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℗ 1990 Virgin Records America, Inc. Written by Iggy Pop / Produced by Don Was “Candy“ is a song from Iggy Pop's ninth solo album, Brick by Brick. A duet with Kate Pierson of the B-52's, it was the album's second single, in September 1990. It became the biggest mainstream hit of Pop's career, as he reached the Top 40 in the United States for the first and only time. The song additionally peaked within the top 10 in Australia, Belgium and the Netherlands. “I've written one good pop song: 'Candy',“ he noted. “It's a very decent, proper pop song, but that's as far as that went.“ Background: The initial narrator is a man (Pop) who grieves a lost love. Following the first chorus, the perspective of the woman (Pierson) is heard. She expresses, unbeknownst to the man, that she misses him too. According to Pop, the lyrics refer to a teenage girlfriend, Betsy: I was looking back on my relationship with her, and I thoug
