{"id":42073,"date":"2025-07-27T15:36:33","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T15:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/27\/watch-iggy-pop-play-superman-song-punkrocker-live-for-first-time\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T15:36:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T15:36:33","slug":"watch-iggy-pop-play-superman-song-punkrocker-live-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/27\/watch-iggy-pop-play-superman-song-punkrocker-live-for-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Iggy Pop Play &#8216;Superman&#8217; Song &#8216;Punkrocker&#8217; Live for First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;Punkrocker,&#8221; a once-obscure collaboration with Swedish trio Teddybears, has gone viral since its appearance in <em>Superman<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/superman\/\" id=\"auto-tag_superman\" data-tag=\"superman\">Superman<\/a> is the best friend you could have,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/iggy-pop\/\" id=\"auto-tag_iggy-pop\" data-tag=\"iggy-pop\">Iggy Pop<\/a> recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/music-news\/iggy-pop-superman-soundtrack-punkrocker-james-gunn-1236315320\/\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>, responding to the prominent use of \u201cPunkrocker,\u201d his 2006 collaboration with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/teddybears\/\" id=\"auto-tag_teddybears\" data-tag=\"teddybears\">Teddybears<\/a>, in the final scene of <em>Superman<\/em> \u2014\u00a0and he proved he meant it Saturday night by playing the formerly obscure track live for the first time ever. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe song, which has exploded on streaming services and gone viral on TikTok since the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tv-movies\/tv-movie-features\/superman-director-james-gunn-dc-studios-interview-1235356450\/\">movie<\/a>\u2018s release, concluded Pop\u2019s performance at Portland, Oregon\u2019s Project Pabst Festival. Pop dedicated the performance to <em>Superman<\/em>, according to a crowd member who posted video.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Iggy Pop - Punkrocker (Superman - Live Debut) - Portland, OR @ Project Pabst - 07\/26\/2025\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3nhtecBInZg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe song\u2019s use in <em>Superman<\/em> ties in with a moment earlier in the movie when David Corenswet\u2019s Kal-El suggests, in a conversation with Rachel Brosnahan\u2019s Lois Lane, that kindness is \u201cthe real punk rock\u201d \u2014\u00a0a line that writer\/director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/james-gunn\/\" id=\"auto-tag_james-gunn\" data-tag=\"james-gunn\">James Gunn<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tv-movies\/tv-movie-features\/superman-ending-explained-james-gunn-spoiler-interview-1235389024\/\">recently told<\/a> <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> is \u201cthe point of the movie.\u201d In the same interview, Gunn said that he had first encountered \u201cPunkrocker\u201d when it popped up via Spotify\u2019s algorithm, and that the song stuck with him. <\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cAnd so when I wrote that line, I think I thought back to that song and knew that would really work well,\u201d Gunn told <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>. \u201cAnd I just liked how the ending juggled all these different pieces of the movie in a way where we showed that the real punk rock was him, his dad, all the way to the shot of the dad making the baby fly. He flies because of his parents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe end credits of <em>Superman<\/em> also feature another punk moment, via a song by the Mighty Crabjoys, a fictional pop-punk band said to be among Clark Kent\u2019s childhood favorites. Gunn, a former rock musician, wrote \u201cThe Mighty Crabjoys Theme\u201d with Foxy Shazam\u2019s Eric Nally. \u201cI literally wrote that song and sang it into my phone the first thing in the morning,\u201d says GUnn. \u201cIt took five minutes, and then Eric turned it into the fun song that it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/iggy-pop-superman-song-punkrocker-live-1235394769\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Punkrocker,&#8221; a once-obscure collaboration with Swedish trio Teddybears, has gone viral since its appearance in Superman \u201cSuperman is the best friend you could have,\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":42074,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}