Billy Corgan may not necessarily agree with Donald Trump’s politics, but the Smashing Pumpkins frontman is a fan of what he called Trump’s “chaos theory” campaign.
Corgan spoke about Trump’s Republican Presidential Debate performance last month at a VIP Q&A in Cincinnati and, as Alternative Nation reports, he outlined a few things he thinks are “cool” about how it played out.
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“I think what’s cool — and I’m not saying I agree politically — but I think what’s cool is Trump’s running chaos theory,” Corgan said. “He’s forcing a lot of things out into the open, so they can’t control this, whatever that control is. It’s like the music business, everybody gets controlled, and somebody comes along that fucks it all up.
“So I think it’s good that he’s f–king it up, because whether or not he’s the guy, obviously the political class doesn’t want him there, it’ll open it up to a bigger dialog. Just like rock and roll, it gets boring and it needs to be – I mean look, whether anybody agrees or not, the rating on that debate was 24 million. It was 8 times higher than the first Republican debate of the last cycle. It was highest non-sports related cable rating of all time. That means people are engaged.”
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When asked whether people are engaged just because it’s “entertainment,” Corgan replied, “Who cares? I would argue at this point is there any difference between politics and entertainment? Is there any difference at this point between music and entertainment? I don’t think there’s any difference any more.”
See a snippet of the Q&A here: