Billy Corgan on John Mayer: “He’s Trying to Destroy His Career”
Photo: Bedder/WireImage (Mayer), Mayer/WireImage(Corgan)
After reading John Mayer’s controversial recent interviews, Billy Corgan is convinced Mayer is trying to self-destruct. “He’s trying to destroy his career,” Corgan told Rolling Stone’s Brian Hiatt in an interview outtake from RS‘ revealing new Corgan feature in the new issue, on sale now. “Rather than take a year off or change his musical direction… some part of it is irritating his soul to the point where he’s trying to blow it up. Certainly a talented guy, but empathetically, standing on the sidelines, it’s hard to watch someone literally burn their career to the ground — speaking as somebody who’s done it.”
Corgan also responded to Mayer’s comments on their mutual friend Jessica Simpson (”sexual napalm,” Mayer called her). “As far as it pertains to her. I think for any person who has celebrity to sort of drop rocks at somebody else’s feet like that — there’s things you should really just keep your mouths shut on. There’s things that should just be left alone.”
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Did he not mention in a article or interview last year that he had seven bad girlfriends in a row. Considering some of his girlfriends were quite public didnt he do the exact same thing?
I wont even get into how much crap he talks about his ex-band members. But i will point out he just lost two more.
John Mayer who…..
Billy is the perfect person to speak about what Mayer is doing. More than some of you are.
Mayer is garbage and his pr team is trying to clean up his droppings. That’s why the Internet is swapped with Mayer’s pr posters.
Good thing Mayer pays a big Pr team.
opinions are like ass holes
brown and fuzzy
Why do we even care……
Billy who?
Sorry kids, in the history of rock music Smashing Pumpkins won’t even merit a footnote.
Cat fight!
Not trying to be a dick, but to those who say that his only two “masterpieces” are Siamese Dream and MCIS, I have to question how much of their stuff you’ve even heard! How about Gish, which stands toe-to-toe with Siamese, or the criminally-underrated Adore? Machina I or II? Pisces Iscariot? The Aeroplane Flies High box set? The guy has an insane amount of talent but christ, if you stopped giving a shit fifteen years ago then shut up about it already! Lol!
As for this, I don’t see where Billy is suddenly an expert on the matter? Stick to music, Billy!
Shame on Rolling Stone for attempting to incite petty drama and instigate unnecessary feuds. Welcome to MTV – where music no longer matters.
John Mayer is a shooting star. I remember seeing a photo of him in RS about him clubbing out somewhere in NYC and before I managed to read a word, I thought I’m seeing ‘67 era Jim Morrison. A real poser acting it out.