Word: songe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hard to tell how to take what happens next: Iggy rocks out, albeit with a new song. Whilst Iggy was crooning all acoustic like and you were paying attention to the audience, his band members ambled out sans subtlety and picked up their instruments, so that when the next song is loud and fast, it's neither surprising nor especially heartening. Is Iggy, y'know, disavowing this soft and earnest crap he was just feeding us? Makes it worse if even he doesn't have his heart in it. This new song: "Ya yo hablo espaol" goes the refrain ("Espaol...
...anger and self-loathing. Because it's better than feeling nothing, than living in '70s suburban Michigan and not meaning shit to anybody, even yourself. That was Iggy 30 years ago; Iggy now is "Behind the Music." So now Iggy's on stage and 50 and performing the same songs he was then. Sure, the band's lousy and thrusts every single great song they perform through a meat grinder which turns'em into generic hard rock, but still: "Raw Power," "Search and Destroy," "I Wanna Be Your Dog," "No Fun," "T.V. Eye," "Lust for Life," "The Passenger...
...Really? I had no idea! (Laughs). All I know is that my face would never adorn their catalogs or advertisements. That's very comical-you'll never see me playing soccer while beautiful women hang all over me. The song has definitely been promoted to pop radio. We have people listening to us that would never have listened to any of the songs off the first album. There is a radio station in Maryland where we were third most requested on their pop charts, behind Britney Spears and the Backstreet Boys...
...have a track on the recently released Handsome Boy Modeling School compilation. On that song, "Metaphysical," you're singing with Mike D from the Beastie Boys. How important are side projects like this to you as an artist...
...That song was an amazing experience, I enjoyed it a lot. Yuka does stuff also, playing with amazing jazz musicians, and Sean [Lennon, bassist and Honda's boyfriend] does his thing. These projects are like big presents for us I think, they refresh our minds. Then when we get together, we launch something new from all our experiences...