Jemina Pearl - I Hate People ft. Iggy Pop

What this video is

Released in fall 2009, 'I Hate People' arrived at the tail end of a decade that had seen a sustained wave of female-fronted indie punk acts. Jemina Pearl, at 22, was transitioning from Be Your Own Pet — a critically celebrated Nashville punk band — into a solo career under Thurston Moore's Ecstatic Peace label, distributed via Universal Motown. The collaboration with Iggy Pop, a seminal figure in proto-punk and…

Why it matters

The video represents a crystallization of post-Riot Grrrl female punk-pop aesthetics in the late 2000s, blending 1960s girl-group visual vocabulary with punk energy. As the lead single from Pearl's debut solo album, it signifies the cultural moment when post-MySpace indie punk acts were…

The director

Dylan Mulick is a director, writer, and producer born in Livingston, New Jersey. He has worked across music videos, film, TV, and branded entertainment. His music video credits include Jemina Pearl's 'I Hate People' and Sublime with Rome's 'Panic' (2011), as…