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“Superman is the best friend you can have,” said Iggy Pop recently in the final scene of the film “Superman” in response to the prominent use of his song “Punk rocker” – a collaboration with Teddybears. And on Saturday evening he proved that he was serious: he played the track that was hardly known to date for the first time.
The song, which has exploded on streaming platforms since the film has been published and gone on Tikok viral, formed Pop’s appearance at the Project Pabst Festival in Portland, Oregon. According to a festival visitor who posted a video, Pop dedicated the performance Superman.
Also applies to Iggy Pop: friendliness is punk rock
The use of the song in “Superman” is in direct connection with a moment earlier in the film, in which David Corenswets Kal-El suggests in a conversation with Rachel Brosahren Lois Lane that friendliness is “true punk rock”. This sentence recently referred to the screenwriter and director James Gunn in conversation with the Rolling Stone as “the statement of the film”. In the same interview, Gunn explained that he had originally discovered “punk rockers” by an algorithm meshus proposal on Spotify – and that the song had remained in his head.
“When I wrote this line, I thought, I think, back to this song and knew that it would work really well,” Gunn told Rolling Stone. “And I just liked how the end of these different parts of the film juggled – where we showed that the true punk rock was in it, in his father, right up to the attitude in which the father brings the baby to fly. He flies because of his parents.”
Punk to the credits – with fictional childhood band
The end credits of “Superman” also contain another punk moment-with a song by the Mighty Crabjoys, a fictional pop-punk band that is said to belong to Clark’s childhood favorite. Gunn, even a rock musician, wrote the play “The Mighty Crabjoys Theme” together with Eric Nally by Foxy Shazam. “I literally wrote this song first in the morning and sang it into my cell phone,” says Gunn. “It took five minutes, and then Eric made it the fun song that he is now.”