Iggy Pop 2012的新专辑 《Après》继续延续了上张专辑《Préliminaires》，继续法语继续翻唱，作品取自有The Beatles、Frank Sinatra、Edith Piaf … 特别的是还翻唱了John Lennon遗孀小野洋子的I’m Going Away Smilinghttp…… 另外、近日在法国巴黎召开的记者发布会上，伊基·波普称，他对唱片公司拒绝发行他的最新唱片并不感到惊讶。伊基·波普说道：“他们更喜欢我去做一张流行朋克风格的唱片，就像问候你的老爸一样，我不会这样去做的。他们认为我的这张唱片无法让他们赚到钱，我的歌迷不会喜欢这张唱片。他们看上去很明智，但我恰恰不是这种‘明智’的人。”For his 19th studio album, Iggy Pop will release an album of mostly French cover songs. The album is titled Après and is scheduled for a May 9 release. This news shouldn’t come entirely as a shock, as it follows his 2009 English/French album, Préliminaires. Après literally translates to “after.” Most interestingly, the 10-track album will also include version of songs by the Beatles, Yoko Ono and Frank Sinatra, in addition to Serge Gainsbourg, Edith Piaf and more. Iggy wrote the following message in a note posted on his Facebook page:“All popular music forms of today get their strength from the beat. Rap, hip-hop, metal, pop, and rock producers will tell you that the beats they use imitate the human heartbeat and that is where the power lies. The feeling of listening to any of these forms is always some variation on excitement, but before the birth of the blues there was another form of popular song, in which the timing comes from the human breath and the feelings are much more about emotion. These older ways of expression were known variously as bel canto, chanson, plainsong or just folk music. I’ve always loved this other feeling, one that is intimate, sometimes a little sad, and does not try to beat me on the head. So I wanted to sing some of these songs myself, hoping to bring the feeling I felt as a listener to my listeners through my voice. Many of these songs are in French, probably because it is French culture which has most stubbornly resisted the mortal attacks of the Anglo-American music machine.“