Aliza Shapiro: Do you think you get more questions about that [her music being about nothing but sex] because you’re female and this isn’t what you're supposed to be doing?
Peaches: Yeah! Do you think someone would ask Ludacris why he sings so many songs about sex? No! Would you ever ask a rapper that? No! “Hey man, it’s ’cause I’m a motherfuckin’ gangsta!” That’s what I’m gonna tell people from now on. “I write about sex cause I’m a motherfuckin’ gangsta!” Like, leave me alone. What is your repression? What's your problem?
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Peaches: So, yeah, people say, “Oh my god, you’re so ’80s! I love your retro ’80s thing!” And you know why? ’Cause in the ’80s, gay ruled. People could actually fucking do what they wanted. Look at pop culture in the ’80s — it’s pretty fucking amazing.
Aliza Shapiro: But, like, drag kings and people doing masculine drag in the ’80s? Not so much.
Peaches: But they think anything gay, any queer positive thing. Look at how men were in the ’80s — it was almost like that was the standard, you had to have the Flock of Seagulls hair-do. And so now everything’s gay. “That’s so gay.” The way we use the word, its crazy.
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