{"id":1654,"date":"2012-05-11T17:43:59","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T17:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/05\/11\/iggy-pop-forced-to-self-release-new-album-after-label-rejection\/"},"modified":"2012-05-11T17:43:59","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T17:43:59","slug":"iggy-pop-forced-to-self-release-new-album-after-label-rejection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2012\/05\/11\/iggy-pop-forced-to-self-release-new-album-after-label-rejection\/","title":{"rendered":"Iggy Pop forced to self-release new album after label rejection"},"content":{"rendered":"


Iggy Pop’s new album has been rejected by his record label, forcing the singer to release it himself. Virgin EMI turned down the collection of cover versions and French chanson, so Pop has put it on sale via digital retailers.
“[The label] didn’t want it,” Pop told a Paris press conference earlier this week. “They didn’t think they would make any money, they didn’t think my fans would like it \u2026 They would have preferred that I do a rock album with popular punks, sort of like ‘Hi Dad!'”<\/p>\n

Pop claims he offered the album to Virgin EMI, as he is contractually obliged to do, and the label simply passed. “What has a record company ever done for me but humiliate and torment and drag me down?” he said.<\/p>\n

Pop’s new LP, Apr\u00e8s, is a sequel to 2009’s Michel Houellebecq-inspired Pr\u00e9liminaires, which also included jazz, soft rock and renditions of French classics. Alongside tracks by Serge Gainsbourg, George Brassens and \u00c9dith Piaf, Pop croons versions of the Beatles’ Michelle and Harry Nilsson’s Everybody’s Talkin’.<\/p>\n

Instead of releasing Apr\u00e8s in shops, the record is only available through services such as iTunes. It had its debut on the French website Vente Priv\u00e9e, where it sold for just \u20ac7. “I’ve always had a very rough time in the big-time music business,” Pop said. “I got kicked off every label.”<\/p>\n

Despite Pop’s comments about spurning “popular” kids, he recently recorded a song with Ke$ha. “Its a fk!ng dream come true,” she tweeted on Tuesday. “Iggy + I got a song for yall on my next record \u2026 get ready.”<\/p>\n

Source: The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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