Stereogum e l’oceani(c)a intervista

Lunga ma interessante, arzigogolata ma vibrante e rivelatrice: l’intervista concessa da Billy Corgan al magazine online Stereogum pubblicata ieri è una lettura consigliatissima e quasi obbligatoria. Si parla di quel che sta succedendo (il tour in Europa allora vicino alla conclusione e ora ufficialmente terminato), di quel che è successo (in passato) e di quel che succederà con “Oceania”. Insomma, se per un qualche motivo siete arrivati su questa pagina, allora avete l’obbligo morale di spupazzarvi tutte e 6000 le parole. Che includono anche passaggi come questo, dedicato a Siamese Dream e al ri-approccio in occasione della preparazione delle versioni deluxe da poco disponibili:

“The one advantage I have over everybody else, except for Butch Vig or somebody, is that I know I actually have a fairly honest opinion of the album’s strengths and weaknesses because I had to assess them at the time. So it’s interesting to look at it eighteen years later and say “OK that’s not as strong as I thought at the time but I can remember why I thought it was stronger.” And then I can look at something else … “Geek USA” is an example of a song that at the time I thought it was kind of dumb. Kind of fun but kind of dumb, too. Now I look back and I think it’s actually kind of clever in its nihilism or something. Do you know what I mean? I can kind of appreciate that I was being clever in being dumb. It wasn’t just dumb to be dumb.”

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