"J'ai pensé que ça parlait d'aujourd'hui, dans l'Amérique de Trump."
C'est en lisant un vieux poème de Lou Reed qu'il a eu l'idée : Iggy Pop raconte à Brut toute l’histoire derrière son morceau "We are the people".
C'est en lisant un vieux poème de Lou Reed qu'il a eu l'idée : Iggy Pop raconte à Brut toute l’histoire derrière son morceau "We are the people".
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00:00Without land, we are the people without tradition, we are the people without a country, a voice or a mirror.
00:21J'ai adoré l'instrumentale. J'ai adoré l'instrumentale et j'ai une petite maison.
00:36J'ai une petite maison.
00:38J'ai une petite maison.
00:40J'ai une petite maison.
01:12The first thing I saw when I opened on the first page, bang, there was this poem.
01:19And I thought I knew what he was saying and I thought it was today in Trump's America.
01:31The poem was written in the early 70s.
01:341970, yeah.
01:36And it's really relevant today.
01:38Absolutely relevant today and a lot of observations in there.
01:44Just even the opening line, we are the people without land.
01:48Because in each of our respective countries, there are people who own an enormous amount of land.
01:57I also think that single opening phrase also means that as he goes through the poem,
02:06it's obvious that we are people without a land either, without a land of our own.
02:13You mentioned Trump before.
02:16Was it like a political statement for you to do that?
02:20No, I didn't need to make a statement because the poem is a statement and it's Lou Reed's statement.
02:29There's a statement within the poem, if I believe, and if that's so, it would be Lou Reed's statement.
02:40Although I think that if someone had asked him about that, he would say no, I'm describing.
02:47That's my guess.
02:49It's just a very good description.
02:57Maybe there's a condemnation.
03:00It's not a pleasant, it's not complimentary, that's for sure.
03:06The guy was a hero to me artistically.
03:12He was someone I admired and looked up to because of his skills as a songwriter
03:21and what he was able to put across, and a lyricist, two separate things,
03:29and what he was able to put across in his songs, and also the vibes in the music.
03:36We might have spent, in our respective lives, a total of maybe 10 hours together.
03:49I visited him in his apartment once and stayed for an hour or two,
03:55chatted a while, and took too many Valium.