Smashing Pumpkins’ reunion album debuts at No. 54 on Billboard charts. Is this the worst comeback album of the year?
At the turn of 2018, Smashing Pumpkins jumped on the bandwagon of the recent wave of 90s comeback acts. Well, technically it wasn't really a comeback considering they put out their last album 'Monuments to an Elegy' in 2014, but there was a unique angle to make it qualify - the Pumpkins were going to bring back their stellar original lineup of Billy Corgan, James Iha, Jimmy Chamberlain and D'Arcy Wretzky for the first time in two decades. However, things didn't exactly go as planned for the 90s alt-rockers.
The first sign of trouble came earlier this February, when former bassist D'Arcy Wretzky accused frontman Billy Corgan of manipulation and rescinding an offer to be part of the band’s reunion. A bitter game of he-said-she-said followed in the coming days which snowballed into a PR nightmare for the band as Wretzky started sharing texts between her and Corgan online to prove a point.