Billy Corgan thinks that metal music is looked down upon by rich people and hipsters
“We didn’t necessarily go to the nice school, we didn’t get to read the cool newspaper. For me, bands like you [Metallica] told me that there is this other world that is more closely aligned with the experience that you’re having, than the one you’re being told about” - Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan told Beats1 Radio for another edition of It’s Electric by Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich, when he looked back on the music that shaped him in his youth.
"Even to this day, for all the money that metal moves, it’s amazing how disrespected it is.” The frontman went on to add that part of the reason for the discrimination may be not to be associated with the various subcultures and ‘undesirables’ involved in the scene. “You can’t get that through to a hipster’s brain,”. NME
