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Trent Reznor and Billy Corgan can't stand millennials

by Richard Howard

Trent Reznor and Billy Corgan are perhaps best known for two things: topping the charts in the 90s with their bands Nine Inch Nails and Smashing Pumpkins and shaking their fists at young whipper-snappers today. In the last week, both have gone on tirades against the youth of day, each staying true to their respective rant styles.

While it occasionally shits on an entire generation, Reznor’s extensive interview with Yahoo raised some good points.

And Corgan? Naturally, he went with his tried and true “possibly-slightly-senile-guy-making-a-meandering-denouncement-about-something-or-the-other-wrong-with-the-world-today” approach. While filming his web series Thirty Days, in which he embarks on a road trip “to see if the American culture that I recognized as being a part of was still there,” the man who once decried “the hashtag generation” discussed how the mainstream media and the world in general have gone downhill since he was a youngin. At least, we think that’s what he was discussing (starts around the 2:10 mark).

Uh, okay. And no word of a lie, right after that he actually said classic grandpa phrase “it’s hard work, roll up the sleeves time.”

To give some context, the “yesterday” he was referring to was the day of president-elect Trump’s first news conference, during which the President elect refused to talk to CNN because they “are fake news.” Corgan also had some iron-clad logic for you suckers that might think there’s some truth to the leaked Pee-Pee POTUS documents in question: “I hate to make the most obvious point: If you’ve got 10 billion dollars, you’re not hiring hookers.”

Thanks, Billy. We’d be lost withoutcha.