Punk Legend Iggy Pop: ‘I Don’t Like Punk’
Iggy Pop, the punk icon who is the lead singer and frontman of The Stooges, has revealed that he actually doesn’t like punk music.
In an interview with Classic Rock magazine, Pop stated that he doesn’t like the title and thinks that the music is “tedious.”
When talking about music insiders who repeatedly use the title, Pop remarked, “They have to have a place to put me to reference in 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.”
He revealed that he was asked to to promote punk by a radio station recently, but the punk behemoth couldn’t bring himself to do it, stating, “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.'”
Pop also discussed the rumor that he had threatened to show his penis to the crowd at South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, stating, “I was 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.”
Iggy Pop And The Stooges released their fifth studio album, Ready To Die, in April of this year, which was the follow-up to 2007’s, The Weirdness.
The band reconvened in 2003 after splitting up in 1974. Previously their 1969 album, The Stooges, was named as one of the best albums of all time and it helped to inspire a generation’s worth of bands.
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