![]() ![]() I'm here to be, to stave the dream with you. Don't ever set on our love, as our love has begun. THE SMASHING PUMPKINS: (Singing) It's morning to good morning. So the second song in the musical, The "Butterfly Suite," that's her kind of daily love song in an old Hollywood musical way. He doesn't know this person, but she's from a wealthy family, so she puts herself next to him in space where she can kind of keep tabs on him, even if it's sort of an emotional sense that at least somebody is there for him. THE SMASHING PUMPKINS: (Singing) Who sweeps the squalid rain to scan through pinks and gray?ĬORGAN: So June is a fan or an acolyte who is obsessed with Shiny. He's basically given an option, which is rather than put you in a jail and let you languish away, we're willing to put you in space in a spacecraft for one, and that's where you'll spend the rest of your days. He doesn't have a lot of cultural or social significance, but for whatever reason, he represents a threat to a global order which doesn't necessarily want any dissonant voices. What is Shiny doing here?ĬORGAN: Well, the contrivance of the narrative is that he's an artist whose - maybe his best days are past him. SIMON: And here we meet Shiny, the banished rock star. Opera begins with an instrumental piece that sort of takes us into the vastness of space. Hey, hey, as they say at Wrigley Field.īILLY CORGAN: Hello, sir. Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan joins us now from Los Angeles. SIMON: The Chicago band has been making powerful and complex rock for decades. (SOUNDBITE OF THE SMASHING PUMPKINS' "ATUM") The group just released the final act of a 33-song rock opera called "ATUM." Few rock bands are as prolific, dynamic and ambitious as The Smashing Pumpkins.
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