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Corgan Not Content With Current Industry

3/14/2012

Billy Corgan was one of the featured speakers at a South By Southwest panel Monday, and he expressed his dissatisfaction with how the music industry is in its current state.  Billboard.com reports that the singer told the audience, “I was part of a generation that changed the world – and it was taken over by poseurs.”  The vocalist spoke about how difficult it is for artists to catch their break these days, and added that he would need to set himself on fire on YouTube to get discovered.  He likened new artists to “fresh strippers,” and added, “[Artists that break through now] have grown up thinking that being famous is the goal, not to be respected, not to be dangerous.”  He used Lana Del Rey’s Saturday Night Live performance as an example, and stated, “It doesn’t surprise me that she crashed and burned, because she wasn’t ready for it.  I didn’t think it was that bad.”


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