You're listening to Song Exploder,
where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece tell the story of how they were made.
I'm Rishikesh Hirway.
Peaches is a musician, producer, and performance artist.
She's released six albums, and in 2015, she won the Polaris Heritage Music Prize.
Her fourth album came out in 2006, and it features the song, Boys Wanna Be Her.
She produced the song with Mickey Petraglia, whose other production credits include Beck,
Lady Tron, and Flight of the Conchords.
Boys Want to Be Here has become kind of an anthem since it came out.
It's been used a lot in film and TV.
To name just a couple of examples, it was in the season two finale of The Boys,
and it's the theme song for Full Frontal with Samantha Bee.
In this episode, Peaches tells the story of what inspired the song originally,
and how she made it, with a few thoughts from Mickey Petraglia.
My name is Peaches.
I think I've always been very fascinated by male-driven rock music
because that's what the go-to pop music was when I was growing up.
So I think in the back of my head I was like, I want to be that, but I don't want to be that.
I want to have that feeling and I want to be able to express myself in a fun and flirty and sexual way.
And I was listening to ACDC.