Listen to any random musician giving an award acceptance speech and there’s about a 9/10 chance you will hear that artist thanking their fans, perhaps even saying they couldn’t have “done it” without them. I’ve gotta say, that’s always puzzled me. I’ve never been sure how that ended up in the cookie-cutter award speech template. I would like to go on record as saying that I do not thank my fans for a single thing, I do not need them, and if anything they should be thanking me more.
This is woke, snowflake, everybody-gets-a-trophy culture at its absolute worst. You need me to thank you? For MY music? The music I gave you to enjoy that couldn’t have possibly made yourself in a million years? Oh thank you fans, thank you SO MUCH for ALLOWING ME to give you the GIFT that is my songwriting!
It’s bad enough I have to deal with James Iha getting credit for MY guitar work, or having Darcy spread a bunch of lies about me and then verifying them with screengrabs of texts I sent her, now I’m expected to lie that my fans had any hand in the music I’ve created? Oh, because it’s “polite?” I’m sorry, but everything I’ve created was created by me alone, that’s what makes it special, and if you can’t handle that truth, you’re a fucking snowflake.
As far as I’m concerned, The Smashing Pumpkins could just be me, alone on a stage performing some of the most beautiful music of this century to a completely empty arena. It’s not like anyone else knows how to properly enjoy my music anyway—I wrote it, that makes me the best at listening to it. I suppose I need fans to buy concert tickets and t-shirts, but honestly if there was a way for me to just buy all that stuff and still make money I would, in a heartbeat.
If you’re a Smashing Pumpkins fan, congratulations, you’ve got two ears that work the way God intended them to. It’s not, however, something you deserve thanks or appreciation for. In fact, you know what, you’re fired. You’re a toxic drug addict, and I don’t need you even listening to this band. Have fun crawling back to your safe spaces, I’ll be in the studio creating masterpieces, after hours of course, where no one can complain about me re-recording their parts or make direct eye contact.