Billy Corgan on past claims he didn’t “get the credit” for creating the landscape for bands like Muse

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Billy Corgan has addressed his previous claims he didn’t “get the credit” for being the creator of the musical landscape for bands such as Muse.Back in 2015 while speaking to Gigwise, the Smashing Pumpkins legend opened up about how he felt that he didn’t get the respect he deserved as a musician.“I wrote more hits than anybody of my generation, and I am not seen as a songwriter,” he said at the time. “I helped launch a bunch of people playing in guitar bands, Muse being a perfect example.”Corgan continued: “I don’t get credit for that.

I broke different styles into the alternative pop mainstream with strings and all sorts of stuff, I don’t get credit for that.

I’m more treated like this weird uncle who no one understands why he’s at Thanksgiving. I’m just tired of that story. It’s not a mistake that I am still here making music.

I don’t know how else to say that and my music is the only way I can say that.”The rock icon has now looked back on those comments as part of a recent interview with NME, where he also spoke about his new podcast The Magnificent Others.“Well, let me say this, first of all, Muse is an incredible band,” he told NME. “I think I was just being a bit sour about it all, but nothing to do with them – more just feeling a little bit pushed aside by the way it was being viewed by the media and, at times, the public.“Honestly, that’s not something I’m proud of, because I just think it’s kind of cheesy to run around and point and say, ‘Hey, remember me, the guy at the end of the bar?’ So setting all that aside, I do feel it’s taken some time, but people are starting to figure out what we did do.”He added that he now chooses to stay out of all of that, explaining that “it’s better left to fans and whoever to.