{"id":489060,"date":"2019-08-14T13:00:37","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T19:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=871736"},"modified":"2019-08-14T13:00:37","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T19:00:37","slug":"see-iggy-pop-emulate-007-in-suave-james-bond-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/see-iggy-pop-emulate-007-in-suave-james-bond-video\/","title":{"rendered":"See Iggy Pop Emulate 007 in Suave \u2018James Bond\u2019 Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IggyPop.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/iggy-pop\/\" id=\"auto-tag_iggy-pop\" data-tag=\"iggy-pop\">Iggy Pop<\/a> dresses chic \u2014 at least chic for Iggy Pop, as he typically wears a blazer over his nude torso \u2014 in the clip for \u201cJames Bond,\u201d a track off his forthcoming <em>Free<\/em> album. \u201cShe wants to be your James Bond,\u201d he sings over a lumbering bass line. \u201cWell, it\u2019s not for a price, and it\u2019s not to be nice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Singer Faith Vern chimes in \u201cJames Bond\u201d at the end of his verses, but as the song goes on, she looks less Bond-like in a blue, faux-fur coat and a flannel shirt, as Pop takes some lewd turns lyrically (\u201cNuts melt in her mouth, but not in her hand.\u201d) The track gets funkier and jazzier, leading up to Leron Thomas\u2019 stunning trumpet solo.<\/p>\n<p>Pop was coy in a statement when he discussed the meaning behind \u201cJames Bond.\u201d \u201cI don\u2019t know what she\u2019s up to exactly, but the tables seem to be turning, and she\u2019s taking over,\u201d he said. \u201cWell, why not? I\u2019ll try anything once. I\u2019ve never had more fun singing a lyric. Faith\u2019s reading is so loaded, and Leron\u2019s production and trumpet along with the band swings like crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The singer made the video in Miami, where he lives, at Sweat Records. It was directed by Simon Taylor, who previously made a video for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/hear-iggy-pop-underworlds-buoyant-get-your-shirt-696535\/\">Pop\u2019s collaboration with Underworld<\/a>, \u201cGet Your Shirt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Free<\/em> is due out September 6th. He previously released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/iggy-pop-new-album-free-860520\/\">the track \u201cFree,\u201d<\/a> when he announced the album.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/iggy-pop-james-bond-video-871736\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iggy Pop dresses chic \u2014 at least chic for Iggy Pop, as he typically wears a blazer over his nude torso \u2014 in the clip for \u201cJames Bond,\u201d a track off his forthcoming Free album. \u201cShe wants to be your James Bond,\u201d he sings over a lumbering bass line. \u201cWell, it\u2019s not for a price, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-489060","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-24 12:58:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}