SMASHING PUMPKINS’ NEW MUSIC IN CAR ADD

The Smashing Pumpkins have released a new tune. The song is called FOL and it was featured in a car add during the Super Bowl. Probably not the best way to hear a new Pumpkins release but I’ll take it-why not? The song sounds like an old B-side, a lot of fuzzy guitars and energy but something didn’t translate in the recording. The song is good though. I wasn’t too impressed the first time around when I saw it in the car commercial but after seeing the full song on YouTube, it wasn’t bad. He’s tapping into the angsty/lonely/bored teenager thing again and there’s magic there. It worked for them in the old days and Billy’s doing it again this time around in FOL. That whole vibe worked for the Pumpkins and Billy knows that. Some people will hear this and say that he’s becoming a caricature of himself, fair enough. But give Billy credit where it’s due. He still writes good material (although “As Rome Burns” would have made a much better single than FOL) and let’s be honest, when he tried to experiment no one bought his albums (for the record, I like his solo stuff). So, Billy’s going back to what works: The Smashing Pumpkins. No, he’s not compromising, he’s expressing his art through a medium that works and I say, good for him. Who can complain about the Pumpkins reforming, it’s exciting, there was a spirit there and Billy knows it. It’s just too bad, that spirit that surrounded the old Pumpkins in the mid-nineties had as much to do with that time as the music did, there was a spontaneous wave in a moment that can never be fully recreated again. The Pumpkins are still good but it isn’t the same now, we can reminisce but that old feeling will never thrive the same way it did when melon collie came out. Ah, who cares I still love the Pumpkins!

Watch FOL Now!!


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