Billy Corgan has always shown an admirable commitment to random shit, but I don't think he's done anything quite this high on the "wait, what" scale since he dated Tila Tequila. At a Paris show over the weekend, Corgan and his Smashing Pumpkins played a rocked-up and virtually unlistenable cover of David Bowie's 1975 almost-funk classic "Fame." The band covered "Fame" a few weeks ago, and it was not good, but this time they found a way to make it worse. Ninja from South African novelty shock-rappers Die Antwoord sat in, doing the weird falsetto backing-vocal parts and then rapping a verse that I really hope was improvised. Ninja wore a suit and Corgan wore, I think, a bowling shirt. It was terrible. Watch it below.
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(via Pitchfork)
The Smashing Pumpkins' new album Monuments To An Elegy is out now on Martha's Music, and it's considerably better than what you just watched.
