Corgan: Smashing Pumpkins Future is “Murky”
Could 2014’s Monuments for an Elegy and 2015’s forthcoming Day for Night be the last two new studio 
albums we receive from Smashing Pumpkins? Well, according to Billy (but please, call him William) Corgan, the band’s future is up in the air.
“The future of the Smashing Pumpkins is kinda murky,” explained Corgan in a new interview with Peru’s Radio Oasis. “I’ve only committed to the idea of The Smashing Pumpkins through, pretty much, to the end of this year. After that I’m gonna see how it goes.”
He continued: “I feel like I really need to evaluate the musical purpose of the Pumpkins,” he continued. “Because more and more of the audience is fixated on the past. I know a lot of the audience will say, ‘Well, I like your music better from the ’90s, than say the music you’re making today.’ But I know they’re not listening to the music of today, as much as they were listening to that music. And they’re also not listening in the same contextual thing…I’m the type of artist that I don’t wanna sort of exist in something that is sort of fading like an iceberg into the past.”
To Corgan’s credit, he didn’t at all sound snarky, jaded, or disappointed by this assessment of modern music culture, or the Smashing Pumpkins presence within it. Unfortunately, like many artists who made their greatest impact in the ‘90s, it seems as if he’s internally struggling with the idea of becoming a nostalgia act in order to keep fans happy.
-Adam Grant
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