Hooligan

"Hooligan" is the sixth track from Act I of The Smashing Pumpkins' 2022 rock opera, ATUM.

Corgan has likened the song to his younger years as a prospective professional musician, where he was doing something "dangerous" or risky, and although he wasn't sure why this is, he still enjoyed it.

The song is about Osyraa identifying as a hooligan. She's the subversive target and she kind of likes it.

Synopsis
"With Ado I Do" is the long lost song by Shiny that was sent to Earth by his fellow exile and admirer June. That song was heard on Earth by a hacker named Osyraa. She did not have much of a response to the song, but nevertheless felt compelled to do something about it considering it seemed to have so much meaning. Osyraa begins to realize she has become an important figure in the story of Shiny. As Billy Corgan described it, "she finds for the first time in her life that she has a value outside herself."

Osyraa is bridging the communication about Shiny from June to the people of Earth, and she knows this information is banned, considering Shiny had been wiped from all digital footprints on Earth when he was exiled. This gives her somewhat of a rebellious feeling. Especially given she is a hacker, she knows she is in some way doing something illegal. The larger issue however is that she is getting herself involved in something far more ominous than she thinks, but the subversiveness of the idea seems rebellious and she's attracted to that. "Hooligan" is the song describing her emotions.