The Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan has taken to Instagram to explain to his fans why he couldn’t be the father of Taylor Swift, summing up his thoughts in a sprawling two-part essay.
No matter how you slice it, Billy Corgan has led a pretty interesting life. From fronting one of the most iconic rock groups of the ’90s, taking part in brilliant reunions, to supposedly seeing aliens, the bloke has ticked boxes many could only dream of. However, he’s now done us all a solid by penning a two-part essay explaining why he’s not the father of international pop superstar Taylor Swift.
Taking to Instagram yesterday, Corgan posted an image from TotallyLooksLike.com which presents two lookalikes for side-by-side comparison.
“You have to love the Internets. Seems this is a new meme going around (someone sent this to me) where I guess the question is(?): Is T Swift my child. Hmm…” he begins.
“I’ll take the compliment of the comparison here despite the fact that I guess the jokes on me? (and not the lovely and talented Miss Swift) Which becomes a good starting point back into where I left off last time; on notions of image/self-esteem/God/and self-love. But before I do let me express how I continue to be blown away by the number of messages I am receiving regarding these issues.”
“There simply is no end to how many are struggling, and it seems to have some connection to this modern or Digital Age culture we are living in. Where what’s real is just as relevant, or so it appears, as to what is constructed, fake or false. Where a real you must negotiate time-space next to the more shiny or dark social media avatar of you, and so on and so forth up the food chain of governments and endless celebrity. Each tier of human life augmented to the point where what you no longer know what, or whom, to believe in; including God.”
Amazingly, while the simple phrase “no” would have been perfectly sufficient, Billy Corgan keeps on going, bringing up a multitude of topics which all seem to revolve around the notion that he – as we know him – does not exist.
“And for those new to the game, it is easiest for me to speak of my own experience,” he continues. “So please consider that I do so as illustration. Take from it as you will… There is NO such person as ‘Billy Corgan’. He (BC) does not exist. Or, if he does exist (per these times), he is a creation from my mind to yours, and no different than a cartoon drawing of Batman or Sponge Bob.”
“Trace the route: from 1967 to 1985 I was Bill Corgan, born WPC. My father was known to us as Billy, so he does exist, but the ‘Billy’ I speak of, the one who made records with SP and appeared on chat shows, was a creation. And I still remember the day around age 18 when I told someone, ‘don’t call me Bill anymore. I am Billy now…'”
“Now why would I do such a thing? Because Bill, or Little Bill as I was known to the family, was beaten, harassed, broken and discarded over so many years, and in so many separate instances (let’s say the number of disassociative events is in the thousands) that he (Bill) was WORTHLESS to me.”
“But Billy Corgan, a construct of my own making, with a different walk, haircut, and even eyes that I purposely changed (from fully open to ovals half closed, like those of a snake), he was a new being around which I could invent any story as I pleased. And look no further than Bob Dylan’s transformation from Robert Zimmerman (albeit for different reasons) as example. Like him, I simply invented myself anew.”
“So last thing for today,” he eventually concludes. “And it’s something I told the NY Times (in a thought I believe that was not printed): -You can keep Billy Corgan, he is dead, and he’s there for you to mock and use as you wish.”
While Billy Corgan’s writings here are often times rambling, they are nonetheless confronting, as he speaks of his childhood, waxes lyrical on God, and compares ‘Billy Corgan’ as we know him to Batman and Spongebob Squarepants.
However, if you haven’t got the time to sit back and read Corgan’s essay, the basic gist of it is that he can’t be Taylor Swift’s dad because he doesn’t actually exist. No matter how you look at it, you can’t say the guy isn’t thorough.
Check out Billy Corgan on The Smashing Pumpkins’ ‘1979’:
