![]() Gladys Knight and the Pips use it to represent good times on “Part Time Love” in 1975, singing, “I know we’re gonna find our share of peaches and cream, and when the juice is low, I don’t want no excuses” - again, get your mind out of the gutter. In fact, there are plenty of innocent peach references in song: Particularly in older tracks, “peaches and cream” is often used to mean everything’s fine and dandy, or “just peachy.” Dean Martin’s 1965 song “Little Lovely One” utilizes the phrase to chastely tell the object of his affection how dreamy she is (“you’re such a living dream, like peaches and cream”), while Frank Sinatra’s 1946 version of “Soliloquy” uses it to imagine his future daughter (“my little girl, pink and white as peaches and cream is she”). “Moving to the country, gonna eat a lot of peaches” is innocuous enough, but something about seeing a bunch of children dancing to lines like “sun-soakin’ bulges in the shade” or “I poked my finger down inside, made a little room for an ant to hide” sent him over the edge. Perhaps the most obvious example is “Peaches” by ’90s alt-rock group the Presidents of the United States of America (who are celebrating the 25th anniversary of their debut album with a successful Kickstarter campaign to reissue it on vinyl.) I have a vivid memory from my teenaged camp counselor days of the panicked, horrified look on our camp director’s face as he ran over to chastise one of my coworkers for letting the kids choreograph a dance to the song. And while peach-related horniness has been amplified in song in recent years due to the emoji’s popularity, the stone fruit was already a musician favorite decades before smart phones even existed. ![]() We don’t have to go into the specifics of why the peach is favored over other fruits when it comes to sexy lyricism (you can use your imagination, but let’s just say it’s one of the only fruits pulling double duty when it comes to resembling certain body parts). ![]() Of course, other types of produce have been used as scandalous stand-ins for by musicians, whether it’s Warrant’s “ Cherry Pie” or Led Zeppelin’s “ Lemon Song.” But no fruit metaphor gets as much airplay as the peach. Thanks to its resemblance to a butt, the peach emoji is a sexting staple, leaving little to the imagination and inspiring countless artists to make reference to the fuzzy fruit when they’re looking for a not-so-subtle innuendo.
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