![]() ![]() I’d like to cover it for my next album.’ I told him I was making a new album and asked if I could write a duet for us where we’re kind of making fun of each other but using our own lyrics and stuff? He said ‘Sure. He phoned me and left an answering machine message – who leaves answering machine messages? It said: ‘Hey, I love your song ‘Rock Show’. They laughed and said ‘Oh, you want Bowie to come too?’ But he showed up and after the show he asked for my number. “It was my first time playing in Florida, the venue asked if I had a guest list, I was like, ‘Yeah, Iggy Pop’. His girlfriend Nina was like, ‘Iggy, do you know this is Peaches? We’re going to go see her in Miami.’ And he’s like, ‘Oh.’ We didn’t know each other but somehow we got emotional. We looked at each other, held hands and just start crying. He’d just come off stage, he’s such an incredible performer. It was 2002, Pharrell Williams was there and The Hives. “I met Iggy Pop at the Shortlist Music Prize, the US version of the Mercury Prize. When you need that female-identifying empowerment moment, that’s the song.” “AA XXX” Never met a girl like you before iggy pop tv#It’s used in TV and film even more than ‘Fuck The Pain Away’. All the rhymes just worked, and I was so excited that I got in references to Stonewall, bar brawls… ‘The way you rock, non-stop’, and ‘She Bop’ which is a Cyndi Lauper song about masturbation. Then it just wrote itself in front of us. One day I came to Greg and was like, ‘I have the riff. “I just kept listening to TNT hoping something would come to me. I wanted to switch it around so in mine the boys want to be her and the girls want to be her. I’m speaking in very binary sense, of course, we’re talking about 15 years ago. These songs never had a woman focus – everybody just wanted to fuck the woman. That song is so simple but I like its style and I wanted to make a version of it. AC/DC with Bon Scott to me is a great fucking band – nobody wore jeans tighter than him. There’s a million of those songs but the one that I was obsessed with is TNT by AC/DC. “I was working with Greg Kurstin for my third album and I was obsessed with all these rock songs from my past about that guy who’s coming to town and all the women want to fuck him and all the men want to be him. Comedy is not fluff for me and art is not fluff for me.” “BOYS WANT TO BE HER” To me, comedy is a huge force in changing minds and hearts and making statements. I’m a huge Tina Fey fan so that was such a big deal for me to be recognised by her comedy and intelligence, and what she was doing at the time. “I wanted my first album to be songs that I was writing fresh so I ended up putting it on my second album, and then later it was used in Mean Girls. We weren’t like ‘I see his eyes rollin’ back in his head.’ When I went solo I decided I was gonna do it the way I wanted and so the song shapeshifted. The track was different then, it was more raw. ‘Operate’ was the only exception because they just thought it was something kind of different. I had a demo for this song but it was a rule that if it wasn’t a song we all wrote together in the same room, we couldn’t play it. It was the first time I played keyboards and used synthesisers – before that I thought synthesisers sucked. Before Peaches I had a band called The Shit, which was four musicians who were very dissatisfied with their own projects. ![]() “Operate was actually the first song I ever wrote. And it’s still happening, every couple of years it has a new lease of life because it's one of those coming-of-age songs.” “OPERATE” How can you be mad at that? It’s a fucking beautiful feeling. Never met a girl like you before iggy pop free#I’ve mine with The Cramps, The Runaways or The Violent Femmes – songs from when I first felt like I was free to be me. Certain songs represent a coming-of-age for people. “I’m totally not mad at it becoming my signature song. I put it on a demo because I was thinking maybe I’ll get someone to help me produce it ‘cos I didn’t know what I was doing, you know? But when I’d ask musicians or producers, nobody ever mentioned the production quality or the levels, they just said it sounds fucking cool. If you give me $5 you can have it.’ So I’m like, ‘Yeah, here.’ When I played it back, I was like, ‘Oh, this sounds cool.’ And that’s the song – I never changed it. ![]() Afterwards the sound woman said, ‘Oh, I recorded your set on a cassette. The first time I really put it together, I was playing a small gig opening for a friend back in Toronto for probably 15 people. She sings ‘You’re real tough cookie with a long history of breaking little hearts like you wanted me.’ And somehow that lead me to ‘Sucking on my titties like you wanted me’. “I remember being on a plane thinking about the Pat Benatar song ‘Hit Me With Your Best Shot’. ![]()
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