Synopsis
Peaches turns a nightclub locker room and ladies' restroom into a stage for sexual self-expression. Dressed in revealing pink underwear, she dances, poses, and confronts the camera while exaggerated body hair steadily spreads across her armpits, pubic area, and face. The deliberately graphic imagery transforms grooming taboos into a visual joke and a statement of bodily independence. Edited to match the track's abrasive electro pulse, the video escalates from provocative performance to an unruly, werewolf-like finale.
Factoids & Trivia
- Two versions of the video exist. An earlier Super 8 version uses three separate shots joined together to simulate Peaches' entire body.
- The more elaborate version was produced for the Tobi Neumann remix of "Set It Off," rather than the original album recording.
- Peaches later explained that the video gave her the opportunity to realize an idea she had wanted to explore for some time: watching her body hair grow dramatically on screen.
- The hair was not simply a shock effect. It became an early example of Peaches using exaggerated body imagery to challenge expectations about female grooming, sexuality, and presentation.
- Contemporary coverage described the clip as provocative enough to risk an adults-only rating, helping establish Peaches as an artist who treated censorship and sexual convention as part of her creative material.
- The video became one of the signature visual references associated with Peaches' early work and was repeatedly cited in later discussions of her influence on gender-defying pop performance.