Peaches

Actually, speaking of copyright and intellectual property.

When I was doing that DVD, those vignettes for their tour DVD, there was a segment in there, in Gwen's vignette, where she was exercising, probably in that same room in New York, if I'm thinking about it, but she was exercising to, I think it was Peaches, And the lawyers were like, ah, we can't use that.

There's going to be copyright.

Peaches will have to get paid, even though it was just in the background.

I said, no problem.

I got a song.

And they may know you.

They may not know you, right? But they do know Pat Benatar and they do know Nico Case and they do know Peaches.

I'm a musician.

I used to be a rock promoter.

I know all these folks.

That's why I've been able to bring them into this zone and have these conversations.

And I'm seeing the power of those conversations down to Peaches and recommending vaginal estrogen for her.

Let me tell you, Dr. Rubin, that was a bucket list moment.

Actually, I have taken over Aux at bars, danced on stage to the song, so it can be a great, great, great song and happy and in rage moments.

But this is the song Peaches Boys Want to Be Her.

I absolutely love the song.

I listened to it yesterday, actually.

love that song

too.

And Peaches is so amazing and is definitely one of those artists that subverts what you expect a woman to look like.

Does Peaches identify as a woman?

There's two more things we have to say since this is the only time we'll be talking about Meatloaf in the 2000s chart.

Firstly, I want to shout out the version of this song that is done live by Peaches, the electroclash artist best known for Fuck the Pain Away.

It's quite a faithful cover, sort of musically, but she, of course, her songs are about sex mostly, so she changes a lot of the lyrics you can sort of imagine.

it's the sort of things like when you fist me like this and you suck me like that you know it's a lot of that for quite a long time but good i'm making it sound bad but it is in fact good and the last thing we have to say about meatloaf is because this is the only time we'll be talking about him and because he sadly is no longer with us we have to pay tribute to his best ever work which of course is when he played dennis the bus driver in spice with the movie r.i.p my spice bus driving king So that takes us into the top five and it takes us straight to our should have been a number one of the week.

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In the '90s, Toronto's Merrill Nisker, AKA Peaches, went from being a school teacher to a pioneer of electroclash, a genre that blends DIY punk with electronic sounds.

F the pain away.

The defiant lyrics of her track F the Pain Away made her a club favorite in the 2000s.

But it's really her live performances that have made her an unforgettable artist.

France 24 met up with her in the midst of her world tour and ahead of her 60th birthday.

Hi, I'm Peaches, and this is France 24.

Hi, Peaches.

Wheelchair Sports Camp's been blowing up lately.

They've been opening up for Peaches on that tour.

Now they're opening up for Queens of the Stone Age and the Pixies on that tour.

I know, I know.

It was a very ambitious album with a lot of competing identities.

It included work with artists and producers, including Sia, M.I.A., Peaches, Lady Tron, La Tigre, and Santa Gold.

And she tried to meld electro-pop, R&B, dance, experimental pop, sexuality, futuristic imagery, as well as paying homage, I guess, to her baby boy.

So that was difficult to communicate because, and also in the marketing, everything's very sexual that we've seen.

But why this particular song?

Peaches.

Oh, I love Peaches.

Who doesn't love Peaches? She's just incredible.

We went to...

Dorian and I went to see Peaches at the rescue rooms in Nottingham around the same time.

We were probably in the band by this point.

I think Emma was there as well.

That works.

Does no one know The Teaches of Peaches? It's just me?

Do you feel good about that?

Yeah, I don't know what that is.

[laughs] I'm just listening to you.

Feel good about doing Fergie?

That's not Fergie, it's Peaches.

[laughs]