Iggy Azalea reflected on the biggest songs and moments of her music career for Variety‘s “Know Their Lyrics” series. The episode revisits Iggy’s earliest discography, from 2011…
Perfection is rarely achieved in movies, but this heaven-sent concert doc hits the sweet spot. Over two days in January 1972, the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin — she was 29 at the time — sweeps into the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Watts in front of a congregation and testifies to God in song. The blessed thing took nearly half a century to come out because director Sydney Pollack failed to sync the image with the sound. Then digital angels stepped in, and glory, glory, hallelujah!
Perfection is rarely achieved in movies, but this heaven-sent concert doc hits the sweet spot. Over two days in January 1972, the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin — she was 29 at the time — sweeps into the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Watts in front of a congregation and testifies to God in song. The blessed thing took nearly half a century to come out because director Sydney Pollack failed to sync the image with the sound. Then digital angels stepped in, and glory, glory, hallelujah!
Perfection is rarely achieved in movies, but this heaven-sent concert doc hits the sweet spot. Over two days in January 1972, the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin — she was 29 at the time — sweeps into the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Watts in front of a congregation and testifies to God in song. The blessed thing took nearly half a century to come out because director Sydney Pollack failed to sync the image with the sound. Then digital angels stepped in, and glory, glory, hallelujah!
Perfection is rarely achieved in movies, but this heaven-sent concert doc hits the sweet spot. Over two days in January 1972, the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin — she was 29 at the time — sweeps into the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Watts in front of a congregation and testifies to God in song. The blessed thing took nearly half a century to come out because director Sydney Pollack failed to sync the image with the sound. Then digital angels stepped in, and glory, glory, hallelujah!
Perfection is rarely achieved in movies, but this heaven-sent concert doc hits the sweet spot. Over two days in January 1972, the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin — she was 29 at the time — sweeps into the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Watts in front of a congregation and testifies to God in song. The blessed thing took nearly half a century to come out because director Sydney Pollack failed to sync the image with the sound. Then digital angels stepped in, and glory, glory, hallelujah!
Perfection is rarely achieved in movies, but this heaven-sent concert doc hits the sweet spot. Over two days in January 1972, the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin — she was 29 at the time — sweeps into the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Watts in front of a congregation and testifies to God in song. The blessed thing took nearly half a century to come out because director Sydney Pollack failed to sync the image with the sound. Then digital angels stepped in, and glory, glory, hallelujah!
Perfection is rarely achieved in movies, but this heaven-sent concert doc hits the sweet spot. Over two days in January 1972, the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin — she was 29 at the time — sweeps into the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Watts in front of a congregation and testifies to God in song. The blessed thing took nearly half a century to come out because director Sydney Pollack failed to sync the image with the sound. Then digital angels stepped in, and glory, glory, hallelujah!
Perfection is rarely achieved in movies, but this heaven-sent concert doc hits the sweet spot. Over two days in January 1972, the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin — she was 29 at the time — sweeps into the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Watts in front of a congregation and testifies to God in song. The blessed thing took nearly half a century to come out because director Sydney Pollack failed to sync the image with the sound. Then digital angels stepped in, and glory, glory, hallelujah!
Iggy Azalea reflected on the biggest songs and moments of her music career for Variety‘s “Know Their Lyrics” series.
The episode revisits Iggy’s earliest discography, from 2011’s “Pu$$y” — the song that launched Azalea’s career as part of her “Ignorant Art” mixtape — to her’s and Ariana Grande’s Max Martin-produced “Problem.”
“I loved collaborating with Ariana Grande. She’d been looking to make a record happen for a while before that one clicked, and we’d been seeing each other at award shows and things like that for a while,” she said. “And when I heard that record, I just knew it was a beast, and I was so excited that we finally had the perfect record. And I really loved that I could be part of a special moment, I feel, that was in her career, and that she’s always forever a really special part of mine too, because that was really a magical time for both of us.”
Azalea added that she was also really nervous to write her verse for “Problem” seeing that Martin had always been her “songwriting hero,” she said. “Especially for pop records. I’ve always really looked up to his writing ability, and wanted to meet him. So the first time that I did get to meet him was to write my part on ‘Problem’ for Ariana, and I sat in the studio with him. He played me this song… I was so scared if he would like [my verse] or not, but he did. He didn’t make me change anything.”
When discussing the line “Little bit of ratchet, little bougie” from her song “Mo Bounce,” Azalea says she’s feeling more expensive than did at the time of the song’s release in 2017. “I am pretty addicted to yachts,” she admits after getting the comment from her team off-camera, “I don’t like yachts if the master bedroom doesn’t have balconies… if you have a boat and you cannot open the sides to balconies on your bedroom are you really boujee?”
She also proved her boujee power when she revealed her luxurious Rolls Royce car was recently stolen. “It would be my favorite car if it was still in my driveway,” she joked, before adding “But it’s not so I will be getting myself another one for Christmas!”
Azalea aced her “Know Your Lyrics” test, and revealed the trick to remembering was reciting the whole verse. “I have to go the whole way down a verse to know [the song] — to pull it out of my brain because everything is saved in segments,” she said. Watch the full breakdown above.