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Peaches · Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond

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  Speaker 1: Pushkin. Peaches has spent more than two decades pushing boundaries
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  Speaker 1: and electronic music and performance art, inspiring the look and
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  Speaker 1: sound of edgy pop artists like Lady Gaga and Grimes.
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  Speaker 1: But long before she was known for her outrageous stage shows,
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  Speaker 1: Peaches got her start as part of a folk trio
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  Speaker 1: in Toronto. It was in the mid nineties, after discovering
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  Speaker 1: she could become a one woman band with her rolling
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  Speaker 1: drum machine, that Peaches began developing a provocative new persona.
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  Speaker 1: In two thousands, she moved to Berlin and released The
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  Speaker 1: Teaches of Peaches, featuring the song Fuck the Pain Away.
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  Speaker 1: The track has been cited by Tom York as an
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  Speaker 1: inspiration while making Radioheads in Rainbows, and has appeared in
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  Speaker 1: countless movies and TV shows, including South Park, Gloss in
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  Speaker 1: Translation in The Handmaid's Tale. Peaches has spent the last
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  Speaker 1: several years creating works for stage and screen, including serving
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  Speaker 1: as a subject for two recent documentaries. Now, after more
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  Speaker 1: than a decade, she's returning with No Lube So Rude,
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  Speaker 1: her first album in over ten years, recorded in Berlin
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  Speaker 1: with producer The Squirt Deluxe. On today's episode, Lea Rose
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  Speaker 1: talks to Peach is about making No Lubes so rude,
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  Speaker 1: and how the album addresses identity, bodily autonomy and offers
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  Speaker 1: an antidote for all the friction in the world. Peaches
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  Speaker 1: also discusses how she recently discovered her dad pleaded with
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  Speaker 1: the bar Mitzvah band to give her her first shot
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  Speaker 1: performing live on stage, and she shares her deep love
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  Speaker 1: of seventies rock and roll trivia. This is Broken Record,
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  Speaker 1: real musicians, real conversations. Here's Leah roodse with Peaches. Head
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  Speaker 1: over to YouTube dot com slash Broken Record podcast to
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  Speaker 1: see the full video interview.
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  Speaker 2: It's so funny.
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  Speaker 3: I was just watching different video interviews and reading old
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  Speaker 3: interviews and stuff, and I read about your first ever
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  Speaker 3: experience with the stage and you actually started as a
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  Speaker 3: wedding singer.
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  Speaker 4: I started as about Mitzvah, bar Mitzvah singer.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, no, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I have a lot of cousins in New York, and
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  Speaker 4: when I was little, I don't know I was. I
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  Speaker 4: love music. There was no musical talent in my family.
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  Speaker 4: We listened to a lot of albums and I was
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  Speaker 4: at my cousin's bar Mitzvah in New York where it
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  Speaker 4: was like, you know, a big deal. They had the
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  Speaker 4: bar Mitzvah band, and I turned to my mom and
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  Speaker 4: I said, can I sing with the band? And she's like,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, can you sing? You know, which is
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  Speaker 4: just funny, Like I don't know why I thought the
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  Speaker 4: audacity of me. And I just learned this year that
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  Speaker 4: my dad actually bullied the bar Mitzvah band and said,
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  Speaker 4: my daughter wants to sing. Let her sing, because they
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  Speaker 4: I think they said no, but nobody told me that.
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  Speaker 4: And yeah, my dad said she wants to sing. Let
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  Speaker 4: her sing. This is something she wants to do. So
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  Speaker 4: I don't get to thank my dad for it now
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  Speaker 4: he's past, but I'm letting him know that that was
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  Speaker 4: a beautiful thing to do for me. And I sang
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  Speaker 4: Barber streisand the way we were, which is very inappropriate
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  Speaker 4: for a seven year old to sing about like a
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  Speaker 4: divorce breakup in the seventies, but that's what we used
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  Speaker 4: to listen to at home. So I sang that and
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  Speaker 4: Uncle Morris cried, Oh Wowmars cried, and then I had
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  Speaker 4: to sing that song at every barmits VN wedding up
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  Speaker 4: until I was a teenager and could say, listen, I
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  Speaker 4: can't do this anymore.
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  Speaker 3: Do you ever listen to that now? And reminisce like,
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  Speaker 3: is there any songs from your childhood that you listen
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  Speaker 3: to that you just love and makes you feel like
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  Speaker 3: warm and cozy?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: I mean I am a crazy song quiz fin. I
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  Speaker 4: don't know if you know this game where you like,
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  Speaker 4: I want to they play you like a part of
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  Speaker 4: a song and then you have to guess the artist
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  Speaker 4: and the song. And I cannot get enough of the seventies.
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  Speaker 4: I can sing every little every lyric from every song
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  Speaker 4: I know, every artist I know, like stupid trivia about it.
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  Speaker 4: So no, it warms my heart. And yeah, there's lots
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  Speaker 4: of albums from my childhood, like like Hair, the album
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  Speaker 4: Hair I used to like. You know, I'm sure that
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  Speaker 4: had a big influence on me listening to that or
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  Speaker 4: you know, it's funny. I listened to Neil Diamond live
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  Speaker 4: like whatever my parents had. Also ROBERTA. Flack, which was
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  Speaker 4: a huge one, which is first time ever I saw
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  Speaker 4: your face. That just kills me. Even talking about that
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  Speaker 4: song brings tears to my eyes.
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  Speaker 3: Oh that is such an intense, beautiful song. It's amazing
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  Speaker 3: speaking of hair. I was going to ask you about this.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sort of jumping around a little bit. Ye, I
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  Speaker 3: was going to ask you. So in the Teachers of
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  Speaker 3: Peaches documentary, a lot of the costumes for the review
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  Speaker 3: of Peaches that you were doing and going back through
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  Speaker 3: that album and bringing that back to the stage, a
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  Speaker 3: lot of hair, a lot of costumes with hair, like
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  Speaker 3: what's the hair about?
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  Speaker 2: Okay?
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  Speaker 4: Well, hair was very important to me as a symbol
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  Speaker 4: of understanding what beauty is when I was first starting Peaches, Like,
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  Speaker 4: why is it that if I don't shave my pubic hairs,
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  Speaker 4: I am dirty or gross, but only because I'm female identified.
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  Speaker 4: But if I grow the hair on top of my headlong,
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  Speaker 4: I am beautiful. Or if I have long eyelashes, I
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  Speaker 4: am a symbol of beauty. But if I shave my
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  Speaker 4: eyebrows then I'm weird. If I don't shave my legs
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  Speaker 4: or my armpit hairs, then again that is unacceptable. So
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  Speaker 4: it's just hair, and we all have it, and there
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  Speaker 4: are different standards for different constructs of gender. So it
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  Speaker 4: was me exploring that idea, and so I started with
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  Speaker 4: the little hot pants and the pubic hair, and I
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  Speaker 4: met Charlie Lymondo, who is a hairstylist who started when
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  Speaker 4: he was twelve. His uncle taught him how to do
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  Speaker 4: hair and he's done hair for everybody, every celebrity, every
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  Speaker 4: fashion show, you know, through the years. And he showed
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  Speaker 4: up in Berlin when I was when he was seventeen
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  Speaker 4: and said, I'm your addresser. Now he's French, I'm your
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  Speaker 4: addresser and just started doing my hair and cutting hair
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  Speaker 4: in dark rooms, literally in dark rooms in Berlin. And
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  Speaker 4: then he turned into.
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  Speaker 2: Hair like intentionally dark.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, like sex dark rooms that were dark.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay.
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  Speaker 4: And the first time he dyed my hair was during
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  Speaker 4: a DJ set where he hid anunder the DJ set
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  Speaker 4: and with bleach and a blow dryer and a bottle
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  Speaker 4: of and like a bottle of water and a bowl
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  Speaker 4: and he's like, hey, just come down, come up. And
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  Speaker 4: at one point I disappeared in the DJ set and
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  Speaker 4: came up with with blonde hair from and.
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  Speaker 3: Put on a nine minute song and you're like exactly,
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  Speaker 3: and people thought it was mad or where would I go?
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  Speaker 4: And when it came back and the people who were
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  Speaker 4: you know, a little too high or drunk, they were like, wow,
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  Speaker 4: like did you have blonde hair before it was really
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  Speaker 4: kind of exciting, and we started to do like performative things,
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  Speaker 4: and Charlie and I have collaborated a lot, and he
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  Speaker 4: makes hair fashion. He's also you know, moving into that.
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  Speaker 4: So some of those, all those outfits were made by
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  Speaker 4: Charlie and so they're quite amazing and so we use them.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and then that's carried over into the new project.
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  Speaker 3: It seems like I saw the newer photos on your
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  Speaker 3: in there's more hair. There's hair showing up in different places.
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  Speaker 4: There's hair. Yes, definitely, the theme you know that was hair.
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  Speaker 4: My themes have also been a lot you know, imagery
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  Speaker 4: of like the absurdity of our bodies and how we
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  Speaker 4: are shameful of them, and also making the ridiculous fun
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  Speaker 4: and question to like raise questions. So I had which
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  Speaker 4: Charlie also made a multi multi breast bathing suit, or
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  Speaker 4: like all Dick costumes, there's like a vagina head that
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  Speaker 4: I wear, or my dancers turn into huge vaginas. And
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  Speaker 4: this time around the theme is get Ready prolapse. Prolapse
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  Speaker 4: is like when it all just kind of blurts out.
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  Speaker 4: It's it's kind of like dropping gravity. So yeah, and
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  Speaker 4: also like growing, vulging, you know, festering, and so that's
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  Speaker 4: kind of I think it feel like where we're at
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  Speaker 4: understanding our bodies and understanding the world.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, we're yeah, so yeah, prolapse.
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  Speaker 3: So then that leads right into hanging Titties hang exactly.
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  Speaker 3: So tell me about Hanging Titties? Why is that the
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  Speaker 3: first song? And also when you're when you're sequencing an album,
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  Speaker 3: do you think of it sort of as like creating
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  Speaker 3: an arc? Or how do you put the songs together?
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  Speaker 3: Is it just what sounds good coming after another, like
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  Speaker 3: thinking like a DJ? Or how how does the sequencing
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  Speaker 3: work for you?
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  Speaker 4: It's all of that. It's definitely you know, you want
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  Speaker 4: to think thematically and you definitely want an arc, or
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  Speaker 4: I do because I I think of it as an album. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: so you do think about an arc, but you also
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  Speaker 4: have to make sure that the songs work together, and
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  Speaker 4: the same with when you're making a live show, which
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  Speaker 4: won't be the same kind of order because you listen
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  Speaker 4: differently than when you experience it live, I believe. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: So I thought it was just such a strong statement.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, can you say anything on this podcast?
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  Speaker 4: I guess so I don't know, so, I mean, I
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  Speaker 4: just thought it was so strong to just own the
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  Speaker 4: hanging titties as cunt, you know, like older than you
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  Speaker 4: looking so cunt. Oh look at you, all of my
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  Speaker 4: cunt thirsty much. My hanging titties hit like the punch, like,
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  Speaker 4: you know, because everybody's always like my teenies and I
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  Speaker 4: defy gravity and they're cute and you love them, and
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  Speaker 4: you know, which is great and that when you're that
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  Speaker 4: age and you have them, you should own it. So
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  Speaker 4: I'm owning what I have and I'm representing my age
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  Speaker 4: and owning it and you're loving it.
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  Speaker 3: How does it feel now that your body's changing and
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  Speaker 3: you're on stage and so much of you is revealed?
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  Speaker 2: At times?
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  Speaker 4: I think it's even more important. And that's that's I
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  Speaker 4: think by virtue of me being like that, that's that's strong.
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  Speaker 3: Does is there any apprehension like, oh fuck, like I
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  Speaker 3: have to get on stage like my body's changing.
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  Speaker 4: No, this is me, this is my this is also
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  Speaker 4: my reckoning, this is also my manifestation, like and come on,
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  Speaker 4: I'm not old.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not that old.
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  Speaker 4: I'm just and I'm also saying like come on, I'm
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  Speaker 4: not that old, like Also, we're living longer, you know,
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  Speaker 4: people are living till one hundred. You no longer have
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  Speaker 4: to think about your life in thirds, right, I think
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  Speaker 4: about it, I guess in thirds, and now you think
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  Speaker 4: of it in quarters. And also if you think about
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  Speaker 4: when you were young and your parents or your grandparents,
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  Speaker 4: what they what they experience as being that age, and
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  Speaker 4: it was it was a little it was different. They
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  Speaker 4: understood things different, they went through different things. They didn't
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  Speaker 4: have this pop culture experience that we do now and
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  Speaker 4: continue to have and find joy in. So you know,
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  Speaker 4: it's more like the kids, the parents and the grandparents
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  Speaker 4: are like, let's go, let's go, Like we understand coming
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  Speaker 4: together in physical spaces more than the younger generations do.
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  Speaker 3: So I read that you have been exploring yourself more
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  Speaker 3: deeply in recent years, and I'm just curious what that
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  Speaker 3: means and how or if that connects to the new
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  Speaker 3: album at all.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess exploring myself deeper sounds kind of elusive,
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  Speaker 4: but I guess what it means is, you know, at
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  Speaker 4: the age I'm at, there's a recogning that happening happens.
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  Speaker 4: This is a reckoning that's happening in terms of like,
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  Speaker 4: I feel like the work I have done has been
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  Speaker 4: very performative and very outward and very direct obviously, and
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  Speaker 4: I realize that a lot of them are manifestations. They're
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  Speaker 4: not always completely this is how I am, and we're
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  Speaker 4: never this is how I am. You know, they are manifestations.
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  Speaker 4: There are ways to help us come into these beings,
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  Speaker 4: and as we do, there's also voices behind, or little
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  Speaker 4: things behind, saying like what is the deeper meaning of that?
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  Speaker 4: Or what is what is your feeling? Even though you're
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  Speaker 4: doing those manifestations and putting them out in the world
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  Speaker 4: and performing them and discussing with a community and that
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  Speaker 4: helps also motivate themselves and mobilized people together and all
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  Speaker 4: those things, there's still things inside yourself that you need
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  Speaker 4: to reckon with. So that's where I think the exploration
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  Speaker 4: is showing up in the album. So there's still obviously
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  Speaker 4: me advocating and finding creative and humorous and entertainment ways
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  Speaker 4: and camp ways of dealing with the world around us,
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  Speaker 4: but I'm also dealing with myself.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be back with more from Peaches after the break.
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  Speaker 2: I know that you've been super busy.
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  Speaker 3: This is I think it's like your first full length
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  Speaker 3: album in ten years, but you've been doing a bunch
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  Speaker 3: of other stuff in the meantime. Yeah, why now, like,
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  Speaker 3: why did you decide to do the album now? Was
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  Speaker 3: it something that you always knew you wanted to do
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  Speaker 3: another album, or did it sort of just come together organically.
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  Speaker 4: I did want to do another album. I did a
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  Speaker 4: teaches of Peach's twenty year anniversary tour actually twenty two
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  Speaker 4: years after because of COVID, so we had to delay
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  Speaker 4: it a little bit, but it again, you know, and
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  Speaker 4: I also was still playing live a lot. And I
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  Speaker 4: understand that I have a huge body of work and
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  Speaker 4: a legacy and a point of view, and that I
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  Speaker 4: could be a sort of review of myself, you know,
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  Speaker 4: just take the body of work and keep doing it.
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  Speaker 4: But I just thought, after all the projects I've been doing,
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  Speaker 4: let's go back to music, and let's let's get out
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  Speaker 4: there with new material and fresh, fresh takes on what
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  Speaker 4: is going on with me where I'm at now, and
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  Speaker 4: also with the world, with the world and where it's at,
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  Speaker 4: and you know, it's very important to express these new
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  Speaker 4: ideas and also hearing people and coming together, you know,
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  Speaker 4: physically coming together and also getting out here and talking
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  Speaker 4: to you everybody, and you know, because you put out
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  Speaker 4: a new album, then it does put a resurgence into
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  Speaker 4: people wanting to talk to me and interview me and
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  Speaker 4: and and it helps expand my platform and help mobilize.
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  Speaker 4: I'm really using that word mobilize a lot. But that's
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  Speaker 4: that's what I really feel like. That's the motivating factor
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  Speaker 4: right now.
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  Speaker 2: What's your favorite part of this process?
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  Speaker 3: Do you enjoy the creative part, the performative part, the
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  Speaker 3: marketing part. There's so many different hats you have to
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  Speaker 3: wear when you're out creating and then promoting a project.
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  Speaker 4: I always get stressed out doing press. I think I'm
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  Speaker 4: always like, no, I don't want to do it, And
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  Speaker 4: then when I actually do it, it helps me understand
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  Speaker 4: everything that's going on, and I really I get to
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  Speaker 4: where people are at and it's actually really great, but
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  Speaker 4: I'm so begrudgingly like, But then when I get there,
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  Speaker 4: I'm so excited about it. Yes, and so I do
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  Speaker 4: enjoy that. That is a big learning for me. And
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  Speaker 4: but my love is on the stage. I love the stage.
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  Speaker 4: I'm a show gulf.
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  Speaker 3: Do you feel like when you start a show that
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  Speaker 3: you have to like get the crowd comfortable or get
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  Speaker 3: people to sort of like jump start their fun. Is
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  Speaker 3: that sort of like a pressurized thing for you? Or
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  Speaker 3: how do you sort of like ease them into it
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  Speaker 3: or get them excited?
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  Speaker 4: I feel like they're so damn excited or any Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: so I just can and they're like, which way is
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  Speaker 4: she going to do the show? Is it going to
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  Speaker 4: be through silence? Is going to be a big dance?
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  Speaker 4: Like There's so many ways I have presented shows, and
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  Speaker 4: I feel like they're all effective in different ways. You know.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, as you were coming up and figuring out who
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  Speaker 3: you were going to be on stage, at what point
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  Speaker 3: did you really figure out how to work the crowd?
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  Speaker 2: And when did you feel like, Okay, I have this power?
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  Speaker 4: That is a very good question. I feel like it
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  Speaker 4: evolved when I saw how people were reacting to me
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  Speaker 4: and how I was not interested in just you know,
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  Speaker 4: I wanted to be connected to people. I wanted to
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  Speaker 4: be in their face. I wanted to be a performer.
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  Speaker 4: I wanted to be in the moment. So I would
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  Speaker 4: just keep trying things. Yeah, I would just the more
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  Speaker 4: I would go and then I would go like, oh
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  Speaker 4: now let me try another little costume. Or let me
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  Speaker 4: do a costume change, or people would actually give me
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  Speaker 4: things like costumes and I'd be like, oh, I could
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  Speaker 4: use that, or let me try that out. So it's
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  Speaker 4: also like really came from from people responding to what
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  Speaker 4: I was doing in real time or through through gifts
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  Speaker 4: or being inspired to give me things by what I
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  Speaker 4: was doing.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm also curious about the evolution and how you
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  Speaker 3: came to Peaches. So you started as a bot mitzvah singer,
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  Speaker 3: that was your debut, and then talk a little bit
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  Speaker 3: about the different you know, genres or different type of
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  Speaker 3: styles you tried and how you got to Peaches because
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  Speaker 3: Peaches didn't happen till you were in your thirties.
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  Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, Yeah, So I started as a bar mitzvah singer.
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  Speaker 4: I loved singing. There was no real outlet, you know.
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  Speaker 4: I could play the recorder in music class, but I
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  Speaker 4: never thought it could really be a musician, because I
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  Speaker 4: thought you needed to have like people in your family
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  Speaker 4: playing music, or that you needed training or all these things.
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  Speaker 4: Like I said, we spent a lot of time in
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  Speaker 4: New York. I saw a few Broadway plays. There was
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  Speaker 4: a lot of weird, amazing musicals on late night TV
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  Speaker 4: in Toronto, and I what I came too is that
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: I wanted to be a theater director, so that was
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: more of my focus in theater. But it always centered
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: around music, so I never really realized that it was
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: like music that was driving it. There was something about
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: theaters that didn't have this immediacy that I wanted. But
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: I ended up going to theater directing school for university
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: for first year and then said I wanted to do
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: cool musicals to people, and other directors would scoff at me,
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: they'd laugh at me. They'd say, we are doing ibs
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: in here, we are doing checkof so nobody really took
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: it seriously. I thought it wasn't so serious. I thought
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: it was going to be a really cool way. But
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: I dropped out of the program and I just started
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: to take other arts and understand where I was at.
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: And I needed a job and I worked at a
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: daycare and I was playing acoustic guitar and realized that
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: these kids are very bored and the teachers are bored,
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: and I started to develop sort of theater games and
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: music where these young kids could relate to and role play,
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: but really learn and process and not have to like
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: like stand in front of their parents in it too
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: too and say a line like I'm pretty you know.
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: So it wasn't about the parents. Weren't allowed, they weren't
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: even invited to this conversation. It was just about the kids.
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: And every week they would like develop these things and
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: it was an amazing program. I worked at the YMCA
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: and then head a YMCA recognize what I was doing.
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: I started working around the holes all the YMCAs in
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: Toronto and then private schools because I wasn't a teacher.
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: And while I was learning acoustic guitar, I had an
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: ex girlfriend who also played acoustic guitar, and we were
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: writing songs and we got a gig together at a
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: small pub and it went well, and so we played
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: every week and another friend joint, so we became a
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: trio Mermaide Cafe and we would be singing folks songs,
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: mostly breakup songs, singing harmonies about breaking up with each other,
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: which was funny.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: But were they original songs?
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: All original songs. The name Mermaid Cafe came from Joni
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: Mitchell's song Kerry. That was the only song we covered,
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: I think yeah, And they were all originals. And so
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: I was teaching during the day and you know, learning
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: that I was a musician. At night, we would practice
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: three I wasn't I was one of the writers, but
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: I wasn't like the main, main writer, you know. But
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: we would all write songs and perform them that week.
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: And then after a year of that, I was like,
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: I don't want to I think I want to explore
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: more than being an acoustic musician. And I started playing
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: electric guitar and I had more posts kind of indie rock,
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: trying that out, and it didn't really resonate with people.
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: I mean, I learned lot, and then I had this
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: epiphany jam with a friend who was in another band.
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: She was kind of dissatisfied with that band, and I
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: wanted to start ah girl band. Yeah, that's gonna be
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: the way, and she said, well, I have a crush
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: on this guy. And my neighbor, who also is a musician,
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: has some space in their basement and we could jam there.
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: And so I went begrudgingly again like guys rare, but
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: I didn't say a word to them. I was really like,
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: I brought my electric guitar and I was like, we're
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: gonna jam, and we smoked a big, huge joint and
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: then we started playing and everybody just started yelling anything
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: like sexual and profane things, and it was really exciting.
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: And then someone out people yeah, someone yelled switch and
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: we switched instruments. I had never played drums before, and
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: all of a sudden, I was playing drums, switched again,
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: and I was on like a synthesizer, which I always
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: at that point thought was anna cool because I was like,
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: punk is a synthesize, And then I was like, whoaa, synthesizer.
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: You could play one note and then like filter it
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: and do things, and I was like amazed by it
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: and amazed by the whole experience. And the four of
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: us got together after and we said, we're the shit.
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: This is the shit. So we called ourselves the shit,
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: and we said, let's rename ourselves. And I said, I
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: want to be Peaches because there's a Nina Simone's song
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: Struggle about four women's and there is in no way
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: that I thought the struggle was my struggle. But the
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: way she said at the end of the song about
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: the fourth women, they call me Peaches, it was so
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: passionately said that I was like, I want her to
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: be saying that to me, and there's no way she's
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: going to be saying they call me Meryl. So I
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: changed my name to Peaches, and you know, we would
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: play and we really resonated with people, and we resonated
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: with ourselves. But after a year people moved on. But
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: I really wanted to continue this, and people moved away.
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: So I got a machine. I went into a music
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: shop and I saw this machine on display and it
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: was called the Rolling Groovebox five ah five and you
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: could program things and this is but I didn't have
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: a home computer. Nobody did. This is like nineteen ninety eight.
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: And I was like, oh, this is cool. This could
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: be my drummer, and this could be my bass player,
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: and this could be my synth player and blah blah everything.
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: So I took it home and started to play around
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: with it and use the principles of what we were
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: talking about in the shit, and also think about how
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: I wanted this like rock energy like Stooges energy, punk energy,
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: but craft worky sounds or you know, make this instrument
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: a punk instrument, and also be very direct. And I
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: was questioning about who's allowed to say what sexually. I
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: think we talked about that at the beginning, So I
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: was like, and why is it that, you know, remember
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: it's nineteen ninety eight. Why is rock people? Why do
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: rock people hate dance music? And why do dance people
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: hate rock music? And how can I put them together?
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: And how can I have my take in my perspective
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: without a male case?
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: What was happening in popular music at that time? Like,
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: I feel like that is sort of like.
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: Brittany Britney Spears, was Happenings's child maybe des Child, Yeah,
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: maybe a little yeah, And I.
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: Think like Lilith Fair was sort of like happening. I
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: think that ended in ninety nine. Was any of that?
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: Were you like listening to any of what was happening
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: in in pop mainstream music or were you just in
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: your own kind of like indie punk land in that
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: anything that Were you referencing that at all?
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: No? Not really, No, I wasn't really referencing that. I
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: was referencing more like punk, the the epic noess of rock,
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: but from my machismo, you know, And the I was
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: I was listening to more like Missy Elliott and Little
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: Kim was was a big one for me too. And uh,
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: the miseducation of Lorne Hill and you know, and in
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: the mid nineties, I was I was like moving away
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: from you know, all my older influences to like, you know,
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: Sonic Youth and all these like indie post punk indie bands.
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: Cool.
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: So were you actively trying to be different from things
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: or was that not even a factor?
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: I was just trying to like put it all together.
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: I didn't have, you know, Also, this machine, I didn't
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: really know a lot about it. You know, my first
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: beats were all one twenty bpm because I didn't know
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: how to change the bpm. You know, things like that.
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: There's no like YouTube tutorials back then, like you like
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: literally about two thousand and six, right, you had to
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: learn it on your own, Yeah.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: Which is super cool.
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: Didn't you teach Mia how to use a drum machine?
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: Well? One of my first tours was opening for Alastica.
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: Do you remember that was also big? Alaska was big,
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: and PJ. Harvey was big for me too, in like
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: ninety five. Yeah, and Justine had heard a single of mine,
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: Lover Tits and asked me to come on tour, and
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: may m Ia was more interested in being like a
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: documentary and art filmmaker and she was doing a documentary
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: on her father as a Tamil Tiger and also very
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: good friends with Justine and documenting the last tour of
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: Elastica together. And we met there and she was fascinated
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: because she came from a huge hip hop culture and
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: loved music but never thought about making music and then
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: saw the machine and thought, wow, what is that? And
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: I was like, it's easy, you should do it. And
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: her and Justine, I think they worked together and she
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: got one and yeah, really served it. Oh, really served
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: her well.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: Nas Break will be back with Leah Rose and Peaches.
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: I wish that more people had the opportunity or I
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: had that approach like, oh it's easy, you can do it,
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: cause it does seem so intimidating.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: Well, I mean it can be difficult and it can
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: be complicated, but you have to find the way that
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: it works for you.
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: I want to ask you about Fatherfucker. So Fatherfucker turned
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: twenty two last year. First of all, do you ever
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: listen back to albums in full?
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: Not so often, but I did listen back to you
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: know sometimes like when we when you finish the album,
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: then you're like, how does it how does it sound
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: like with the other albums are But yeah, there are
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: certain songs in Fatherfuckers that I think I overlooked that
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: I really like. Oh like what the Inch I think
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: is a really cool song. I always love Tombstone. I
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: think it's really really cool. Then there's all the like
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: you know, the more known ones to me anyway, like
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: kick It or Operates?
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, which one of your albums is your favorite?
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: They're all my babies. But I do I feel like
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: Fatherfucker has a has a very strong place in my
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: heart because you know, Teachers and Peaches was so well
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: received and so powerful for in music circles, but Fatherfucker
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: was They were like, this is a failure. What is
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: Peach is doing? But in terms of like community and
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: cultural cultural relevance and understanding queerness more going really hardcore
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: into the queer aspect of my work, it's such a win.
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: And so many people from those communities tell me what
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: Fatherfucker meant to them. Yeah, so I'm really proud of that.
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: Do the things that people say to you when someone
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: comes up to you and tells you how meaningful your
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: work is to them, does that change at all the
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: way that you approach other artists. Like, let's say you
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: met Anne Wilson from Heart and you wanted to tell
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: you wanted to just gush about one of her songs.
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: But having the experience of having so many people tell
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: you, you know, like how impactful your work is to them, Like,
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: does that change how you talk to others?
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: Just become a blubbering fan. There's nothing you can do
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: about it. You're just like yeah, and you're like, but
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: you don't understand. I mean, I see I'm teaching. Maybe
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: you don't know who I am. It doesn't matter. You're
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: just a blubbering fan and you love them and hopefully
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: they will take mercy on you.
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: Have you had any what felt like awkward experiences with
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: people that you've met where you just turned into a
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: blubbering fan.
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but I've also had awkward experiences where just they're
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: just like, okay, whatever.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, who just working.
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: I know you've worked with Iggy Pop and he was
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: a big influence early on.
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: How is that experience?
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: It was amazing because he's so spontaneous. He was also
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: like when we were in the studio, He's like, if
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: I don't get it, I'm not gonna do it. Okay,
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: So let's just try it. You know, he's just he
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: wants to give, he wants to share with, you know,
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: generations that also relate and love what he does. But
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: he's also going to be real. If it doesn't work,
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: it doesn't work, but I'm glad it worked.
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: So if he didn't get the track, if he didn't
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: get the.
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: Or didn't feel the tribe, yeah.
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, ooh, that's kind of like feels pressurized. Oh I
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: hope he likes it.
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but also he's being real and I appreciate you.
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, totally.
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: So okay, So once you had Peaches established and you
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: were on that journey, looking back, like, how has Peaches
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: evolved and what do you like with the new album?
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: Are you filling in holes? Are you?
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: I'm a woman in control of all my holes? That's
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: one of the other lines I love on this album.
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: So I am filling in those holes. The holes are filled,
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: the holes are filed. I guess the evolution is just
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: to like bring Peaches, which is not difficult into twenty
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: twenty six. Part of the conversation that started back in
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: two thousand and continued on with the last album being
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: two thousand and fifteen and not just bringing it into now.
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: And I really feel like it has that feeling. And
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: I think the production is incredible.
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: And the production is incredible.
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think that it's really good. Yeah, So
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: I'm I'm super happy. I had a spirit helped me
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: produce this album named Scort Deluxe.
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: I had.
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: And Yang, this amazing mixer in Berlin. She did all
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: the mixing used had amazing choices also, and have a
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: country you know as a master who is the master
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: of the masters. So it was a great team.
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: How do you get into the mood to record since
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: you're making sort of like sometimes atbeat or more maybe
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: party music, Like can you just roll into the studio
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: at any time of day and get into that headspace
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: or do you have to do like do you have
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: to have a drink?
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: Do you have to smoke?
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: Like?
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: How do you get into that space?
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: There's no there's no rhyme or reason. You just have
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: to get into it. You just have to get in.
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: I used to smug a lot of weed in there,
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: and now I don't know, I just kind of it
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: wasn't easy. There was a you know, that's a you know,
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: also when you have so much material and some and
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: you want to make it fresh, but you also are
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: really uh, you know, your concerns are still a concern.
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: You know, it's not it's not easy, so just keep trying.
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I'm very fortunate that
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: me and my partner we built a studio. Well they
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: built the studio, but we have a studio in our basement.
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: So and it's soundproof.
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: Wuief.
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so now it's sound proof and ready to go.
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: Nice.
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: I saw that in the Teachers of Peaches documentary You
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: in the space?
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: Did you end up building this studio in that same space?
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: Wow? Yeah, that's super cool.
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: So okay, so you don't you don't have to be
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: in a specific mode to record it, just sort of
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: when it happens, it happens.
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: I'm also not super spontaneous. I know it sounds like
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: party music, but there's a lot of thought and agony
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: that comes into it.
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah, are there any specific sessions you remember
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: where maybe something interesting happened, Maybe this song wasn't sort
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: of working and then one thing changed and all of
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: a sudden something clicked.
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, anything you remember.
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: I just know that not in your mouth none of
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: your business, which if you've seen the documentary, comes from
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: my partner's line about not in your mouth, none of
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: your business. Just that I was that just came spontaneously,
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: like that just rolled right out of my mouth because
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: it was just like I need to say this now.
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: So that was cool because we didn't even know we
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: would have that song.
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: Very cool. What is your favorite track on the album?
• 37:26
  Speaker 4: If you have one, They're all my babies, They're all
• 37:29
  Speaker 4: my babies. I mean I I I guess right now
• 37:34
  Speaker 4: it is Hanging Titties because it's its high energy. Yeah,
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: do you have a favorite track.
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: Or I like hanging Titties and I like.
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: Fuck, how you want to fuck a lot?
• 37:46
  Speaker 4: Great? I love that song too.
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: I love that And then I love the last song
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: on the album.
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: Be Love Beautiful.
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, tell me about that one. How did that
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: come about?
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: Be Love is just like like we were talking about
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: how an album has an arc, and be Love is like, hey,
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: in the end, we really just have to be love
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: and we have to come from a place of love.
• 38:06
  Speaker 4: And that is really the song that most reck with
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: myself because there's a lot of like discon you know,
• 38:13
  Speaker 4: talking about my being disconnected or feeling anxiety and things
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: like that, but also like just have to push through
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: for love, not be loved, but give love.
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, what do you do to sort of make yourself
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: feel better? Like what are your little self care things
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: or what do you do to sort of comfort yourself
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: when you're not feeling good.
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: That's something I still have to work on. I feel
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: like I have a hard time letting go, you know,
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: of those feelings. So I have to learn to like
• 38:49
  Speaker 4: sit with them and really just feel what they are.
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: But I don't have a go to thing. Do you.
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: Probably getting like super cozy in bed with tons of blankets.
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: Oh that's Cute's that's nice.
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I love being cozy. That's a big thing for me.
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: And then being outside going on walks. It's so great
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  Speaker 3: for that breathing air, sunshine, weating.
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  Speaker 2: Weating, I like weading.
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  Speaker 4: I do a different weating, but yes, but I also
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: like singing for me if I just like sing out?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, what kind of songs do you like to sing?
• 39:29
  Speaker 4: Oh? Power ballads? Eighty power ballads? Yeah, like some old
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: heart Oh my god? Yes, what don't they want someone?
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: A terrible Yeah, that's amazing, She's so amazing, So amazing.
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: I want to see that documentary about Anne Wilson.
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: Yes, they're so great.
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: No, they have a they have an audio book that's
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: really interesting.
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: They have a great story.
• 39:58
  Speaker 4: Oh I know they probably have like wild music music
• 40:05
  Speaker 4: industry stories.
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  Speaker 2: Too, totally.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: In their early careers started in Canada.
• 40:10
  Speaker 4: It did Mushroom Records on the West coast because they
• 40:14
  Speaker 4: are the seventies and I know weird trivia about those.
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: We need to start a weird trivia show. We're trivia
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  Speaker 2: with Peaches. Let's go. I would listen to that.
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: It's not really very weird, right, Well.
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: You got to get the people to listen, so say weird. Okay, weird?
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: Weird is it?
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: I'll bring them in Okay, okay, So I will let
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  Speaker 2: you go soon.
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  Speaker 3: Is there anything about the album that you want to
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: talk about, like anything that I didn't specifically ask you about,
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: or anything you want to say about the album?
• 40:46
  Speaker 4: So I was writing it was literally writing down what
• 40:48
  Speaker 4: about love? Because I'm constructing.
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  Speaker 3: My karaoke list constantly that that's a hard song to sing.
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  Speaker 4: Oh No, I wouldn't never, I've got it, I got
• 40:59
  Speaker 4: you done that. I don't want to blow at your
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  Speaker 4: mic right now?
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  Speaker 3: What are your favorite power ballads? Like, what comes to
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  Speaker 3: mind when you think power ballads?
• 41:09
  Speaker 4: Well, now that one for sure. It's I Love more
• 41:15
  Speaker 4: T It's U Laura Brannigan. She also did Oh that Night,
• 41:22
  Speaker 4: It is My World. I love I love singing her
• 41:25
  Speaker 4: any Pat Benatar song is amazing. My go to is
• 41:32
  Speaker 4: Weathering Heights Kate Bush Nice I love. There's so many.
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  Speaker 4: I just love awesome. Yeah, they're really for the teachers
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: of Peach's anniversary. Dour I did a twenty minute or
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: twelve to twenty minute version of It's All Coming Back
• 41:52
  Speaker 4: to Me Celine Dion with starts and stops and new
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  Speaker 4: lyrics and things like that. So that was also hard
• 41:59
  Speaker 4: to say. That was very voice expanding. Also, Private Dancer
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  Speaker 4: is a big one for me.
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  Speaker 2: Oh so good. Yeah, I love that video.
• 42:10
  Speaker 4: Private Dancer written by Mark Knopfler from from What's the
• 42:14
  Speaker 4: name of it now? I don't remember the name Brothers
• 42:16
  Speaker 4: in Arms. Someone out there was saying the name of
• 42:18
  Speaker 4: the band is uh, you know? They also did they
• 42:22
  Speaker 4: did the MTV theme, did they we Got the stormuck?
• 42:27
  Speaker 4: Whatever of you know?
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: That's oh Dire Straight Dire Straights.
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  Speaker 4: Oh my god, I had it like a brain freeze.
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: That song was the ship. That video was on MTV
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  Speaker 2: all the time.
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: Well because it wasn't I want min Yeah. So the
• 42:40
  Speaker 4: singer from that band and the writer Mark Knopfler wrote
• 42:44
  Speaker 4: Private Dancer, Wow, which is strange.
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: Look at him. Yeah, that is weird.
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: So is there anything else about the album that you
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: want to touch on or talk about about the creation
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: of the album or.
• 42:59
  Speaker 4: I'm just super excited about it and I love it
• 43:01
  Speaker 4: and I'm glad you mentioned the song fuck How You
• 43:04
  Speaker 4: Wanna Fuck? I think it has some really good stings
• 43:10
  Speaker 4: and powerful messages in there, and i just want to
• 43:17
  Speaker 4: get it out there, and I'm excited for the tour.
• 43:18
  Speaker 4: It starts February twentieth in the States, and uh yeah,
• 43:24
  Speaker 4: it's gonna be great.
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: Okay, this is last question.
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: If you were to put together like an essential Peaches playlist,
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: what would be on it?
• 43:33
  Speaker 4: Oh? I mean I would I mean I would put
• 43:43
  Speaker 4: on of course, you put on fuck the Paint Away,
• 43:45
  Speaker 4: you'd put it boys want to be Here? You put
• 43:46
  Speaker 4: on to Operate. I would put on Tombstone or put
• 43:50
  Speaker 4: shake your dicks dick in the air, rub is big
• 43:54
  Speaker 4: for me. I'd also put on Free drink ticket. Uh what,
• 44:01
  Speaker 4: there's like, so many songs to put on it.
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: This is hard hanging titties.
• 44:07
  Speaker 4: Hanging titties. I wasn't even give no lub so rude.
• 44:11
  Speaker 4: Fuck how you want to fuck? I'm gonna just start
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  Speaker 4: naming every single song I wrote. So I don't really
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  Speaker 4: know what to do about this.
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  Speaker 2: That works.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you Peaches so much for thank you talking. Thanks listen, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: have fun on tour.
• 44:24
  Speaker 4: Thank you, Thanks yay by.
• 44:29
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