| Peaches – Tent In Your Pants Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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this is one song that is very clever--it's both funny and witty. Most of her songs to not reach the quality of writing shown in this song, unfortunately. She's taken a sexual observation and developed into a hyperbole-tastic comical metaphor. You can almost see the evolution of the song from a dick joke to full-on metaphysical worship of a gigantic phallus. A: Dude, that is one serious pants-tent. B: damn, you are right!...that tent could house a 3-ring circus! A: that tent could take in every homeless person in California! etc. Is the reference to France a nod to "I see London, I see France..." or just picked for the rhyme? |
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| Peaches – Kick It Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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but it's not just a pair of rockers getting sexual (flirting seems to soft a word). they are bantering and poking fun at the other's expense, and mocking the other's songs and persona. what elevates this above other duets/collaborations is the fact that are SO SIMILAR AS ARTISTS! Think about(a) their energetic on-stage personas, (b) their punk/rebel messages of liberation (sexual or otherwise), and (c) their desire to break away from the soul-less, cookie-cutter pop star stereotypes and be fearless iconoclasts. That last one, point c, is ESPECIALLY visible in the music video: together they destroy zombies that are obvious effigies of superficial pop stars and their uninspired, boring music. It is no accident that one is in *a bikini* and it is also no accident that the setting could easily be a recording studio office building. |
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| Peaches – Fuck the Pain Away Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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sigh. Peaches may seem shallow to have her mind focused on one thing (sex!) but she is an artist in every sense of the word. Like Erica Jong did with 'Fear of Flying' Peaches defies social mores and expresses her sexuality freely and un-apologetically. Her sexually-empowered anthems send a message to the world that her (and all females') sexuality is every bit as primitive and powerful as a man's can be. Every bit a tool of conquest and intimidation as any rapist or date-rapist's I dare you to find a performing artist who does this with as much passion and aggression as Peaches. Liz Phair ('Fu@k and Run'), Lady Gaga ("I wanna take a ride on your...stick"), Madonna ('Like a Virgin') etc.--these women are sexually explicit only when the context is innocent, related to a loving relationship (or perhaps the search for one, the need for one). Peaches does not feel the need to prove her female virtue (or female humility). Her sexuality is its own reason for existence. "Fuck and run...ever since I was 17" Liz Phair wants more from men who fuck and run: the respect of a devoted lover? the intimacy, the picket fence? Her voice is the voice of an angry clit--the one that is neglected, ignored, feared and terminally hungry for physical attention. Hungry for conquests, hungry for power. |
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