Peaches says lube is the 'magical tool' the world needs
CBC News (A)By Vivian Rashotte
2026-20-02 05:20 EST Last Updated: 2026-20-02
Peaches is one of Canada's boldest musicians and performance artists. (@officialpeaches/Facebook)
There’s a scene in the 2024 documentary Peaches Goes Bananas that shows Canadian electro-punk icon Peaches crowd surfing standing up. A mosh pit of fans holds her up by the ankles while she sings and gestures toward a sex doll just a few feet away. It’s classic Peaches: raunchy, communal and joyfully rebellious.
For more than 25 years, Peaches has been rewriting the rules for what a socially aware artist can be. On No Lube So Rude — her first new album in more than 10 years — she uses her signature brand of provocative lyrics and clever wordplay to take aim at everything from the reversal of Roe v. Wade to Elon Musk’s Starlink. It proves that, at 59, Peaches hasn’t softened with time — if anything, she’s sharpened.
In an interview with Q guest host Talia Schlanger, the musician says No Lube So Rude carries a deeper meaning beyond its obvious sexual connotation.
WATCH | Full interview with Peaches:
“The world is in a very friction state — it's very dry, and people are not understanding each other, or wanting to understand each other,” she explains. “When that happens in a sexual experience, or when you're feeling dry, you have this magical tool called lube that can get you through … and I wish we had that magic tool in our world.”
With tracks like Hanging Titties and F–k How You Want to F–k, Peaches's songs and lyrics have been called shocking, but she argues that reality is “way more shocking” than anything she could write.
“That you have [Brett] Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court, that you have Clarence Thomas still on the Supreme Court, that you don't have a Supreme Court that is actually fair and just … that Mifepristone, which is the abortion pill that you take, is being banned in the States, that health-care is threatened — all these things are shocking,” she says. “I'm reacting, I'm not making this stuff up.”
As a staunch advocate for bodily autonomy, Peaches says she’s proud of her lyrics and the emotional intent behind every single word. The album is about defending human rights, making people feel good about themselves, and celebrating what it means to grow older.
WATCH | Official video for No Lube So Rude:
On the album’s fifth track, Panna Cotta Delight, she she uses playful, unexpected rhymes to shatter taboos around aging and desire: “Building on my tension / Suspension / Bouncing on my tires / Of dissension / Pay attention / Your intention / I don't need insurance / I've got pension / Yes I'm old / Solid gold / A woman in control of all her holes / And my roles / I fill my goals / Never come in second / Check the poles.”
“It touches on aging, and it touches on desire, and it touches on your right to have pension or insurance,” she says with a laugh. “And when you think about it, people talk about insurance, but then when you're older, it's very important to think about pension also and it shouldn't be shameful or strange.”
Watch or listen to the full interview with Peaches to hear more about how aging has transformed her as an artist, why she identifies as both a performance artist and a musician, and how she honed her punk chops singing for kids. If you can’t get enough of Peaches, she’s also the subject of two recent documentaries: The Teaches of Peaches and Peaches Goes Bananas.
The full interview with Peaches is available on our YouTube channel and on our podcast, Q with Tom Power. Listen and follow wherever you get your podcasts.
I kid you not, this is a real biological woman.
