Peaches: Impeach My Bush

[KiwiCoromandel]

Peaches (real name Merrill Nisker) is a cross between Into the Groove era Madonna, Buffalo Stance era Neneh Cherry, and a modern-day Joan Jett (who sings with Peaches on the raunchy You Love It). The thing that makes her unique is the glitchy electro groove that's the core of her music.

She's open about her sexual politics and her carnal shenanigans - and if you don't like her music, don't listen.

Impeach My Bush is more accessible than her confrontational and annoying second album, Father[expletive], from 2004. Largely that's thanks to riffy tracks like Do Ya, You Love It, and Give Er. This album is also more ambitious because, while her first two were almost entirely machine made, Impeach My Bush has live instruments courtesy of guests like Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age) and drummer Samantha Maloney (Hole).

The lyrics (like those in Slippery Dick and Tent In Your Pants) are what might put some off. It's explicit stuff that can't be written here, but don't be a prude. This is fun, playful and sexy, and that's a pretty good threesome.

source:AP

[DudeAsInCool]

The lyrics (like those in Slippery Dick and Tent In Your Pants) are what might put some off. It's explicit stuff that can't be written here, but don't be a prude. This is fun, playful and sexy, and that's a pretty good threesome.

source:AP

Is she a trans-sexual?

[KiwiCoromandel]

Is she a trans-sexual?

not too sure mate.....certainly looks like it......there`s definitely some sort of "let`s all party together" undertone there....definitely a character.....a sort of punk/street/heavy-duty/metal type....plays the guitar too....she`s worked with a lot of punk type artists in the past..iggy pop, for instance....i`m going to have a listen to some of her stuff....check her site out... :)

http://www.peachesrocks.com/site/navframes.html

image:realbrighton.com

[KiwiCoromandel]

Peaches (artist).....

Merrill Beth Nisker (b. 1968; Toronto, Canada), better known as Peaches, is an electroclash artist. Her songs are mainly concerned with sex. She lives and works in Berlin. She plays almost all the instruments for her songs, programs her own electronic beats and produces her records.

Her songs have been featured in movies such as Mean Girls, My Little Eye and Lost in Translation. Her music has also been featured on Showtime's The L Word television series. Peaches performed guest vocals on Pink's album Try This, on the song "Oh My God." Her lyrics are discussed as part of the queer-studies course curriculum at the University of Toronto, and she has been invited to lecture at the Contemporary Music Academy in Berlin. Her most notorious song, "Fuck the Pain Away," is also the name of an electro night club in Brighton.

Peaches' music is preoccupied with gender identity. Her lyrics and live shows self-consciously blur the distinction between male and female; she appears on the cover of her second album Fatherfucker with a full beard. When asked if she had chosen the title for shock value, she commented:

Why do we call our mothers motherfuckers? Why do we stub our toe and say, "Aww motherfucker!"? What is motherfucker? ... We use it in our everyday language, and it's such an insanely intense word. I'm not one to shy away from these obscene terms that we actually have in our mainstream. Motherfucker is a very mainstream word. But if we're going to use motherfucker, why don't we use fatherfucker? I'm just trying to be even.

She disputes accusations of "penis envy," preferring the term "hermaphrodite envy" since "there is so much male and female in us all." Nevertheless, she does not shy away from identifying herself as a sexual being, although she rejects the sanitized portrayal of women in popular music.

Although she does not hold a teaching degree, she taught at private schools before her career in music.

Peaches will be the opening act for Nine Inch Nails during the second half of their summer 2006 U.S. tour.

source:Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peaches_(artist)