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Buzzing with multiple and unique guitar tones and anamorphic vocal effects, “Love” plays as if the song has declared war on its subject. Corgan plows through a soundscape that feels deceptive, singing piercingly sincere vocals in what seems like a conscious attack on romantic love.
Indeed, these nihilistic tones seem to often undermine the hopeful idealism throughout ”Melon Collie” as a whole. “Tonight, Tonight,”, arguably the most hopeful song found on the album, still contains at least one line hinting at the loss of innocence: “The more you change the less you feel.”
“Love” is described in the liner notes below first as the type of love “wherever sex is applied as cause and effect” and later as “an unrelenting god that won’t let go until you are spent.” Indeed, love can be dubious and clever in the worst kind of way.
In a revealing 1998 interview with Switch Magazine, songwriter Billy Corgan was asked first what sex meant to him: “It doesn’t interest me, I can reject it.” He was then asked what love meant to him: “I don’t reject love. Love is what you are, love is suicide.”
"A straight up blues where I moan and drone on about the confusing complexities of l-o-v-e wherever sex is applied as cause and effect. The word ‘love’ is used low here, for if in being lucky and used lowly enough love too becomes a useful device in the high arts of illumination. Straight up the song rocked, but by smearing the voice and cyber-afflxing the drums it takes on a mocking tone that distracts from the very real fear hidden in it. Vagina Dentata. Love represented here is both oppressive and inescapable; an unrelenting God that won’t let go until you are spent and hollowed o-u-t."
- Billy Corgan, 2012 Reissue Liner Notes
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