Billy Corgan Promoting New Smashing Pumpkins Album ‘Monuments To An Elegy;’ Slams On Ninetees Bands And Compares Them With DJ’s

While promoting the new Smashing Pumpkins album "Monuments To An Elegy," frontman Billy Corgan says that it's time to move on from the past of the band and relieve the music he is currently creating, calling the 90's "irrelevant,"

Being a band that started in the early ninties, Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan slammed on the then artists who are not reaching the charts anymore including his own band, as reported by Rolling Stones.

He claimed that the current generation of music would always top the music that "has been" even if people would treasure those songs to be sentimental to them.

"EDM is kicking everybody's fucking ass," he claimed. "It doesn't mean anything."

"Look at the numbers the DJs are making!" he said. "They're kicking rock bands' ass. And we're sitting here talking about an era from 20 years ago because it's misty in people's minds. Meanwhile, there's 60,000 people in a field watching a guy with lights behind him."

The new album "Monuments To An Elegy" received a three star rating from The Guardian but that didn't stop Corgan to think twice about his recent release. He claimed that the band's former albums that were considered classics today were also rated with three stars and that doesn't stop him from creating a music that he used to live for.

"Here I am all these years later making a Smashing Pumpkins record that sounds a lot like Smashing Pumpkins and, childish as it may be, I thought there might be a moment of repose this time," Corgan said. "But here comes the guy with the fucking steak knife that just can't give the credit. So it reminds me of that 25-year-old that wasn't getting the credit either. I'm never going to get the credit. That game is over. So I'm going back to being an aggressive, street-level artist."

Billy Corgan might not want to look back at the past but rather continue going forward as he continues to promote the new Smashing Pumpkins album.

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