“Perfect” by The Smashing Pumpkins

"Perfect" was the second single from Adore, the Smashing Pumpkins' 1998 album, arriving on September 7, and it's the record's sunniest moment. Billy Corgan wrote and produced it and set it gliding on a synth-pop shimmer that Rolling Stone heard as an echo of the 1996 hit "1979". Joey Waronker plays the drums, and Corgan mixed it with Flood and Robbie Adams.

The video made the family resemblance official, picking up the story of the characters from the "1979" clip, with four of the five original actors back, Giuseppe Andrews among them, and the same husband-and-wife directors, Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, on their fifth and last job for the band. It was Adore's last commercial single; "Crestfallen" and "To Sheila" followed only as promos.

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