He’s chanted a ribald sea shanty with A Hawk and a Hacksaw and courted death with the Balkan composer Goran Bregovic, fronted a storied jazz trio, sung standards with the French yé-yé icon Francoise Hardy, and even stepped out with Joe Jackson to the tune of Duke Ellington’s “It Don’t Mean a Thing (Without That Swing).” He is generously accommodating of the artists who ape him: He’s sung backup for the Cult and sat in with Aussie rockers Jet-whose “Are You Gonna Be My Girl” was noted for a striking resemblance to Iggy’s own “Lust for Life.” Perhaps most bizarrely, Iggy has gotten free-associative with Ke$ha: His verse on the album version of her song “ Dirty Love” is surely the highest-charting song ever to reference Afghan rug merchants and Rick Santorum, all in the space of four bars. It makes sense that he’d work with plenty of other rock legends, whether chopping it up with Slash, dusting off Cole Porter’s “ Well, Did You Evah!” alongside Debbie Harry, or helping out Sonic Youth with a cover of his own “I Wanna Be Your Dog.” But that’s barely scratching the surface. Those empathetic qualities are also the secret to an underappreciated side of his discography: his vast catalog of cameos and collaborations.
If Iggy Pop’s early career was predicated on risk, then it’s his amicability and peculiar relatability that make him something of a national treasure these days.
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