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Smashing Pumpkins: "FOL" (Hyundai Ad) (Video)

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It was announced on Wednesday that the Smashing Pumpkins (which essentially amounts to Billy Corgan and whoever is unlucky enough to be forced to tour with him these days) wrote a song ("FOL") for a Hyundai ad that is set to debut at the Super Bowl. And as the case is these days, no ad meant for the Super Bowl can actually make it unviewed to the game, including the Pumpkins' which is above for your "commercialism has killed rock 'n' roll" (and "Smashing Pumpkins suck") diatribe purposes. Oh Billy, Hyundai? I had you pegged for a Mazda guy. [Stereogum]

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The Smashing Pumpkins are Billy AND Jimmy Chamberlin. They put on a great live performance. They don't pander to casual listeners. They play for their fans. The real fans. Not the ones who came just to hear 1979, or Bullet with Butterfly wings, but the ones who want to here the more obscure stuff. So Andrew, shut up when you don't know what you're talking about.

Merp

whoever wrote this article sucks... anyone who is "unlucky enough to tour with him"? anyone should consider themselves lucky if they get a chance to work with billy corgan... and i'm also going to have to go ahead and say shut up, andrew!

benji

Andrew you are a tool. Just because Billy may be weird, doesn't mean he isn't a talented artist who I am sure many would count themselves lucky enough to meet.

George

Clearly Billy Corgan hates America for not selling out to GM/Ford/Chrysler.

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Hey Andrew, you're the sellout for posting your creative musings to this website and receiving pay for the work. Why not just shout your rants at a wall and bask in the glow of true artistry. Stupid wanker.

DesignHawg

I didn't say Corgan was a sell-out specifically. I just expected him to prefer Mazdas.

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The only fact of this entire paragraph is the following: "And as the case is these days, no ad meant for the Super Bowl can actually make it unviewed to the game". That Corgan wrote the song FOR the ad is not even known.

Fail. Seriously.

Carl H.

billy corgan never has and never will sell out, but he's always 2 steps ahead of the general idiotic consensus. who the hell is this andrew guy anyway? what a dumbass.

dave

shut up andrew

paul

Since SP does not have a record label, I think it's actually a really cool move on Billy and Jimmy's part to get Hyundai to pay for the recording of the song, and get it to the fans for free! Why is everyone bent out of shape about this? It's fücking free!

BOP

@Estan maybe he didn't pick GM/Ford/Chrysler because they suck, but at least they don't suck as bad as the guy who wrote this article.

Your Mom

download and listen to the whole song...it rocks.

827

worst article ever guy should be fired

andrew is gay

Song's kinda weak, gotta say

Carlso

The Pumpkins (Jimmy and Billy and the rest of their new band) rocked in Chicago. So, this song is exciting for me. Idiots who think that a band cannot continue without two contributing members need to check themselves.

Scott

Mate you are a complete twat. Why don't you check your unsubstantiable worthless opinions at the door and get a real job?

Pete

I was wondering last night about the correct way to deal with silly people who are convinced that they're right and you're wrong when it's really obvious to everyone else that you're right and they're wrong. I was really giving it a lot of thought, but couldn't come up with a satisfactory answer.

Then, I woke up this morning and read these comments and couldn't keep from laughing despite the wisdom-tooth pain, and realised that laughing at them is a wholly effective solution. Ta-daaaa!

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I went to the small venue concert recently in Denver and Billy, Jimmy and crew are back with a vengance. They make Metallica look like one hit wonders. Pumpkins fans, you know what I'm talking about. Andrew, you suck.

chris

Andrew = toolish tooling tool.

Josh

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