Iggy Azalea visits WIRED to answer her most searched questions from Google. What is Iggy Azalea’s real name? What was her childhood like? When did Iggy move to America? Does she have any children? What is her new crowdfunding platform DreamVault about? Iggy Azalea answers these questions and plenty more on the WIRED Autocomplete Interview.
Iggy Azalea is a partner and creative director at Unreal Mobile, spearheading the charge in the brand's rebranding. Learn more at: https://www.unrealmobile.com/
Director: Justin Wolfson
Director of Photography: Brad Wickham
Editor: Michael Suyeda
Talent: Iggy Azalea
Line Producer: Joseph Buscemi
Associate Producer: Brandon White
Production Manager: Peter Brunette
Production Coordinator: Rhyan Lark
Talent Booker: Paige Garbarini
Camera Operator: Christopher Eustache
Sound Mixer: Michael Guggino
Production Assistant: Sonia Butt
Post Production Supervisor: Christian Olguin
Post Production Coordinator: Ian Bryant
Supervising Editor: Doug Larsen
Assistant Editor: Billy Ward
Iggy Azalea is a partner and creative director at Unreal Mobile, spearheading the charge in the brand's rebranding. Learn more at: https://www.unrealmobile.com/
Director: Justin Wolfson
Director of Photography: Brad Wickham
Editor: Michael Suyeda
Talent: Iggy Azalea
Line Producer: Joseph Buscemi
Associate Producer: Brandon White
Production Manager: Peter Brunette
Production Coordinator: Rhyan Lark
Talent Booker: Paige Garbarini
Camera Operator: Christopher Eustache
Sound Mixer: Michael Guggino
Production Assistant: Sonia Butt
Post Production Supervisor: Christian Olguin
Post Production Coordinator: Ian Bryant
Supervising Editor: Doug Larsen
Assistant Editor: Billy Ward
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00:00What's up guys, I'm Iggy Azalea and I'm here for my Wired Autocomplete interview.
00:07Okay, so I just hold and I peel.
00:13What is Iggy Azalea's real name?
00:17I actually really like my real name, it is Amethyst Amelia Kelly.
00:21The reason I didn't use it is because it's just too serious and I am a gigantic idiot.
00:28So I used my email recovery password as my stage name.
00:33My dog's name is Iggy and I grew up on Azalea Street, so that is how I got this name.
00:38But my real one is Amethyst.
00:40Where did Iggy Azalea get her name?
00:43Well, we know.
00:45I got my name from my email recovery password.
00:48But don't worry, I've changed my email since then, so you cannot hack me.
00:51What does Iggy Azalea do now?
00:55A bit of this and a bit of that.
00:56I think I just do chaos and mischief in general.
00:59That's what I've done my whole life really.
01:00Different subcategories of naughtiness is what I do.
01:03Okay, next.
01:05Thank you.
01:07What song made by Iggy Azalea?
01:14Oh, what song made Iggy Azalea famous?
01:16I think there's three answers.
01:18One was my first song that got me a record deal and that's a song about a cat, a pussy cat.
01:24And then there's work, work, work, work, working on my...
01:28A lot of people love that.
01:29But my biggest song that I think most people probably first got introduced was Fancy.
01:35What is Iggy Azalea's most popular song?
01:39I think it's clear that it's Fancy because that record is Diamond.
01:43And so you can't really compete with the Diamond record, can you?
01:46It actually had a different name.
01:48It was called Leave It when I recorded it and I was going to leave it off my album.
01:52But then the producers that I did it with, they restructured it and changed parts of my verse
01:58and kind of like moved them and shuffled them around.
02:01And suddenly it was way catchier.
02:03So I do owe it a little bit to the whole team to make Fancy because I made Leave It
02:07and then they rearranged and they made it Fancy.
02:09What is the song Fancy by Iggy Azalea about?
02:16I think you already know what it's about, don't you?
02:18It's about being so fancy.
02:20It's just about being fabulous and feeling good.
02:22And I think everybody gets ready and they're about to go somewhere and they just feel so good
02:26and they turn that song on.
02:27Fancy is just that moment.
02:28It's your getting ready moment.
02:30Thank you.
02:31What was Iggy Azalea's childhood like?
02:36Very feral.
02:37I just used to ride around in the bush all day long, really.
02:40I'm from a very small town called Mullumbimby.
02:42When I lived there, it had about 2,500 people in it.
02:44It's very rural.
02:46I lived on about 24 acres with a bunch of chickens and cows.
02:50And we used to do stuff like duck under the barbed wire fence and try to touch a bull
02:56and run away from it without it trying to kill you and trying to get turtles in little lakes
03:02and letting them bite your fingers.
03:03I was a nature girl.
03:04That's what I did.
03:05And then I fell in love with music.
03:06And so I wanted to come to America because I think that some of the greatest musicians
03:10of all time are American.
03:12I just wanted to get close to people that are the best at what I wanted to do.
03:16When did Iggy Azalea move to America?
03:19Am I a little bit psychic?
03:21I think I'm a little psychic.
03:22I moved to America when I was 16.
03:24So I was able to do school online.
03:26And I came over to Miami, not expecting that I would really be able to stay.
03:32But I figured it out.
03:32I made a way.
03:33And so yeah, I'm 34 now.
03:35I've been here since I was 16.
03:37Does Iggy Azalea have long fingernails that can't peel this?
03:41Yes, I do.
03:42Does Iggy Azalea have siblings?
03:44I do.
03:44I have two siblings.
03:46My sister's name is Emerald.
03:47She's like a roller derby looking girl.
03:49She's covered in tattoos.
03:50And she's like Tony Hawk.
03:51She does inline dirt ramp skating and crazy flips and stuff.
03:55She's way braver than I ever could be.
03:57She roller skates and she makes roller skates and sells them.
04:00It's pretty cool.
04:00And my brother, his name is Matthias.
04:03I call him Matt.
04:04And he likes to take photographs and stuff like that for me.
04:07And he's really smart and cool.
04:09And he is living at my house right now, actually.
04:11We're very close.
04:12Iggy Azalea.
04:14Children, I only have one child.
04:17His name is Onyx.
04:19I clearly have a crystal thing going on here, guys.
04:21He just turned four last month.
04:23I think the reason why I'm so successful is because my mom just like gassed me up
04:26with everything that I did.
04:28I try to equip my son and make sure that he's like as emotionally balanced.
04:31And I try to be kind to him.
04:33I don't try to freak out if he spills something, all those sorts of things.
04:37Because sometimes I'd be scared of my father.
04:39So I try not to be scary in those moments when you can get frustrated as a parent.
04:44And I try to be really encouraging.
04:46He could do the worst cartwheel ever.
04:47And I'll tell him he's a gymnast.
04:49Because I think it's really important that as a parent, we encourage our children,
04:53even beyond what their skill level really is at the time.
04:55Because it can take you very far when you have self-belief.
04:58And so I really care about instilling that in my son a lot.
05:01Whee!
05:02Thank you.
05:03These ones are scarier because I just don't know where they're going.
05:06Iggy Azalea.
05:08Yellow outfit.
05:09I would assume this is the fancy outfit when I dressed up as Cher from Clueless.
05:15I love making music videos that are recreations of some of my favorite films.
05:21So of course, I wanted to do Clueless because it's a cult classic.
05:26Absolutely.
05:26My first thing when I thought of this was that I wanted to wear the yellow plaid outfit.
05:31And I seen a lot of Halloween outfits that year.
05:33Which made me very proud.
05:35Because I think if someone dresses up as something you did for Halloween,
05:38that's when you know you really made it.
05:39Iggy Azalea.
05:41Best songs.
05:43Well, I don't know.
05:43That's subjective.
05:44Are you asking my favorite songs?
05:46I think my best song, if I had to pick just one, my favorite would be Work.
05:51Because it's about my life and how I got here.
05:54And it's catchy.
05:55And you can throw a little ass to it.
05:57Which I don't think I like to do.
05:59But it's still kind of intellectual.
06:01And it has lots of good punchlines.
06:02That is my favorite song still of all time.
06:05Iggy Azalea, Black Widow.
06:07That's actually my son's favorite song of mine.
06:10It was my birthday last week.
06:11And he made me a birthday cup with a spider on it.
06:15And he told me, that's a Black Widow.
06:17So I still have fans for Black Widow.
06:19My son really likes it.
06:20He likes the samurai sword fighting in the video.
06:23Iggy Azalea, Black Widow.
06:24Onyx's favorite song.
06:26Thank you.
06:27Iggy Azalea at 16.
06:30Well, at 16, I had no money, no family.
06:32And I was in the middle of Miami.
06:34Yeah, I showed up by myself.
06:36I had some friends that I met on like online chat rooms and stuff like that.
06:39That I've been talking to for some years.
06:41That we would webcam together and things like that.
06:44And one of them lived in Miami.
06:46So that was the only person that I knew in America.
06:48So I didn't have money or family.
06:51But I did have a friend.
06:53And they were my real life friend all the way.
06:56Even still.
06:56So it's been many, many years.
06:58Iggy Azalea, DreamVault.
07:00Yes, I have a company called DreamVault actually.
07:03And I am launching it.
07:04And I'm really excited about it.
07:05It's a company where if you have a dream, you can go to this platform.
07:09And you can use your friends or your family, fans.
07:12If you have them.
07:13Your community basically to make your dreams happen.
07:15And I think it's really cool.
07:16Because for me, I know I had to utilize so many people to get to the top.
07:20And I think anybody will tell you that.
07:21That's why they have award speeches, right?
07:23To thank everyone.
07:24So I wanted to create a space where instead of having to do your own outreach.
07:29I could make it a little easier for you to kind of achieve whatever your crazy dream is.
07:34And that's what DreamVault is.
07:35So check it out.
07:36Iggy Azalea, Ariana Grande.
07:38Well, I just think of Ariana Grande.
07:40And I think she's just a floating little delightful little cloud.
07:44I love her.
07:44And I love our song, Problem.
07:46And I love that I had number one with Fancy.
07:48And number two with Ariana.
07:49Because I think she's an icon.
07:51And it's such an honor to have that song with her.
07:53Iggy Azalea, music videos.
07:55Well, I'm glad people are searching this.
07:57Because music videos are my favorite thing about when I made music.
08:00That was always the thing I had the most fun with.
08:03I love making up creative crazy concepts.
08:05And so to have a song is fun.
08:07But to get to put a visual to it, that's always my favorite.
08:10So I'm glad people want to Google them.
08:13Wee!
08:14Well, that's all my boards.
08:15I hope you know me a little bit better now.
08:17And that I can answer some of the questions.
08:19Because the internet is a confusing place.
08:21But you've heard it from me now.
08:22I had fun.
08:23I get a little scared to know what you might be Googling about me.
08:26But it's actually, it's not so bad.
08:28It's cool stuff.
08:30And I was happy to talk about it.
08:31Until next time.
08:32Bye!