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"Operate"
"Operate"
Single by Peaches
from the album Fatherfucker
Released	September 8, 2003
Genre	Electroclash; dance-punk;
Label	XL Recordings
Songwriter(s)	Peaches; Sticky Henderson;
Producer(s)	Peaches
Peaches singles chronology

"Operate" is a song written and recorded by Peaches and Sticky Henderson. The song was released as a double limited vinyl A-side with "Shake Yer Dix" to promote the release of her second studio album Fatherfucker.

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]