Peaches Lets the Monsters Out — Then Makes Peace With Them
One of thee hardest creative creatures in music, Peaches, has linked with NOWNESS for an art-film treatment of “You’re Alright” — one of the standout cuts from her latest album, No Lube So Rude.
Directed by Agniia Galdanova, the Oscar-shortlisted filmmaker behind the 2023 documentary Queendom, the video sends Peaches into the streets of Paris surrounded by towering creature-drag figures that feel like physical manifestations of fear, judgment and the parts of ourselves we would rather keep hidden.
The visual continues ideas Galdanova explored in Queendom, but in a more frenetic, fantastical form. Instead of explaining fear from a distance, the film gives it a body — huge, strange and impossible to ignore.
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Jenna Marvin, the performance artist at the center of Queendom, returns here through the film’s creature design and performance language. She appears alongside Art, Miss Tizzy, Ricardo Huber Gomez, Kian Boonabi-Mirfathali and Antonean Diaz, expanding the visual into a moving parade of bodies that refuse to shrink themselves for anybody else’s comfort.
And visually, the whole thing is impeccably done. The creatures look like nightlife club kids from Uranus — towering, glamorous, bizarre and somehow completely at home in Peaches’ universe. Jenna also serves as costume designer, while Quamaz and Baiir handle makeup, helping push the creatures beyond simple spectacle into something tactile, theatrical and fully lived-in. Behind the camera, Alexander Khudokon and Ruslan Fedotov serve as directors of photography, with Vlad Fishez editing and Fedotov also handling the color grade.
Galdanova describes the project as another piece of the same creative puzzle as Queendom, even though the tone and form are different. The through line is freedom of expression — especially at a moment when visibility, gender expression and women’s rights continue to face political pressure.
That makes “You’re Alright” feel less like a conventional music video and more like Peaches translating one of the album’s central ideas into motion: the world may project fear onto you, but you still get to decide what parts of yourself deserve love instead of exile.
The song comes from No Lube So Rude, Peaches’ first studio album in more than a decade. Released February 20 through Kill Rock Stars, the 11-track record pulls electronic, dance, punk, industrial and pop into a deliberately abrasive, bodily and political mix.
“You’re Alright” lands near the end of that record, but its message feels like one of the album’s clearest statements: acceptance does not require sanding yourself down first.
Watch Peaches’ “You’re Alright” Art Film Directed by Agniia Galdanova
The NOWNESS film, Music icon Peaches & Agniia Galdanova unleash inner demons through creature drag on Paris’ streets, pairs “You’re Alright” with a surreal Paris-set visual world built around creature drag, identity and self-acceptance.
Source: NOWNESS; Kill Rock Stars. Production credits via NOWNESS.
