Fue inspirada en la novia de Iggy llamada Betsy.

Es un medio tiempo melódico cargado de dramatismo en el que el músico canta a dúo con la entonces vocalista del grupo B-52's. El álbum fue producido por Don Was, y la canción ha sido uno de los grandes éxitos de Iggy junto a Kate Pierson. Candy, (Caramelo) canción de Iggy Pop con Kate Pierson del álbum Brick by Brick, publicada el 19 de septiembre de 1990.'Candy' reappeared on the 1996 compilation Nude & Rude: The Best of Iggy Pop and the 2005 two-disc collection A Million in Prizes: The Anthology. 'It's a very decent, proper pop song, but that's as far as that went.' The cover was drawn by American cartoonist Charles Burns. 'I've written one good pop song: 'Candy',' he noted. The song additionally peaked within the top 10 in Australia, Belgium and the Netherlands. 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. A duet with Kate Pierson of The B-52's, it was the album's second single, in September 1990. 'Candy' is a song from Iggy Pop's ninth solo album, Brick by Brick.

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