Billy Corgan finds new ways to sell his soul to the man

The question is whether he actually drives the Hyundai. Does Dylan drive a Cadillac?

I was about to comment, but first I want to buy some Doritos, American Apparel, and JustMetal titanium.

my oh my...

Actually, the first step was calling Billy and Jimmy "Smashing Pumpkins."

Dude, he was in a Ford ad years ago. It's not a particularly new way for him to sell his soul, though I'm impressed you think he still has one.

So Cat Power does a couple commercials and no problem. Arcade Fire sells a song to Benjamin Button and no one says anything bad. But Billy tries to make some money and everyone jumps down his throat. I don't get it...

I think it's mostly that the song was written for the commercial that irks me, I probably should have noted that in the story. I have less of a problem with popular songs being used in commercials.

Oh my God, the audacity of the man. He's making money from his work???!!!!!!! Whore!

All you bastards yelling at Billy for making a buck, screw you. You know you would have done the same exact thing. I guess Wilco selling SEVEN songs to VW wasn't a big deal? Frankly, I think Billy is doing a smart thing. No one plays rock on the radio or MTV anymore (music even?) so how else do you get new songs and ideas out? Commercials. What's the biggest commercial play? Super Bowl. You haters are the small-minded idiots, not Billy.

I must say though, as a long time fan and defender of Corgan, I am a bit disappointed. I was ok with the Guitar Hero deal. Writing a song specifically for a car advertisement may be appropriate for some music genres, but I would think alternative rock/"American Gothic" would want to distance itself from commercialism. I do hope they hit the road again soon

We get a free song
Hyundai pays for it
SP makes a living
How is this bad ???

dont listen to it then, morons!

The most important thing to Billy Corgan is getting his music out there. It is not wrong to license your song to a commercial. If you think this is selling out then every artist that put their song in a movies or on television is selling out. Tell me one artist that does not license their songs out. I can't believe the type of people they have writing these articles, just take a random artist, and bitch about them while doing no research. Is the writer of this article making money from writing, if so, how dare him, what a sell out.

blly hit on me last night at this club i go to all the time.
i told him to get away from me.
i also told him his music stinks.
and i also said that the pumpkins were never an important band.
his breath also stunk.

true story.

George Carlin was the most anti-capitalist, anti-establishment, anti-everything I know and I adored him for it.

Clearly one of the greatest inquisitive and brilliant free thinkers we have seen in long ... but he was also Mr.Conductor (in Shining Times Station kids show, Played in Jersey Girl (yeah!) and did 10-10-220 long distance commercials.

To quote the man "you're just gonna have to deal with it, ok?!".

Corgan has nothing left to prove ... he just loves music and is struggling to be a relevant 40 year old rock hero. Struggling to innovate within the realm of whats comfortable to him while still reaching for the outskirts of his mind, soul, talent.

If we could only have musicians this enthusiastic about music, we'd be spared a lot of the garbage out there.

Take the whole "sell out" crap and put it aside for a sec. How many musicians have written the amount of music that Billy has? You can argue all you want about whether or not it's any good, but that all subjective. I love it and I know there are millions of other people that love it. I could care less about what he does to make money, why does that even matter? I don’t care about who he hangs out with. I don’t care about what kind of toothpaste he buys and uses. I only care about the music that he makes. I might not connect with him on any other level, but I connect with him there. Did any of the songs magically change when he committed the sin of "selling out"? No! The only thing that changed was the perception of those songs. If your view of music can be swayed so easily, maybe you don’t like actual music as much as this “ideal” of what music should be.

Bring it back to the basics. Bring it back to Music, the thing that is supposed to matter. Billy is one of the greatest musicians of our time. You don't have to like him or his music to appreciate that fact. Billy can be a hypocrite, a liar, a sellout or whatever, but you can’t undo the fact that he’s created more music than almost any other artist of our age.

Go here for a discography and you'll see what I mean:
http://www.spfc.org/songs-releases/song.html?song_type=-1&song_display=