Was Iggy Pop EVER cool? With his disturbingly topless antics does anyone really give a crap about Mr. “Lust For Life”, and hey how many of you can name another Iggy or Stooges song off the top of your head?
Iggy Pop is a pint sized power house who has withstood the test of time for some reason- but a reason I just don’t get. Most likely because he is so incredibly in love with him self that the power of ego is like a jet pack to legend. Urban legend though- lets discuss his achievements.
Ok now that that’s over. Iggy is in the press again with words of wisdom and stories of days gone by. He spoke with Classic Rock magazine and rambled on about a boat load of nothing- but there were some insights to the Stooge that well illustrate my point. His self love is contagious, this is how he pays the bills. Iggy and The Stooges are back in a second revival and theyre old and tired and cliche’ and what bothers me most is he now is quite arrogant about the one thing that got him fame to begin with, Punk Rock. Often called the ‘godfather of punk’ (what knob coined that one?) he dismisses it here:
“[Industry suits] have to think in boxes. They have to have a place to put me to reference the whole thing. And they think they have to explain that to an audience of people who are similarly lacking in intelligence or education. So you get that. It’s okay. But it’s tedious.
“We hadn’t sold out one of the shows, so the promoter wanted me to go on the radio. So I said: ‘Alright, I’ll do an interview.’ Well, then that wasn’t enough. They wanted me to talk about five punk songs. And I told them: ‘I don’t like punk.’”
Iggy also denied threatening the audience that he’d take his penis out while performing at the recent South By Southwest festival.
“I wasn’t threatening them… I mean, I never really have displayed my penis. That’s sort of… that’s an urban myth. Once in a while it slips out here and there, or my pants fall down a lot.”
Say what? Iggy IS a stooge.