes just call themselves “artists” as an excuse to wear bad clothes and just happen to be talented in such a way that their output is deemed “art.” Put out good work, I don’t give a shit if you’re a “real artist.” Fuck artists.
“I’ll absolutely be expecting a libel lawsuit for making these two posts. He’s just THAT classy. So, for my upcoming court appearance, I’ll amend my post that it is my OPINION that William J. Corgan Jr. is a joke of a basket case…”
“Classy”……Says the guy who called Charlie Cooper a “pussy” for committing suicide.
F.O.L. = P.O.S.
Yeah, I’ve known the dude since we were twenty. I put out his first single, helped hook him up with Butch Vig for Gish, hooked him up with Sub Pop for their single of the month, basically got him his deal with Virgin by virtue of the “I Am One” single landing on the right desks back when Caroline was distributing our crap…
And since then, have watched him systematically alienate and outright fuck over every single human being who ever did him a favor or said a nice thing about him (which, okay, granted, is like five people in total). As a human being goes: this guy is the most fundamentally fucked up piece of shit I have ever encountered, EVER – and I actually still LIKE the guy. Just an absolute joke of a basket case, this guy is, and now that he’s found “god…”
Oh, people, please, just quit buying and listening. There are REAL artists out there.
wow that will be nice for me :)
I can’t look at him anymore, it’s just easier to pretend he died and was replaced by a low-quality clone after Machina dropped.