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 {{Cquote|I was feeling really sad one morning. I got up, wrote the song. We went in that day and did it in three hours. What you're hearing is what I felt that day.|author=Billy Corgan|source=The Soft Parade, Rolling Stone, March 1998}}
-== Background ==
+== Background and recording ==
-[[Billy Corgan]] wrote the entire song in roughly 20 minutes on one morning, and the final take was recorded later that day in the studio. While the song came to him quickly, Corgan believes the energy he was feeling was accurately captured in the recording. This was not from a place of pain as it may lyrically come across, but rather a state of contemplation of how to respond to his mother's recent death in the aftermath of the success of ''[[Mellon Collie]]'', as was the case for much of the songs on ''Adore''.<ref name="podcast">{{Cite podcast|url=https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-thirty-three-with-william-101982283/episode/the-culling-with-william-patrick-corgan-108083390/|title=The Culling (with William Patrick Corgan)|work=[[Thirty-Three (podcast)|Thirty-Three]]|first=Billy|last=Corgan|access-date=February 26, 2023}}</ref>
+[[Billy Corgan]] wrote the entire song in roughly 20 minutes on one morning, and the final take was recorded later that day in the studio. Given by now [[Jimmy Chamberlin]] had left the band and a drum machine was instead used on the song, Corgan considers "Shame" as one of the final recordings of the "original band", referring to the time when they used a drum machine prior to Chamberlin joining. Just as they recorded in those early days, Corgan, [[James Iha]] and [[D'arcy Wretzky]] sat in a semi-circle to record the song. Corgan considers the song a "way of saying goodbye" to that version of the band.<ref name="podcast">{{Cite podcast|url=https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-thirty-three-with-william-101982283/episode/the-culling-with-william-patrick-corgan-108083390/|title=The Culling (with William Patrick Corgan)|work=[[Thirty-Three (podcast)|Thirty-Three]]|first=Billy|last=Corgan|access-date=February 26, 2023}}</ref>
-Given by now [[Jimmy Chamberlin]] had left the band and a drum machine was instead used on the song, Corgan considers "Shame" as one of the final recordings of the "original band", referring to the time when they used a drum machine prior to Chamberlin joining. Just as they recorded in those early days, Corgan, [[James Iha]] and [[D'arcy Wretzky]] sat in a semi-circle to record the song. Corgan considers the song a "way of saying goodbye" to that version of the band.<ref name="podcast" />
+While the song came to him quickly, Corgan believes the energy he was feeling was accurately captured in the recording. The song was not written from a place of pain, as it may seem lyrically, but rather a state of contemplation following his mother's recent death, the death of [[Jonathan Melvoin]] and Chamberlin's depature, as well as the pressure following the massive success of ''[[Mellon Collie]]''. Corgan had also just went through a divorce, followed by a rough breakup of a short-lived relationship with nearly the same dynamic he had with his ex-wife. Thus, he experienced "shame" in that he found himself humiliated to be back in the same toxic situation he tried so hard to escape before.<ref name="podcast" /> The lyric "don't let them get to you" may refer to the pressure he felt from the public to produce a quality album despite these hardships.
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