If Peaches is calling her new video her “most insane ever”, then I suppose you’ve got to believe her. The electro-pop pioneer has dropped the accompaniment to her new single “Rub” and she definitely wasn’t kidding about it being wild.
It starts with a strange sweaty man kidnapping Peaches and dumping her in his van. He drives off and takes her to a red-lit warehouse where a huge orgy is taking place; there’s a colourful mass of bodies of every shape and size imaginable, hairy and shaved, writhing about. Items are casually pulled from vaginas with hands or teeth – long fluffy things that look like pipecleaners, microphones – and dicks swung ceremoniously in faces.
On her official site, Peaches described the video: “The story of a young woman who, inspired by a 65-year-old stripper, begins to make sexually forthright music. Her popularity grows and she becomes what her fans expect her to be: transsexual. She falls in love with a beautiful she-male, but gets her heart broken and then ventures on a path of self-discovery.”
Lyrically, it’s classic old school Peaches (“Tell on my pussy, whistleblow my clit”), and the album, also titled Rub, sounds just as brilliantly explicit. Tracks include “Vaginoplasty” and “Dick In The Air” and feature guest vocals from Kim Gordon. Congrats bb, you’ve managed to make “Fuck the Pain Away” look as PG as humanly possible.
