Billy Corgan is either a delicious bitch or an unprofessional, whiny jackass. Your choice! Corgan is in the midst of some kind of comeback (he released a new album late last year), and he’s been performing more and giving more interviews lately, often to hilarious results. I covered an interview with Corgan in December – go here to read. He was throwing shade right and left, comparing himself to Kurt Cobain, David Bowie, John Lennon and Bob Dylan. He thinks highly of himself and he has a very low opinion about nearly everyone else in the music industry. So, when he was asked about the Kanye West-Beck thing at the Grammys, Corgan’s response was interesting.
“I’ve stood at that podium too and I’ll tell you what, if somebody got up on my stage, I would knock them out. I don’t care who it is, I would have knocked him out….[It is] inappropriate for any artist to take somebody else’s moment and make it their own…I don’t know Kanye, but I think he’s speaking from his heart…I think he really believes what he’s saying, I just think that’s the inappropriate venue to do it, because in essence that’s Beck’s moment.”
He simmered any tension that he may have an agenda against the rapper however, joking about what would happen if the two ever came to blows.
‘Between Kanye and I, it’d probably be a stand-off, but Kim would probably take me down!’ he teased.
Eh, I think Shirley Manson’s response to Kanye was a lot better! People seem to be confused about the Kanye-vs.-Beck thing, in my opinion. I personally didn’t think it was any big controversy that Kanye pretended to stage-rush Beck at the actual Grammys. He was making a joke, people knew it was a joke, and everyone thought it was funny. Even Prince laughed, and Beck was into it, and he even wanted Kanye to come back up. The problem came after the show, when Kanye made some really awful statements about Beck to E! News, about how Beck didn’t respect artists and blah blah blah. That was when Kanye crossed a line.
As for Corgan… I kind of doubt that he could punch anyone out. Yeah, he’s a tall dude but he doesn’t seem scrappy at all.
Oh, and Corgan disrespected an entire Australian city this week too – he was performing at the Soundwave music festival in Adelaide, basically saying that the city was comparable to dilapidated Rust Belt cities in America, and “No disrespect to Adelaide, but people don’t think Adelaide is a cultural centre, much like they don’t think of the city I’m from, Chicago, as a cultural centre.”
Photos courtesy of WENN.
Sure, Jan
*hair flip*
LOL!
Hey taterho – If you look through your coveted potato collection, I’m fairly certain you will find one that looks exactly like Corgan
HA! My tater hoard does include a few Corganian winners.
I think Corgan looks like James Carville and Joe Pantoliano had a baby.
K calm down Billy. It won’t happen.
Um yea Billy, you won’t be nominated on that stage anytime soon….if ever.
I know, right? Now sit down old man, and eat your mush.
I want to see Billy & Kanye wrestled in a kiddie pool full of cherry jello! My life would be complete.
And I bet Billy is a dirty bitch in ring. He’s definitely a hair puller & biter.
I would pay good money to see that, especially if he knocks the stuffing out of Blabbermouth West!
He’s starting to look like Karl Rove but with less hair.
Oh my god yes. Now I can’t unsee it.
Gahhh, that’s who it is! Unsee, unsee!
Damnit lol
but let’s not pretend we wouldn’t give a standing ovation if someone actually did knock out Kanye lol
He is known for smashing pumpkins.
Ba-Dum Tshh
*Kiddo’s here all week folks*
Sorry, it was too easy.
I’m in the Delicious Bitch camp. I love every interview you cover of Billy. No post is complete without that Cat magazine cover, though.
I’d give up half a year’s salary to watch *anyone* knock out Kanye.
Chicago isn’t a cultural center? That’s news to me. Sure, it’s not NYC, but really?
Isn’t he an even bigger a-hole than Kanye?
I don’t think thats possible.
I was thinking that they’re probably more alike than they are different.
Well I know what I said I would have done if I was Beck, I would have hit him with the statue and said I felt threatened
What’s with his hand in the second pic? Yikessss!!
It should be a requirement that whenever Corgan is covered, the magazine cover of him and his two sassy black cats accompanies it.
He may be a whiny jackass sometimes, but I can’t say I disagree with him here about Kanye taking someone else’s moment.
I would have loved to have seen that. Beck’s too nice and chill to do that. Actually Billy Corgan in the 90s was the Kanye of alternative rock to some of us.
“As for Corgan… I kind of doubt that he could punch anyone out. Yeah, he’s a tall dude but he doesn’t seem scrappy at all.”
And Kanye West does? He’s the epitome of a Mama’s Boy.
Billy Corgan would have screamed and thrown cats at him.
His comments on my hometown seem pretty accurate though. I haven’t read his exact quote
I don’t think Kanye said Beck doesn’t respect artists; he said the _Grammys_ don’t respect artists. And to be clear: I am NOT defending Kanye. I’m just clarifying facts.