Songfacts®:

• I'll fix my face and go
  Go and do the morning show
  
  This ennui-filled ballad finds Iggy Pop putting on a happy face when he's actually down in the dumps. He told NME it hits on "disappointed areas where I don't feel 100 percent wunderbar."
• Should you happen upon Pop wearing a smile during his media duties, it's not necessarily a true reflection of his happiness. In essence, Iggy has become adept at masking his inner anguish. "Some days you have to put on a persona," he admitted to Mojo magazine. "Really, including myself. It's when you get that terrible, hopeless, deep blue feeling. When things are that way, and you have to go do what you're supposed to do, at least be cheerful."
• Iggy Pop wrote "Morning Show" with producer Andrew Watt (Ozzy Osbourne, Post Malone and Justin Bieber). "Andrew asked me if I was interested in doing a ballad, and I said yes," Pop told Apple Music. "This was something he already had in his pocket. It's like a Stones-type ballad. I never talked to him about it, but I'm guessing that was the inspiration. But approached it more like a mature country singer would."
• Probably the best-known song about putting on a happy face when you're feeling sad is Smokey Robinson & The Miracles' "The Tears of a Clown." Other examples include The Platters' "The Great Pretender" and Paramore's "Fake Happy."