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 Herway.

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 Want to Be Her.

She produced the song with Mickey Petralia, whose other production credits include Back, Lady Tron, and Flight of the Concords.

Boys Want to Be Her has become kind of an anthem since it came out, has been used a lot in film and TV.

Today I'm just a couple of examples.

It was in the season two finale of The Boys, and it's the theme song for a full frontal with Samantha B.

In this episode, Peaches tells the story of what inspired the song originally, and how she made it,

with a few thoughts from Mickey Petralia.

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.

And I was focusing on a particular song called TNT.

I really love their approach musically, with those riffs and very straightforward drums.

They actually are like a very minimal electronic band.

I was listening to that song a lot, and it was the song about the hero coming to town,

and that lock up your daughters, lock up your wives, the boy is back in town.

And then I started thinking of all the other rock songs that say that, the boys are back in town, whatever.

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