Editing Iggy Pop (section)

=== 2000s ===
Pop produced 2001's ''[[Beat 'Em Up]]'', which gave birth to [[the Trolls]], releasing the single "Football" featuring Trolls alumni Whitey Kirst and brother Alex.
In 2005, Pop appeared, along with Madonna, [[Little Richard]], [[Bootsy Collins]], and [[the Roots]]' [[Questlove]], in an American TV commercial for the [[Motorola ROKR]] phone. In early 2006, Pop and the Stooges played in Australia and New Zealand for the [[Big Day Out]]. They also began work on a new album, ''[[The Weirdness]]'', which was recorded by [[Steve Albini]] and released in March 2007. In August 2006, Pop and the Stooges performed at the [[A Campingflight to Lowlands Paradise|Lowlands]] pop festival in the Netherlands, Hodokvas in [[Slovakia]] and in the [[Sziget Festival]] in [[Budapest]].

Author [[Paul Trynka]] completed a biography of Pop (with his blessing) called ''Open Up and Bleed'', published in early 2007. In February 2007, Pop and the Stooges played at [[Bam Margera]]'s [[Bam's Unholy Union|wedding]] and Pop appeared on the single "[[Punkrocker (song)|Punkrocker]]" with the [[Teddybears (band)|Teddybears]] in a [[Cadillac]] television commercial. Pop was also the voice of Lil' Rummy on the [[Comedy Central]] cartoon ''[[Lil' Bush]]'' and confirmed that he has done voices for ''[[American Dad!]]'' and ''[[Grand Theft Auto IV]]'',<ref>[http://www.craveonline.com/music/articles/04648031/iggy_pop_on_lil_bush_and_the_stooges.html Pop Pop on Lil' Bush and The Stooges] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131228194914/http://www.craveonline.com/music/articles/04648031/iggy_pop_on_lil_bush_and_the_stooges.html |date=December 28, 2013}}</ref> which also included the Stooges song "[[I Wanna Be Your Dog]]" (though the game's manual credited Iggy Pop as the artist).

[[File:Iggy Pop Memphis 2007.jpg|thumb|Iggy Pop at Beale Street Music Festival, [[Memphis in May]], 2007]]

Pop guested on ''[[Profanation (Preparation for a Coming Darkness)|Profanation]]'', the new album by the [[Bill Laswell]]-helmed group [[Praxis (band)|Praxis]], which was released on January 1, 2008.

Pop collaborated with [[Danger Mouse (music producer)|Danger Mouse]] and [[Sparklehorse]] on the album ''Dark Night of the Soul'', singing the track "Pain".

Pop's fifteenth solo album, ''[[Préliminaires]]'', was released on June 2, 2009. Inspired by a novel by French author [[Michel Houellebecq]] called ''La Possibilité d'une île'' (2005; Trans. as ''[[The Possibility of an Island]]'' by Gavin Bowd, 2006), Pop was approached to provide the soundtrack for a documentary film on Houellebecq and his attempts to make a film from his novel. He describes this new release as a "quieter album with some jazz overtones", the first single off the album, "King of the Dogs", bearing a sound strongly influenced by [[Dixieland|New Orleans jazz]] musicians such as [[Louis Armstrong]] and [[Jelly Roll Morton]]. Pop said that the song was his response to being "sick of listening to idiot thugs with guitars banging out crappy music". The album is available on legal download sites, CD, and a deluxe box set is available at only 6000 units worldwide. This box set contains the ''Préliminaires'' album, a collector "Les Feuilles Mortes" b/w "King of the Dogs" 7&nbsp;inch, the cover of which is Pop's portrait by [[Marjane Satrapi]], and a 38-page booklet of drawings also by Marjane Satrapi.

In January 2009, Pop was signed up as the face of [[Swiftcover]], the UK-based online insurance company.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.brandrepublic.com/News/871141/Iggy-Pop-fronts-Swiftcover-insurance-ad |title=Iggy Pop fronts Swiftcover insurance ad – Brand Republic News |work=Brand Republic |date=January 6, 2009 |access-date=September 8, 2010}}</ref> He fronted a £25&nbsp;million TV ad campaign for [[Swiftcover]], using the strapline "Get a Life".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.easier.com/view/Finance/Insurance/Car/article-224426.html |title=Iggy Pop to front £25&nbsp;million car insurance ad campaign |publisher=Easier |date=January 2, 2009 |access-date=September 8, 2010}}</ref> The advert was then banned by the Advertising Standards Authority on April 28, 2009, for being misleading – it implied that Pop himself had an insurance policy with Swiftcover when at the time the company did not insure musicians.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8023358.stm |work=BBC News |title=Iggy Pop advert deemed misleading |date=April 28, 2009 |access-date=April 2, 2010}}</ref>