About Christina Expertise Little details and things that may be totally insignificant for some people, but they mean a lot to me. for example: Spaceboy was written about/for Billy's younger brother, Jesse, who has a rare genetic disorder. Thats rather common SP knowledge, but it's an example. Also, I know most lyrics off by heart to most SP songs, and stuff like that. Ask me pretty much anything about SP. I will most likely have the answer!
Expert: Christina Date: 3/18/2006 Subject: I have a 1979 question.
Question I'm doing a photography project. I'm using the song 1979 and illustrating it through photography and I was wondering what in the world are zipper blues? If you know..or if you have a suggestion for what I could photograph that would be amazing.
Thanks.
Sarah
Answer Hi there,
Billy Corgan often writes lyrics that are vague analogies or metaphors, or strings together words that sound good together; therefore they often make no sense to anyone but him. That is, unless someone applies their own meaning to it. If you do a google search for it, various people have interpreted it in different ways. One says it relates to drug addiction, another says it means sexual frustration. I couldn't find it in the Urban Dictionary, and most of the Google hits are references to 1979, so I'm assuming this is a case where Billy has invented the phrase. But perhaps it was already a term for something. I would suggest using your own interpretation.
If I may offer a bit of advice on your project...feel free to take it or leave it...I go to University for fine art photography, and have used the Pumpkins as influences for a few bodies of work. Art professors tend to enjoy it when people use music as inspiration for work, but they prefer it when you don't simply illustrate the images used in the lyrics. If you try to convey the emotion in the song/lyrics with an object or scene that relates to your own personal life, profs see this as much more artistic.
