![]() And on Blah-Blah-Blah, TV kept infiltrating Pop’s lyrics-“ bad TV that insults me freely” (“Cry for Love”), “ raw greed and king TV” (“Hideaway”), “ I have no time to watch TV” (“Fire Girl”)-until he made the title track a stream of rants and curses at TV: pacing around the box, hurling abuse at it. Iggy Pop had been yelling at the television for most of his life, from the Stooges’ “TV Eye” to Bowie’s “TVC-15”, inspired by a Pop dream about a TV consuming his girlfriend. It’s a very polite way of saying ‘fuck you.’ It’s a way of saying that I disrespect the things that the media and the world in general are saying to me. Interviewer: Why the title, Blah-Blah-Blah? ![]() ![]() I thought, ‘why am I in this in the first place?’…to try to create a type of music that could explode me-like a rocket!-out of the type of life that was planned for me, as an American middle-class person.
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