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Angry, wet and sexy, Peaches returns to an Orlando stage to feel up the crowd (and herself).<\/p>\n
After a decade of touring with dance troupes and focusing on the visual and performance arts, Canadian electroclash artist Peaches, born Merrill Nisker, is kicking off a world tour in Florida with the release of her new album, No Lube So Rude.<\/p>\n
Nisker established herself as a queer, sexually transgressive artist in 2000 in a big way with her salaciously classic debut, The Teaches of Peaches. Her music, seductive and filthy, pushed the boundaries of the norm upon its initial release.<\/p>\n
No Lube So Rude, Peaches\u2019 first new album in 10 years, encapsulates all the things fans expect of the post-menopausal queer icon: bodily autonomy, explicit sexuality and naked desire. The first track of the album, \u201cHanging Titties,\u201d opens the album with a message loud and clear to listeners: that joy, confidence and feeling sexy do not go away with age.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou hear all these songs about, like, \u2018My titties are cute and they\u2019re perky and everything,\u2019 and I\u2019m like, \u2018Mine hang and you love that.\u2019 Gravity\u2019s caught up with me and let\u2019s go. And \u2018Older than you and looking so cunt,\u2019 just like \u2014 owning it,\u201d Nisker tells Orlando Weekly.<\/p>\n
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Peaches\u2019 album art has always featured parts of her body. The cover for No Lube So Rude pays homage to her first album cover \u2026 but more lubey.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI liked all the veininess and the grit of it,\u201d says Nisker. The artist-exclusive pressing of the album on vinyl even comes in a veiny print.<\/p>\n
The album challenges social taboos around aging and the female body, embracing it while also jabbing at the greater politics that support the negativity that surrounds it. The song \u201cPanna Cotta Delight\u201d celebrates sexuality beyond the years that popular norms define as \u201csexy.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI want them to know that it\u2019s not just about now, that it\u2019s going to continue on, and you have to feel good about aging. It\u2019s not like your life is over; you can live it the way you need to,\u201d Nisker says.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The vulgarity of a Peaches album has yet to lessen, despite the intervening decade. Her songs do not shy away from the politics that have come to threaten the very things Peaches has been vouching for throughout her creative career. Her new album\u2019s sixth track, the song \u201cFuck How You Wanna Fuck,\u201d directly calls out Brett Kavanaugh and his key role in overturning Roe v. Wade in the first two verses.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Nisker reveals that she\u2019s frequently asked if her music is political, in part because of her work\u2019s championing of personal agency. Songs from No Lube So Rude, like \u201cNot In Your Mouth None of Your Business,\u201d are anthems of unapologetic joy and self-empowerment. Nisker believes that expression of the body is made out to be political by others because of a patriarchal upbringing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI get asked a lot, \u2018Do you feel like your music is political?\u2019 And I think I\u2019m just reacting to the way the political climate has made me because I want equal pay for everybody,\u201d says Nisker. \u201cI want people to all have their human rights. I want everybody to be able to have affordable healthcare. I don\u2019t think that\u2019s political. I think that\u2019s a human right. That\u2019s just humanity.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
While loudly calling out the state of global justice, Nisker\u2019s album is an optimistic collection of upbeat, vibrant anthems that are defiant against forces of hatred and oppression. She explains that energy is essential in fighting against the structures pushing people down.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI want people to be aware and be in touch with everything that\u2019s going on and I understand that people are angry, but I want to bring joy to it and understanding in a way that we can go through this and still have a smile, not to like negate anything that [anybody\u2019s] going through, but just to give us a little bit of grace while we\u2019re doing this,\u201d she says.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The album is dirty, gritty and unapologetically sexual, embracing identity, pleasure and an overall feeling of freedom. Peaches wants you to be your best and most authentic, unapologetic self.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously, there is trepidation around everything that\u2019s going on, but I don\u2019t want it to stop people from being who they need to be, and to live their lives, live their best lives,\u201d Nisker says.<\/p>\n
Tour preparations have been in the works for \u201cforever.\u201d The artistry of Peaches lies not only in her licentious lyricism and electric sound, but also in her visuals and performance concepts. Her team began with the costuming for the tour, going to an opera clearance sale and purchasing secondhand costumes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cOpera picks incredible fabrics, and they make them so that they\u2019re easy to get on and off, because of like, quick changes and things like that,\u201d Nisker says. \u201cSo then I had Charlie Le Mindu, who does my hair and also is my costume director, he brought two other people with him, and fucked all those costumes up to make them something different. \u2026 We were being very sustainable and also just using the tools that were already there.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nisker isn\u2019t touring with a band, but she\u2019s hauling analog gear to mix sound and dancers to enhance the sweat-soaked vibes. She\u2019s aiming to make a vibrant, memorable experience for her multigenerational fan base.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI want you to enjoy your bodily autonomy. I want you to feel creative. I want you to feel alive. I want you to feel joy and anger. I want you to be inspired. You don\u2019t have to be who I am or do what I do, but I hope that it helps to make you feel something,\u201d says Nisker. \u201cI want you to also have this experience of these live shows, which are so important to me, because I want people to have this experience of being together. I think people my age really have this experience of being in rooms together and have this tradition of \u2014 if I can use the word tradition \u2014 of being together and experiencing creativity in real time. And I want this intergenerational opportunity between Gen Z to, like, Gen X. Maybe there are some Baby Boomers.\u201d<\/p>\n
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In her shows, in her music and in her art, Nisker is hoping to spark joy and urges her fans to embrace that feeling. The energy and vibrance of her art and what she hopes to see in her fans, young and old, is what she wants to also see reflected in their cries for action and change in global politics.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s no revolution if there\u2019s no joy. You need to bring the joy, or else, if you\u2019re just bringing the anger, that\u2019s what they want. They want us just to be angry, they want us to feel defeated,\u201d Nisker says, concluding her teaches. \u201cYes, bring the anger, because that\u2019s the energy, but you also have to feel good.\u201d<\/p>\n
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