“Strung Out Johnny” is an anti-drug song coming from a source, Iggy Pop, who has had his fair share of issues with such substances. It is said that the one he really had a problem...
“New Atlantis” is a song in which seemingly Iggy Pop goes comparing Miami, the city he’s lived in for about the last 30 years, to Atlantis. Atlantis, as you probably already know, is a civilization of...
The term “morning show”, as Iggy utilizes it, is metaphorical and furthermore symbolic of a concept like having to go out and facing the world every day. What’s being inferred is that at times, the...
Iggy admitted that he was cranky at the time “Modern Day Ripoff” was composed. He also described the vocalist’s character as being a “middle-aged white guy”, but we know that by this point, Pop has personally...
By this stage in the game Iggy Pop, being a septuagenarian and all, is older than most of the rest of us. And perhaps it can be said that as such legendary artists get older...
The primary addressee of this song would be a rival of Iggy Pop and moreover someone who obviously causes him a considerable degree of angst. However, outside of the first verse and pre-chorus, the focus...
There’s a lot going on in Iggy Pop’s “The Regency” – so much so that focusing on it all would actually lead us away from what Iggy described as being the basis of the...
Based on Iggy Pop’s explanation of “Comments”, this piece was in fact inspired by his interactions with social media. The fact that Iggy, as of its song’s release, has nearly 600,000 followers on Instagram belies his true popularity,...
