The Smashing Pumpkins Songs

Summary “Ava Adore” is a dark, theatrical, and obsessive love song that explores a dangerously codependent and contradictory relationship. The song’s core meaning is a deep dive into the “madonna-whore complex,” where the narrator simultaneously idealizes his lover as a pure, divine figure (“adore,” “mother”) and degrades her as a debased object (“whore”). This is … Read more