A highlight from Peaches’ 2015 comeback album Rub, Free Drink Ticket is a bruised and brutal break-up song that stings like salt on an open wound. “Your personality turned to white powder / Your brain’s clammed up chowder,” Peaches tells a former partner who did her wrong, before spitting: “Spineless coward, I can’t fucking stand liars!” Now she’s dropped a suitably dark and disturbing video for the track which shows a near-naked Peaches seemingly flirting with and then riding a bull-headed, snake-like monster. Flawlessly merging the gothic with the erotic, “Free Drink Ticket”is every bit as challenging as Peaches’ recent “Rub” video, which showed people with under-represented body types enjoying non-heterosexual experiences.
The “Free Drink Ticket”video was directed by Sara Sachs, founder of forward-thinking fashion label Moonspoon Saloon, and features choreography from Ryan Heffington, the visionary who worked on Sia’s “Chandelier”and “Elastic Heart”videos. ” ‘Free Drink Ticket’is the darkest and most poetic song I have ever written,” Peaches explains. “For the video, it was important to demonstrate that if you hold onto the bitterness you that you feel from a monster who has hurt you, then you will become the monster that you are trying to shed.” She also says the video’s sinister imagery was inspired by Jean Cocteau’s 1960 film Le testament d’Orphée and the classic 1920 German horror movie The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Peaches will be answering questions about the video on Facebook later today, with her live-chat beginning at 2pm EST.