Iggy Pop & Kate Pierson - Candy

What this video is

Released in September 1990, 'Candy' arrived at a pivotal moment when MTV's dominance was reshaping commercial viability for legacy punk and alternative artists. Iggy Pop, widely regarded as the godfather of punk, achieved his only US Top 40 chart entry with this duet. Kate Pierson of the B-52s brought new wave pop credibility and mainstream visibility to the collaboration. The song's dual-narrator structure — a man…

Why it matters

A landmark crossover artifact: 'Candy' represents the most commercially successful moment of Iggy Pop's solo career, demonstrating how punk and post-punk artists could achieve mainstream chart penetration in the early 1990s MTV era through tonal moderation and strategic collaboration. The video…

The director

New York-based filmmaker Jeff Preiss emerged through 1980s experimental cinema on the Lower East Side. He served as Director of Photography on Bruce Weber's Let's Get Lost (1988), which won the Venice Film Festival Critics Award and earned an Academy Award…