{"id":10635,"date":"2011-04-21T21:24:26","date_gmt":"2011-04-22T01:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=10635"},"modified":"2019-07-14T18:13:27","modified_gmt":"2019-07-14T22:13:27","slug":"wear-what-you-want-icon-iggy-pop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/wear-what-you-want-icon-iggy-pop\/","title":{"rendered":"“Wear What You Want” Icon: Iggy Pop"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today is punk rocker Iggy Pop’s 64th birthday, but he’s been on my mind since last month. At the time, I was sitting in a doctor’s office, reading a 2010 New Yorker, when I came across an article on how the often-shirtless Pop was promoting a line of t-shirts. The article noted, “…neither age nor gravity has curbed Pop’s preference for being stripped to the waist.”\u00a0 I tore the article out of the magazine to share it with y’all. How punk of me!<\/p>\n

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I particularly enjoyed this:<\/p>\n

“Pop admitted that there have been times, lately, when his unclad torso has met with disapproval. ‘You know, from time to time, if I take my shirt off now, it doesn’t look the way it did when I was thirty-two,’ he said. ‘It’s, like, ugh. But look — when I’m playing, I’m the shit. As long as that’s true, I can take it off.'”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Damn straight, Iggy! Wear — or don’t wear — what you want.<\/p>\n

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20-something Iggy on the cover of 1972's Raw Power album. <\/p><\/div>\n

As far as I’m concerned, Iggy can go shirtless till he’s 110 years old. He’s Iggy Pop and we’re not!<\/p>\n

Embed from Getty Images<\/a>