"Freak" | ||||
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![]() Promotional CD-R of "Freak" | ||||
Single by The Smashing Pumpkins | ||||
from the album Teargarden by Kaleidyscope | ||||
Released | 2010 | |||
Recorded | 2009–2010 | |||
Genre | Alternative rock | |||
Length | 3:51 | |||
Label | Martha's Music / Rocket Science | |||
Songwriter(s) | Billy Corgan | |||
The Smashing Pumpkins singles chronology | ||||
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"Freak" (also titled as "Freak U.S.A.") is the second single from The Smashing Pumpkins's 34-track music project, Teargarden by Kaleidyscope, and the first song released for the second accompanying EP The Solstice Bare. Like all other songs on the EP, "Freak" was released as a free download on their official website. [1] The song was first played live on July 24, 2009, at the first Spirits in the Sky show in memoriam of Sky Saxon. [2] It was performed live by the Pumpkins throughout their 2010 tours. [3]
Spin praised the song, noting that "the catchy chorus of bright guitars and cheerful na na na na nas recall his short-lived pop-rock side-project Zwan; the heavy, distorted bass lines revisit the goth-rock moments of Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness; and his lyrics are all early-Pumpkins." [4] PopMatters's reviewed that "Freak" "largely explores and builds on The Smashing Pumpkins’ earlier, mid-1990s sound while also very subtly hinting at the newly pointed and cultish, lysergic musical atmosphere." [5]
Chart (2010) | Peak position |
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US Alternative Airplay ( Billboard) [6] | 27 |
"Freak" | ||||
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![]() Promotional CD-R of "Freak" | ||||
Single by The Smashing Pumpkins | ||||
from the album Teargarden by Kaleidyscope | ||||
Released | 2010 | |||
Recorded | 2009–2010 | |||
Genre | Alternative rock | |||
Length | 3:51 | |||
Label | Martha's Music / Rocket Science | |||
Songwriter(s) | Billy Corgan | |||
The Smashing Pumpkins singles chronology | ||||
|
"Freak" (also titled as "Freak U.S.A.") is the second single from The Smashing Pumpkins's 34-track music project, Teargarden by Kaleidyscope, and the first song released for the second accompanying EP The Solstice Bare. Like all other songs on the EP, "Freak" was released as a free download on their official website. [1] The song was first played live on July 24, 2009, at the first Spirits in the Sky show in memoriam of Sky Saxon. [2] It was performed live by the Pumpkins throughout their 2010 tours. [3]
Spin praised the song, noting that "the catchy chorus of bright guitars and cheerful na na na na nas recall his short-lived pop-rock side-project Zwan; the heavy, distorted bass lines revisit the goth-rock moments of Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness; and his lyrics are all early-Pumpkins." [4] PopMatters's reviewed that "Freak" "largely explores and builds on The Smashing Pumpkins’ earlier, mid-1990s sound while also very subtly hinting at the newly pointed and cultish, lysergic musical atmosphere." [5]
Chart (2010) | Peak position |
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US Alternative Airplay ( Billboard) [6] | 27 |