Peaches (artist)

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Image:Ffpeaches.jpg Merrill Nisker (born 1968 in Toronto), better known as Peaches, is a female 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 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? ...[W]e 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 refutes 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 sanitised 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.

1 Folklore
2 Discography
- 2.1 Albums
- 2.2 Singles/EPs
3 External links

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On Air America Radio's Majority Report, Sam Seder and his co-host Janeane Garofalo have a trademark signoff "Peaches". When their show ends, one of them ends the show by saying "peaches". This is in reference to a lengthy interview that Sam and Janeane did with Peaches, when The Majority Report began to air in 2004. By most accounts, it was a tedious, boring, wretched interview in which Peaches was horrible. It was a taped interview, and before it finished, Sam and Janeane stopped playing the interview, because bloggers were posting very strong messages expressing their discomfort at it.

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