SPCodex:Social media/Beguiled
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The song is sung from the perspective of the Authoritarian of the story, known as the X+I. Corgan described them as relaying propaganda to the masses: "'Trust the message'. At the height of the pandemic, we kept saying trust the science. Having been in public life for 35 years, anytime anyone asks you to trust them, that's when I run. So it's a little bit like somebody saying, if you just have faith in what we stand for, everything will be fine." Within the ATUM story, the song is sung by Dr. Aesh, with The X+I singing the chorus.
The guitar riff for "Beguiled" came to fruition very early in the ATUM demo sessions. Corgan said "we never changed the tempo, which is very, very rare. Almost always you speed things up or whatever. But there's something about it being so slow that we just never changed. And that's probably the only thing on the entire record that didn't go through some sort of metamorphosis."
A live performance video debuted on a TikTok stream on September 19, 2022, and was formally released the next day. The video was directed by long-time band creative partner, Linda Strawberry. Similarly to the "Ava Adore" video, "Beguiled" was shot in one take, although its debut was streamed directly live as opposed to filmed and edited post-production. The video features a mix of live band performance, artists, dancers and various friends and family of the band such as Chloe Mendel her and Corgan's children, Frank Catalano, and members of NWA.
Billboard called the song a "chugging, Black Sabbath-like single". NME described it as "the swaggering, all-guns-blazing 'Beguiled', which sees the Pumpkins return to their gritty, guitar-led sound," while Guitar World wrote that it "is a four-to-the-floor riffer that rarely lets up in its barrage of palm-muted chugs" and that it was "in the vein of classic Pumpkins cut Zero."
"Beguiled" was a hit in the US, reaching #7 on the Rock Airplay chart – the band's first top 10 hit since 2007's "Tarantula". It also reached #12 on the Alternative Airplay chart, and #25 on Canada's Rock chart.
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The song is sung from the perspective of the Authoritarian of the story, known as the X+I. Corgan described them as relaying propaganda to the masses: "'Trust the message'. At the height of the pandemic, we kept saying trust the science. Having been in public life for 35 years, anytime anyone asks you to trust them, that's when I run. So it's a little bit like somebody saying, if you just have faith in what we stand for, everything will be fine." Within the ATUM story, the song is sung by Dr. Aesh, with The X+I singing the chorus.
The guitar riff for "Beguiled" came to fruition very early in the ATUM demo sessions. Corgan said "we never changed the tempo, which is very, very rare. Almost always you speed things up or whatever. But there's something about it being so slow that we just never changed. And that's probably the only thing on the entire record that didn't go through some sort of metamorphosis."
A live performance video debuted on a TikTok stream on September 19, 2022, and was formally released the next day. The video was directed by long-time band creative partner, Linda Strawberry. Similarly to the "Ava Adore" video, "Beguiled" was shot in one take, although its debut was streamed directly live as opposed to filmed and edited post-production. The video features a mix of live band performance, artists, dancers and various friends and family of the band such as Chloe Mendel her and Corgan's children, Frank Catalano, and members of NWA.
Billboard called the song a "chugging, Black Sabbath-like single". NME described it as "the swaggering, all-guns-blazing 'Beguiled', which sees the Pumpkins return to their gritty, guitar-led sound," while Guitar World wrote that it "is a four-to-the-floor riffer that rarely lets up in its barrage of palm-muted chugs" and that it was "in the vein of classic Pumpkins cut Zero."
"Beguiled" was a hit in the US, reaching #7 on the Rock Airplay chart – the band's first top 10 hit since 2007's "Tarantula". It also reached #12 on the Alternative Airplay chart, and #25 on Canada's Rock chart.
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