Operate

2003 single by Peaches

"Operate"

Single by Peaches
from the album  Fatherfucker
Released| September 8, 2003
Genre|

* Electroclash
* dance-punk

Label| XL Recordings
Songwriter(s)|

* Peaches
* Sticky Henderson[1]

Producer(s)| Peaches
Peaches singles chronology
| "Grab My Shaft"
(2003)  | "Operate"
(2003)  | "We Don't Play Guitars"
(2003)

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"Operate" is a song written and recorded by Peaches and Sticky Henderson. The song was released as a double limited vinyl A-side with "Shake Yer Dix" to promote the release of her second studio album Fatherfucker.

## Track listing

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* UK CD single[2]

1. "Operate" – 3:28
2. "Shake Yer Dix" – 3:32

## Song usage

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"Operate" has been used in movies Mean Girls and Waiting.... The song was also used in the American television series Las Vegas (episode title: New Orleans).[3]

In 2017, following the release of Taylor Swift's "Look What You Made Me Do", some commentators suggested that the song sampled "Operate".[4][5] Some speculated that the alleged sample was a reference to a Katy Perry tweet warning people to "watch out for the Regina George in sheep's clothing"; George appeared in the Mean Girls scene which featured the Peaches song.[6] For a time, music annotation website Genius listed "Operate" as being sampled in the Swift single.[4]

Writing for the Alternative Press, Maggie Dickman argued that Swift's song "clearly sounds like" the Peaches song, and also remarked that Swift's music video was similar to Peaches'.[4] In an article for W, Kyle Munzenrieder argued that the beat in Swift's song sounded similar but not the same, since it was "cleaner and more toned down".[6] In her liner notes, Swift credited a sample of the Right Said Fred song "I'm Too Sexy", but did not list the Peaches song as a sample.[5]

## Charts

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Chart (2003)  | Peak
position

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UK Singles Chart[7] | 112

## References

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1. ^ Henderson releases long-awaited solo CD Orangeville.com. Retrieved 2022-08-03.
2. ^ Peaches - Operate Discogs. Retrieved 2010-06-10.
3. ^ Peaches - Filmography IMDb. Retrieved 2010-06-10.
4. ^ a b c Dickman, Maggie (August 25, 2017). "Taylor Swift's new song "LWYMMD" clearly samples Peaches' "Operate"". Alternative Press. Retrieved February 17, 2022.
5. ^ a b Vain, Madison (August 25, 2017). "The internet thinks Taylor Swift secretly sampled Peaches' Mean Girls song". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved February 17, 2022.
6. ^ a b Munzenrieder, Kyle (September 6, 2017). "Taylor Swift's New Songs Keep Getting Compared to Old Hipster Hits". W. Retrieved February 17, 2022.
7. ^ "Chart Log UK : Rodney P. - Pussycat Dolls". Zobbel. Retrieved 2010-04-30.

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Peaches

* Discography

Studio albums|

* The Teaches of Peaches
* Fatherfucker
* Impeach My Bush
* I Feel Cream
* Rub

Other albums|

* The Flaming Lips and Stardeath and White Dwarfs with Henry Rollins and Peaches Doing The Dark Side of the Moon

Singles|

* "Lovertits"
* "Set It Off"
* "Rock Show"
* "Operate"
* "Kick It"
* "Shake Yer Dix"
* "Downtown"
* "Boys Wanna Be Her"
* "Talk to Me / More"
* "Lose You"
* "I Feel Cream"

Featured singles|

* "Grab My Shaft"
* "We Don't Play Guitars"

Other songs|

* "Fuck the Pain Away"

Related|

* Teaches of Peaches (2024 film)
* Peaches Goes Bananas (2024 film)

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