1960s Osterberg began his music career as a drummer in various high school bands in
Ann Arbor, Michigan, including
the Iguanas, who covered several records such as
Bo Diddley's "
Mona" in 1965. He then began exploring local
blues-style bands such as
the Prime Movers (with brothers Dan and
Michael Erlewine), which he joined at 18 years old. The Prime Movers gave him the nickname "Iggy" for having played in the Iguanas. According to biographer Jim Ambrose, the two years he spent in the band made him aware of "art, politics, and experimentation". Osterberg eventually dropped out of the
University of Michigan and moved to Chicago to learn more about blues. While in Chicago, he played drums in blues clubs, helped by
Sam Lay (formerly of the
Paul Butterfield Blues Band) who shared his connections with Pop. Inspired by
Chicago blues as well as bands like
the Sonics,
MC5 and
the Doors, he formed
the Psychedelic Stooges. The band was composed of Osterberg on vocals,
Ron Asheton on guitar, Asheton's brother
Scott on drums, and
Dave Alexander on bass. Their first show was played at a Halloween party at a house in Detroit, Michigan. Members of the MC5 were also in attendance. Osterberg became interested in Ron Asheton after seeing him perform in the Chosen Few (a covers band), believing "I've never met a convincing musician that didn't look kind of ill and kind of dirty, and Ron had those two things covered!" The three nicknamed Osterberg "Pop" after a local character named Jim Popp, who he was said to have resembled after shaving his eyebrows. The seeds of Pop's stage persona were sown when he saw
the Doors perform in 1967 at the University of Michigan and was amazed by the stage antics and antagonism displayed by singer
Jim Morrison. Morrison's extreme behavior, while performing in a popular band, inspired the young Pop to push the boundaries of stage performance. Other influences on Pop's vocals and persona were
Mick Jagger and
James Brown: In addition to Jim Morrison and the Doors' influence on the band, Pop also attributes the Stooges getting jump-started after seeing an all-girl rock band from
Princeton, New Jersey, called the Untouchable. In a 1995 interview with
Bust, he relates: In 1968, one year after their live debut and now dubbed
the Psychedelic Stooges, the band signed with
Elektra Records, again following in the footsteps of the Doors, who were Elektra's biggest act at the time. In the 2016 Jim Jarmusch documentary film about the Stooges,
Gimme Danger, Pop tells of guitarist
Ron Asheton calling
Moe Howard to see if it was all right to call the band "The Stooges", to which Howard responded by merely saying "I don't care what they call themselves, as long as they're not
The Three Stooges!" and hung up the phone. The Stooges' first album
The Stooges (on which Pop was credited as "Iggy Stooge") was produced by
John Cale in New York in 1969.
1970s The Stooges and the follow-up,
Fun House, produced by Don Gallucci in Los Angeles in 1970, sold poorly. Though the release of
Fun House did not receive the recognition expected, it was later ranked No. 191 in ''Rolling Stone's'' '500 Greatest Albums of All Time' in 2003. Shortly after the release of
Fun House, the group disbanded because of Pop's worsening
heroin addiction. In 1971, without a record deal, the Stooges kept performing in small clubs with a five-piece lineup that included both Ron Asheton and
James Williamson on guitars and Jimmy Recca on bass, Pop having fired Dave Alexander the previous year when he turned up for a gig unable to play because of his chronic alcoholism. That year Pop and
David Bowie met at
Max's Kansas City, a nightclub and restaurant in New York City. Pop's career received a boost from his relationship with Bowie when Bowie decided in 1972 to produce an album with him in England. With Williamson signed on as guitarist, the search began for a
rhythm section. However, since neither Pop nor Williamson were satisfied with any players in England, they decided to re-unite the Stooges. Ron Asheton grudgingly moved from guitar to bass. The recording sessions produced the rock landmark
Raw Power. After its release,
Scott Thurston was added to the band on keyboards/electric piano and Bowie continued his support, but Pop's
drug problem persisted. The Stooges' last show in 1974 ended in a fight between the band and a group of
bikers, documented on the album
Metallic K.O. Drug abuse stalled Pop's career again for several years. After the Stooges' second breakup, Pop made recordings with James Williamson, but these were not released until 1977 (as
Kill City, credited jointly to Pop and Williamson). Pop was unable to control his
drug use and checked himself into a
mental institution, the
UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute, to try to clean up. Bowie was one of his few visitors, continuing to support his friend and collaborator. In 1976, Bowie took Pop as his companion on the
Station to Station tour. This was Pop's first exposure to large-scale professional touring, and he was impressed, particularly with Bowie's work ethic. Following a March 21, 1976, show, Bowie and Pop were arrested together for
marijuana possession in
Rochester, New York, although charges were later dropped. Bowie and Pop relocated to West Berlin to wean themselves off their respective drug addictions. "Living in a Berlin apartment with Bowie and his friends was interesting…" Pop recalled. "The big event of the week was Thursday night. Anyone who was still alive and able to crawl to the sofa would watch
Starsky & Hutch." In 1977, Pop signed with
RCA Records. Bowie helped write and produce
The Idiot and
Lust for Life, Pop's two most acclaimed albums as a solo artist, the latter featuring one of his best-known songs, "
The Passenger".
Lust for Life featured another team of brothers,
Hunt and
Tony Fox Sales, sons of comedian
Soupy Sales. Among the songs Bowie and Pop wrote together were "
China Girl", "
Tonight", and "
Sister Midnight", all of which Bowie performed on his own albums later (the last being recorded with different lyrics as "
Red Money" on
Lodger). Bowie also played keyboards in Pop's live performances, some of which are featured on the album
TV Eye Live in 1978. In return, Pop contributed backing vocals on Bowie's
Low. "Artistically, I really like those two records,
The Idiot and
Lust for Life," Pop said. "But I was personally just miserable… David was a really good friend to me in many ways, but… he had
his whole thing going on and a whole apparatus of people around him, and problems that he had to face. For more than a year, I lived in the room next door, and I had a good friendship, but it wasn't the same as being in
a band." Pop had grown dissatisfied with RCA, later admitting that he had made
TV Eye Live as a quick way of fulfilling his three-album RCA contract. He moved to
Arista Records, under whose banner he released
New Values in 1979. This album was something of a Stooges reunion, with James Williamson producing and latter-day Stooge
Scott Thurston playing guitar and keyboards. Not surprisingly, the album's style harkened back to the guitar sound of the Stooges.
New Values was not a commercial success in the U.S. but has since been highly regarded by critics. The album was moderately successful in Australia and New Zealand, however, and this led to Pop's first visit there to promote it. While in Melbourne, he made a memorable appearance on the
Australian Broadcasting Corporation's nationwide show
Countdown. During his anarchic performance of "I'm Bored", Pop made no attempt to conceal the fact that he was
lip-synching (shoving the microphone down his pants at one point), and he even tried to grab the teenage girls in the audience. He was also interviewed by host
Molly Meldrum, an exchange which was frequently punctuated by the singer jumping up and down on his chair and making loud exclamations of "G'day mate" in a mock
Australian accent. His
Countdown appearance is generally considered one of the highlights of the show's history and it cemented his popularity with Australian punk fans, since then he has often toured there. While visiting New Zealand, Pop recorded a music video for "I'm Bored" and attended a record company function where he appeared to slap a woman and throw wine over a photographer. While in Australia, Pop was also the guest on a live late-night commercial TV interview show on the
Ten Network. The
Countdown appearance has often been re-screened in Australia.
1980s During the recording of
Soldier (1980), Pop and Bowie argued with Williamson over various aspects of the project. Williamson recalled, "I was not at all happy with a number of aspects of that record including the band, the material and the recording facilities. So I was unhappy in general and vice versa". Williamson left the project. Bowie appeared on the song "Play it Safe", performing backing vocals with the group
Simple Minds. During a live performance in Brooklyn in 1981, Pop smashed a microphone into his own face, knocking out a front tooth. The book, which includes a selection of black and white photographs, featured a foreword by
Andy Warhol. Warhol wrote that he met Pop when he was Jim Osterberg, at the Ann Arbor Film Festival in 1966. "I don't know why he hasn't made it really big," Warhol wrote. "He is so good." In 1983, Pop's fortunes changed when David Bowie recorded a cover of the song "China Girl". The song had originally appeared on
The Idiot and was a major hit on Bowie's blockbuster ''
Let's Dance'' album. As co-writer of the song, Pop received substantial
royalties. On
Tonight in 1984, Bowie recorded five more of their co-written songs, two from
Lust for Life, one from
New Values, and two new songs), assuring Pop financial security, at least for the short term. The support from Bowie enabled Pop to take a three-year break, during which he overcame his resurgent heroin addiction and took acting classes. Additionally, Pop contributed the title song to the 1984 film
Repo Man (with
Steve Jones, previously of the
Sex Pistols, on guitar, and
Nigel Harrison and
Clem Burke, both of
Blondie on bass and drums) as well as an instrumental called "Repo Man Theme" that was played during the opening credits. In 1985, Pop recorded some demos with Jones. He played these demos for Bowie, who was sufficiently impressed to offer to produce an album for Pop: 1986's
new wave-influenced
Blah-Blah-Blah, featuring the single "
Real Wild Child", a cover of "The Wild One", originally written and recorded by Australian rock 'n' roll musician
Johnny O'Keefe in 1958. The single was a Top 10 hit in the UK and was successful around the world, especially in Australia, where it has been used since 1987 as the theme music for the
ABC's late-night music video show
Rage.
Blah-Blah-Blah was Pop's highest-charting album in the U.S. since
The Idiot in 1977, peaking at No. 75 on the
Billboard 200 chart. Also in 1985, Pop and
Lou Reed contributed their singing voices to the animated film
Rock & Rule. Pop performed the song "Pain & Suffering" in the final sequence of the film. Pop's music appeared on the soundtrack to the 1986 film
Dogs in Space. in 1987 In 1987, Pop appeared (along with
Bootsy Collins) on a mostly instrumental album,
Neo Geo, by Japanese composer
Ryuichi Sakamoto. The music video for "Risky", written and directed by Meiert Avis, won the first MTV Breakthrough Video Award. The groundbreaking video explores
transhumanist philosopher
FM-2030's ideas of
Nostalgia for the Future in the form of an imagined love affair between a robot and one of
Man Ray's models in Paris in the late 1930s. Additional inspiration was drawn from
Jean Baudrillard,
Edvard Munch's 1894 painting
Puberty, and
Roland Barthes Death of the Author. The surrealist black-and-white video uses stop motion, light painting, and other retro in-camera effects techniques. Meiert Avis recorded Sakamoto while at work on the score for
The Last Emperor in London. Sakamoto also appears in the video painting words and messages to an open shutter camera. Pop, who performs the vocals on "Risky", chose not to appear in the video, allowing his performance space to be occupied by the surrealist era robot. Pop's follow-up to
Blah Blah Blah,
Instinct (1988), was a turnaround in musical direction. Its stripped-back, guitar-based sound leaned further towards the sound of the Stooges than any of his solo albums to date. His record label dropped him, but the
King Biscuit Flower Hour radio show recorded the
Instinct tour (featuring guitarist
Andy McCoy and
Alvin Gibbs on bass) in Boston on July 19, 1988. Working with rock attorney Stann Findelle, Pop scored more movie soundtrack inclusions in 1989: "Living on the Edge of the Night" in the
Ridley Scott thriller
Black Rain; and "Love Transfusion", a song originally written by
Alice Cooper (who does backing vocals) and
Desmond Child, in ''
Wes Craven's Shocker''. Also, at the same time, Pop, dissatisfied from RCA's decisions, revoked copyrights of his RCA releases, assigned it to his company
Thousand Mile, and signed a contract with
Virgin Records, which was a unique hybrid of distribution deal for his RCA releases and a recording contract for new albums. Virgin first reissued
Lust for Life and
The Idiot in 1990, then
TV Eye Live 1977 in 1994.
1990s In 1990, Pop recorded
Brick by Brick. The album was produced by
Don Was and featured members of
Guns N' Roses and
the B-52's as guests. His
Kiss My Blood video (1991) was directed by
Tim Pope and filmed at the
Olympia in Paris. The video attracted much controversy, as it included footage of Pop performing with his penis exposed to the audience.
Brick by Brick featured his first Top 40 U.S. hit, "
Candy", a duet with B-52's singer
Kate Pierson. Also in 1990, Pop sang the role of "The Prosecutor" for the
POINT Music/
Philips Classics recording (released in 1992) of composer
John Moran's multimedia opera
The Manson Family. That year he also contributed to the
Red Hot Organization's AIDS benefit album
Red Hot + Blue project, singing a version of "
Well Did You Evah!" in a duet with
Debbie Harry. In the early to middle 1990s, Pop would make several guest appearances on the
Nickelodeon show
The Adventures of Pete and Pete. He played James Mecklenberg, Nona Mecklenberg's father. In 1991, Pop and Kirst contributed the song "Why Was I Born (Freddy's Dead)" to the soundtrack of the film ''
Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare. The song also plays over the end credits of the film, with a compilation of clips from the A Nightmare on Elm Street series running alongside the end credits. In the same year, Pop sang a leading role in the John Moran opera The Manson Family''. In 1992, he collaborated with
Goran Bregović on the
soundtrack for the movie
Arizona Dream by
Emir Kusturica. Pop sang four of the songs:
In the Deathcar,
TV Screen,
Get the Money, and
This is a Film. Also in 1992, he collaborated with the New York City band
White Zombie. He recorded spoken word vocals on the intro and outro of the song "
Black Sunshine" as well as playing the character of a writer in the video shot for the song. In 1993, Pop released
American Caesar, including two successful singles, "Wild America" and "Beside You". The following year Pop contributed to
Buckethead's album
Giant Robot, including the songs "Buckethead's Toy Store" and "Post Office Buddy". He appears also on the
Les Rita Mitsouko album
Système D where he sings the duet "My Love is Bad" with
Catherine Ringer. In 1996, Pop again found mainstream fame when his 1977 song "
Lust for Life" was featured in the film
Trainspotting. A new video was recorded for the song, with clips from the film and studio footage of Pop dancing with one of the film's stars,
Ewen Bremner. A Pop concert also served as a plot point in the film. The song has also been used in TV commercials for
Royal Caribbean and as the theme music to
The Jim Rome Show, a nationally syndicated American sports talk show. In 1996, Pop released
Naughty Little Doggie and the single "I Wanna Live". Pop was injured during a show in 1997 when he dove from the stage of the
Polaris Amphitheatre and the crowd failed to catch him, resulting in a dislocated shoulder and tendon damage. Around this time, he
remixed
Raw Power to give it a rougher, more hard-edged sound; fans had complained for years that Bowie's official "rescue effort" mix was muddy and lacking in bass. Pop testified in the reissue's liner notes that on the new mix, "everything's still in the red". Also in 1997, Pop was credited with the soundtrack to the film
The Brave. On January 1, 1998, Pop made a guest appearance on
Paramount Television's science fiction series
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Pop played a
Vorta in an episode based upon the film
The Magnificent Seven, titled "
The Magnificent Ferengi". Pop also contributed the theme song for
Space Goofs. Pop co-produced his 1999 album
Avenue B with
Don Was, releasing the single "Corruption". Pop also sang on the 1999
Death in Vegas UK Top-10 single
Aisha. The same year he appeared on
Hashisheen: The End of Law, a collaborative effort by
Bill Laswell, reading on the tracks "The Western Lands" and "A Quick Trip to Alamut".
2000s Pop sang on the tracks "
Rolodex Propaganda" and "Enfilade" by
At the Drive-In in 2000. In 2001, he released ''
Beat 'Em Up'', which gave birth to
the Trolls, releasing the single "Football" featuring Trolls alumni Whitey Kirst and brother Alex. Pop's music appeared on the soundtrack to the 2001 film
He Died with a Felafel in his Hand. In 2005, Pop appeared, along with Madonna,
Little Richard,
Bootsy Collins, and
the Roots'
Questlove, in an American TV commercial for the
Motorola ROKR phone. Pop's 2003 album
Skull Ring featured collaborators
Sum 41,
Green Day,
Peaches, and
the Trolls, as well as Ron and Scott Asheton, reuniting the three surviving founding members of
the Stooges for the first time since 1974. Pop made a guest appearance on
Peaches's song "Kick It" as well as the video. Also in 2003, the first full-length biography of Pop was published.
Gimme Danger – The Story of Iggy Pop was written by Joe Ambrose; Pop did not collaborate on the biography or publicly endorse it. Having enjoyed working with the Ashetons on
Skull Ring, Pop reformed the Stooges, with bassist
Mike Watt (formerly of
the Minutemen) filling in for the late
Dave Alexander and
Fun House saxophonist
Steve Mackay rejoining the lineup. That year, Pop opened
Madonna's
Reinvention World Tour in Dublin. In early 2006, Pop and the Stooges played in Australia and New Zealand for the
Big Day Out. They also began work on a new album,
The Weirdness, which was recorded by
Steve Albini and released in March 2007. In August 2006, Pop and the Stooges performed at the
Lowlands pop festival in the Netherlands, Hodokvas in
Slovakia and in the
Sziget Festival in
Budapest. Author
Paul Trynka completed a biography of Pop (with his blessing) called
Open Up and Bleed, published in early 2007. In February 2007, Pop and the Stooges played at
Bam Margera's
wedding and Pop appeared on the single "
Punkrocker" with the
Teddybears in a
Cadillac television commercial. Pop was also the voice of Lil' Rummy on the
Comedy Central cartoon ''
Lil' Bush and confirmed that he has done voices for American Dad! and Grand Theft Auto IV'', which also included the Stooges song "
I Wanna Be Your Dog" (though the game's manual credited Iggy Pop as the artist). , 2007 Pop and the Stooges played the Glastonbury Festival in June 2007. Their set included material from the 2007 album
The Weirdness and classics such as "No Fun" and "I Wanna Be Your Dog". Pop also caused controversy in June 2007 when he was interviewed on the
BBC's coverage of the
Glastonbury Festival. He used the phrase "paki shop", apparently unaware of its racist connotations, prompting three complaints and an apology from the BBC. Pop guested on
Profanation, the new album by the
Bill Laswell-helmed group
Praxis, which was released on January 1, 2008. On March 10, 2008, Pop appeared at
Madonna's induction into the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the
Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York. Together with the Stooges, he sang raucous versions of two Madonna hits, "
Burning Up" and "
Ray of Light". Before leaving the stage, he looked directly at Madonna, quoting "You make me feel shiny and new, like a virgin, touched for the very first time", from Madonna's hit song "
Like a Virgin". According to guitarist Ron Asheton, Madonna asked the Stooges to perform in her place, as a protest to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for not inducting the Stooges, despite six appearances on the nomination ballot. Pop also sang on the "No Fun" cover by
Asian Dub Foundation on their 2008 album
Punkara. On January 6, 2009, original Stooges guitarist and Pop's self-described best friend
Ron Asheton was found dead from an apparent heart attack. He was 60 years old. In 2009, James Williamson rejoined the band after 29 years. On December 15, 2009, it was announced that the Stooges would be inducted into
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 15, 2010. Pop had "about two hours of a strong emotional reaction" to the news. Pop collaborated with
Danger Mouse and
Sparklehorse on the album
Dark Night of the Soul, singing the track "Pain". Pop's fifteenth solo album,
Préliminaires, was released on June 2, 2009. Inspired by a novel by French author
Michel Houellebecq called ''La Possibilité d'une île
(2005; Trans. as The Possibility of an Island by Gavin Bowd, 2006), Pop was approached to provide the soundtrack for a documentary film on Houellebecq and his attempts to make a film from his novel. He describes this new release as a "quieter album with some jazz overtones", the first single off the album, "King of the Dogs", bearing a sound strongly influenced by New Orleans jazz musicians such as Louis Armstrong and Jelly Roll Morton. Pop said that the song was his response to being "sick of listening to idiot thugs with guitars banging out crappy music". The album is available on legal download sites, CD, and a deluxe box set is available at only 6000 units worldwide. This box set contains the Préliminaires'' album, a collector "Les Feuilles Mortes" b/w "King of the Dogs" 7 inch, the cover of which is Pop's portrait by
Marjane Satrapi, and a 38-page booklet of drawings also by Marjane Satrapi. In January 2009, Pop was signed up as the face of
Swiftcover, the UK-based online insurance company. He fronted a £25 million TV ad campaign for
Swiftcover, using the strapline "Get a Life". The advert was then banned by the Advertising Standards Authority on April 28, 2009, for being misleading – it implied that Pop himself had an insurance policy with Swiftcover when at the time the company did not insure musicians.
2010s Pop also sings on "We're All Gonna Die" on
Slash's first solo album
Slash, which was released in April 2010. He appeared as a character in the video game
Lego Rock Band to sing his song "
The Passenger" and also lent his voice for the in-game tutorial. With reference to the song "The Passenger", Pop has appeared on NZ television advertising phone networks, showing that he could get a band to play together by conference call. He was inducted as part of the Stooges into the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 15, 2010. , July 2011 After a March 2010
stage diving accident, Pop claimed he would no longer stage dive. However, he did so on three occasions at a concert in Madrid, Spain on April 30, 2010, and did similarly at London's
Hammersmith Apollo on May 2, 2010. On July 9, 2010, Pop again stage dived at
Rock Zottegem, Belgium, causing bleeding from the face. In June 2010, Pop appeared at Yonge and Dundas Square in Toronto with the reformed Stooges on the NXNE main stage. In 2011 he teamed up with the Lilies, a collaboration between
Sergio Dias of
Os Mutantes and French group Tahiti Boy & The Palmtree Family, to record the single "Why?". Pop lent his image to
PETA's campaign against the annual Canada seal hunt. On April 7, 2011, at age 63, Pop performed "Real Wild Child" on the
tenth season of American Idol; the
Los Angeles Times music blog "Iggy Pop & Hiss" described Pop as being "still magnetic, still disturbing". He is also featured on
Kesha's song "
Dirty Love" on her second album
Warrior. In 2012, Pop was voted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends Hall of Fame. On August 25, 2013, Iggy and the Stooges co-headlined RiotFest 2013's Day 2, performing in Toronto and Denver along with
the Replacements. Stooges drummer
Scott Asheton died of a heart attack in March 2014 at the age of 64. On October 14, 2014, Pop gave the fourth annual
BBC Music John Peel Lecture in
Salford, on the topic of "Free Music in a Capitalist Society". He used the lecture to discuss his experiences of the music industry, and his reflections on the effect of the internet on the consumption of music and the broader media. In January 2015, it was announced that Pop contributed the theme song to
Alex Cox's film
Bill, the Galactic Hero. He also collaborated with
New Order on the song "Stray Dog" of their album
Music Complete released in September of that year. Pop also collaborated with
Tomoyasu Hotei on the songs "How The Cookie Crumbles" and "Walking Through The Night" from the album
Strangers, also released that same year. On June 22, 2016, Stooges guitarist
James Williamson made an official statement saying that the Stooges were no more: Williamson also added that touring had become boring, and trying to balance the band's career as well as Pop's was a difficult task. In 2016, Pop recorded an album with
Josh Homme titled
Post Pop Depression. The album was released on March 18, with a tour of Europe and North America entitled
Post Pop Depression Tour to follow, starting from March 28. On both sides of the Atlantic, the album set a new peak chart position for Iggy Pop albums, becoming his first US Top 20 album and first UK Top 5 album. On July 27, 2018, Pop released a joint EP with
Underworld, titled
Teatime Dub Encounters. Pop and Underworld had both contributed tracks to
Danny Boyle's 1996 movie
Trainspotting.
2020s In January 2020, Pop received a
Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. In August, Pop was featured in a tailoring campaign for Gucci which also starred
Tyler the Creator and
A$AP Rocky. In December, Pop featured on a rework of
Elvis Costello's song "No Flag" from Costello's 2020 album
Hey Clockface. The song was a re-recording, with Pop providing the vocals, translated to French for this version. A new digital track by Pop was also released, titled "Dirty Little Virus". Lyrically, it is about the
COVID-19 pandemic. That year, he also collaborated with
Morrissey on his upcoming album
Bonfire of Teenagers. In April 2021, French singer Clio released a duet with Iggy Pop titled "L'appartement". On his new album
Breathe by Hammond master Lonnie Smith, Pop provides vocals on two tracks, "
Why Can't We Live Together" (a cover version of the Timmy Thomas original) and on "
Sunshine Superman" (a cover version of the Donovan original). The album was released in March 2021. Pop collaborated with Belgian composer and violinist Catherine Graindorge on three tracks on her new EP
The Dictator. It was released in September 2022. "Frenzy" was released late 2022 ahead of Pop's nineteenth studio album
Every Loser: the track featured
Duff McKagan and
Chad Smith. The album was produced by
Andrew Watt. Upon release in January 2023.
Every Loser received favourable reviews with
NME dubbing it "a high-velocity joyride full of delightful doses of wit and grit". At around this time, Pop said he was done with stagediving. In 2024 he re-recorded "The Passenger" in duet with
Siouxsie Sioux: their orchestral version with a slower tempo was conceived for a commercial. In May 2025, he collaborated with the champagne brand
Dom Pérignon for a campaign named "Creation is an Eternal Journey". In 2025, Pop's 2006 collaboration "
Punkrocker" with
Teddybears was featured in the superhero film
Superman. On September 27, 2025, Pop headlined the "
CBGB Festival" in
Brooklyn NY. ==Film, television and radio career==