Operate
2003 single by Peaches
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"Operate" is a song by Peaches from her second studio album Fatherfucker. It was written by Peaches and Sticky Henderson, and was released as a limited edition vinyl double A-side with "Shake Yer Dix" as the first single from the album.
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| Single by Peaches | ||||
| from the album Fatherfucker | ||||
| Released | September 8, 2003 | |||
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| Label | XL Recordings | |||
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| Producer | Peaches | |||
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Track listing
- UK CD single[2]
- "Operate" – 3:28
- "Shake Yer Dix" – 3:32
Song usage
"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
| Chart (2003) | Peak position |
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| UK Singles Chart[7] | 112 |