Iggy Pop And The Stooges hebben de opnames afgerond van hun eerste studioalbum in dertig jaar! De opvolger van het grensverleggende album "Raw Power" uit 1973 zal verschijnen onder de titel "The Weirdness".
"Look, a lot of the people that dig us now didn't have to wait 33 years, because they haven't been alive for all that time!. If someone digs our old stuff and they're only, say, 15, they've probably only been digging it since they were 11. So they only had four years to wait. We're like a new band to most of these kids who're getting into us."
Wat betreft teksten geldt dat Iggy Pop een ander mens is dan dertig jaar terug. De zaken die hem toen boos maakten zijn veranderd. Sterker nog, Iggy's leven is momenteel best aangenaam, nu hij eindelijk de waardering en beloning krijgt waarom hij lange tijd gewacht heeft:
"I'm just now getting the rewards that you were supposed to get from my job when I was 21. I'm just getting 'em now. I got a hot chick. I can drive whatever I want to. I can go to the ATM and pull out a bunch of money. I have a swell job. How angry do I have to be? Just a little bit. My thing [with this record was] more like finding ways of saying 'You suck!' without actually saying it."
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