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# Iggy Pop Blasts Music Industry, EDM: “Why don’t I just die now.”
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/iggy-pop-blasts-music-industry-edm-why-dont-i-just-die-now/
- Published: 2016-05-23T12:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2016-05-23T12:30:00.000Z
- Description: At a press conference in Cannes to promote Jim Jarmusch's new Stooges documentary "Gimme Danger," Iggy Pop let lose on modern music and the music industry that supports it.
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Music Business, Bowie, music, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 10:22

[![image from cps-static.rovicorp.com](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201bb0904e51f970d-150wi "image from cps-static.rovicorp.com")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201bb0904e51f970d-popup?ref=hypebot.com)At a press conference in **Cannes** to promote Jim Jarmusch's new **Stooges documentary** "Gimme Danger," **Iggy Pop let lose** on modern music and the music industry that supports it.

**On digital:** “The digital age has made collecting money so incredibly efficient. When we started our band we didn’t know what publishing was. Now you can push a button and get rich quick.

**On Analog & EDM:** He compared analog technology to “throwing an amp into the spirit of man,” and the frowned while mimicking a techno beat. “It’s like: woah, you know! Why don’t I just die now.”

**A Product Of The Times:** Pop said that “a product of my times” took so much acid that he can't remember much of his past.

**On Over stimulation:** "“If everyone could just calm the fuck down a little bit that would be good. There’s a stimulation today that’s really intense.”

Excerpts via [The Guardian](http://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/may/19/iggy-pop-jim-jarmusch-stooges-gimme-danger-cannes-2016?ref=hypebot.com)

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