Try, Try, Try
ATN: In "Pop Tart" there's that line, "Pop Tart, what's our mission? Do we know? Do we listen?" It's almost like you're saying, 'I know the people listening to this know who I am.' They know I've fired a drummer, had a bassist leave, and I've had all these non-music life things happen.
Corgan: It's like being at a carnival. You can focus on the fat woman with the beard ... I know and hopefully at this point you know, there's deeper rivers underneath this. As I've always said, in Pumpkinland nothing is ever as it seems. The more I seem like a goof, the more I'm playing you for a fool, and the more I seem untouchable, the more reachable I am. It's become pretty obvious over 13 years that our work has become a mirror reflecting and fucking people's perceptions.
ATN: Has it felt like that? The water was up to there?
Corgan: It does get like that, I think, personally, that's your own impression of what's going on in the world. The fact of the matter is, outside our little jack-off world, I don't think most people give a fuck. I think this is all for our own amusement. It's playing off consciousness, but at the same time, I think those songs are going to translate to some 15-year-old little kid in Brazil who couldn't care less about me and my tortured past.
ATN: In a different way?
Corgan: Absolutely. Believe me, I've got better things to write about than my career, that's for sure.
-3/00 ATN
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According to Corgan, the Taylor acoustics were essential for one of the many studio tricks employed on the album. "We would run the signal from the acoustic guitarl throguh a cheap casette tape recorder and into the mixer. Doing this overloads the signal and creates a tone somewhere between an acoustic and an electric guitar. It sounds pretty cool on its own, but when it's set within the mix, it fills the tonal gap between an acoustic and an electric guitar. It's there on "Try,Try,Try' although you'd never hear it among all the guitars. You feel it, though; It's totally a harmonic thing."
-Guitar World 4/2000