Today, Jim Jarmusch’s documentary on Iggy Pop, Gimme Danger, premieres nationwide, drawing Stooges fans to theaters to watch their favorite live wire take a walk down memory lane. From Pop’s teenage days with the Iguanas to this year’s Post Pop Depression tour, ever present is his trademark lust for life, energy, and shirtlessness—the latter a prime platform by which to observe Pop’s seemingly carved-from-marble abs. While the footage speeds by, throughout his lurches, stage dives, and craning torso arches, Pop’s stomach remains in tight, chiseled, six-pack formation, inexplicably unaffected by time or gravity—a sort of bodily equivalent of Pharrell’s ageless face.
Flipping through photographs of performances from San Francisco to Amsterdam, 1970 to 2016, Pop maintains an impossibly fresh-from-the-gym physique. Behold his 1973 Speedo-clad frame at Los Angeles’s Whisky A Go Go, where the singer could have just as easily been a collegiate water polo player were it not for the throngs of fans reaching out to touch him. His 2003 onstage ensemble of flared light-wash jeans and stone-cut pecs would have found an enthusiastic audience in any pop heartthrob’s fans, save for his anarchist lyrics and penchant for rolling around in glass. Or consider the fact that earlier this year, Pop posed nude for a live drawing class at the New York Academy of Art. In the news, conceptual artist Jeremy Deller explained of his decision to spearhead the project: “His body is central to an understanding of rock music and its place within American culture. His body has witnessed much and should be documented,” but he could have simply said, “The man looks incredible.”
Chalk it up to great genes or proof that punk performance is the world’s greatest workout, but Iggy Pop is peacocking Michelangelo-worthy abs at an age (and hour) when most grandparents are placing their dentures in a fizzy glass of Polident. Hats and shirts off to you, Iggy. Here’s to having beach-ready abs year-round forever.
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