'Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness'

On the Smashing Pumpkins' 1995 release Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, lead singer Billy Corgan growls:

"Emptiness is loneliness, and loneliness is cleanlinessAnd cleanliness is godliness, and god is empty just like me"

This lyric doesn't make any sense. How is loneliness like cleanliness? And does his ascertion that "god is empty just like me" equate him to be kind of a slob?

It's bullshit lyrics attempting to incite some kind of spiritual and cultural riot amongst his peers that bills Corgan and his bandmates as frauds and dime-store intellectuals found on any corner or intersection of a major city.

Mellon Collie ... is an awful album that not only signaled the end of the band, but signaled the end of the Smashing Pumpkins as a rock band. It's a double album that could've been easily edited down to a single, 13-song album, as soon as they cut out all of the piano-pop bullshit.

The Pumpkins had only one iota of value for me and that was as a rock band. Once they ceased to do that, they ceased to have value for me.

But back to their bankruptcy as artists, Corgan (I would include the rest of the band ... but, let's face it, they had as much input into the recording process as I did) is in the same group as Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and a handful of others. Somehow, they captured some kind of madness of the time and parlayed it into some kind of celebrity and idol worship.

Corgan wishes he were a poet. Instead, he's a hack rock singer. His pining for the former illegitimizes his role as the latter.