{"id":1145,"date":"2016-10-07T05:27:03","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T12:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/?p=1145"},"modified":"2016-10-07T05:29:10","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T12:29:10","slug":"peaches-strikes-at-gender-norms-ageism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/07\/peaches-strikes-at-gender-norms-ageism\/","title":{"rendered":"Peaches Strikes At Gender Norms &#038; Ageism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/peaches.kungfustore.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Peaches<\/a> has been making music for over two decades and over that time has not reached the popularity that she is enjoying today. With her 2015 &#8220;Rub&#8221; album she is receiving the recognition long deserved as she puts herself front and center in the current Culture Wars.  &#8220;I Mean Something&#8221; strikes at ageism and &#8220;Rub&#8221; obliterates any body and gender norms.  Peaches work is as timely as ever; perhaps popular culture has finally begun to catch up with her.  As <a href=\"http:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/20950-rub\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cameron Cook of Pitchfork<\/a> puts it &#8220;Peaches may be the only female pop musician working today who sings about sex while firmly and intentionally diverting the objectifying male gaze.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In Peaches music videos women are the heroes and they are sexualized, but not as figures servicing men, instead they enjoy one another and reflect self-empowerment.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YGqPsqDWS00\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nPeaches &#8211; I Mean Something (featuring Feist)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/147527929\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/147527929\">Peaches &#8211; Rub (Uncensored)<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/peachesrocks\">Peaches<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also pretty great how Peaches has chosen to work with past punk icons Iggy Pop and more recently Kim Gordon.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-rnJAe3zuzQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MTjxT7CWFPU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peaches has been making music for over two decades and over that time has not reached the popularity that she is enjoying today. With her 2015 &#8220;Rub&#8221; album she is receiving the recognition long deserved as she puts herself front and center in the current Culture Wars. &#8220;I Mean Something&#8221; strikes at ageism and &#8220;Rub&#8221; [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[753,271,518,116,619],"tags":[929,931,930,927,928],"class_list":["post-1145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contemporary-art","category-entertainment","category-music","category-politics","category-protest-2","tag-i-mean-something","tag-iggy-pop","tag-kim-gordon","tag-peaches","tag-rub"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1145"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1148,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions\/1148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}