Iggy Pop: The Unconventional Rock Icon

Iggy Pop is a well-recognized musician that is better-known as the lead vocalist of the band, The Stooges. The Red Bull Music Academy hosted a live interview of Iggy in October of 20l6. At this time Iggy was 69 years old. Iggy’s iconic name disregarded any need for the TV host to introduce Iggy to the audience: the rock ‘n’ roll star literally rushes into the stage and undermines the rumble of applause by his appearance.
The introduction itself was very unconventional. In fact, Iggy Pop uses himself as an attention-getter and a visual aid by simply appearing and jumping around on stage. The icon rock musician begins his first statements with a respect to the audience in a laughable way, as well with the intent to establish the atmosphere of

For the same reason, he did not apply to any technical jargon or unnecessarily complex language, except those that one can expect the musician to use, such as the names of the genres and instruments. From time to time Iggy Pop spoke as the rebellious teenager who did want to follow the rules, which is in line with his rock image. As for the rhetorical devices, he used a number of metaphors, comparisons, and repetitions. They all were used in a conventional form and did not cause difficulties in their interpretation. The majority of them related to the music, namely to the music recording, behavior on the scene, and creative process of a musician.
Finally, it is important to mention that Iggy Pop had some distracting mannerisms, such as nervous twitches and repetitive motions that may lead someone to believe he abused drugs heavily in his younger day.
Iggy Pop also managed to continuously establish the eye contact with the audience. He spoke clearly and with enthusiasm. From time to time, he used soft variations of tone to make the audience closer to his own experience and story. The punk star also used some very short pause between regular phrases and jokes. Lastly, he spoke slow enough to be understood and heard by such a big audience.
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