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Billy Corgan: Spears Through the HeartIn the fall of 2000, Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan was asked what had caused the band to agree to break up at the end of the year. "It's hard to keep trying to fight the good fight," Corgan replied, "against the Britneys."
[An allusion, of course, to the trashy pop produced by the likes of Britney Spears and other teen-targeted musicians.]
Corgan, Billy (1967- ) American musician, former Smashing Pumpkins frontman [noted for such works as Gish (1991), Siamese Dream (1993), Pisces Iscariot (1994), Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness (1995), Adore (1998), and MACHINA / the machines of God (2000)]
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