The humour comes chuckling through the title track of her latest album, Doin' It For The Chicks.
Kate Reid is a singer songwriter who will take to the Art Space stage Saturday night at 8 p.m.
The title track is quite a bold statement.
"Sometimes I get irritated with people's homophobia and I just wanted to write something snappy and bad assy and cathartic." said Reid. "That song is my cheeky response to those people who mudsling at the queer community. I'm so tired of hearing that stuff and I just thought well, here it is, it's back in your face -- what are you going to do with it now?"
The cover of Doin' It For The Chicks is a photo of Reid with a cigar in her hand, staring into the camera while a harem of pretty girls fawn all over her.
"And the album cover makes me laugh every time I look at it!"
A fan favourite is a song called Captain Cupcake and the Cambie Hotel. Reid said it's a long song but it tells a really good story.
When it comes to her style of music, which is telling a story to music, it lends itself to a captive audience. This is not the type of music people would have a conversation over, while Reid sings in the background.
"Sometimes it's a curse and sometimes it's great because I want people to listen," said Reid. "It's just something that I hit upon. I like stories, I like descriptive stuff and I love words so I just had to fit it all together and syllabic rhyming is totally fun and I totally get off on it. Rhyming words is like fitting pieces into a big puzzle."
Reid came into performing later in life while she grew up with music all around her.
"So I only started pursuing music as a career about five years ago," said the 40 year old. "Because in my 20s and 30s I was quite lost, I didn't know what I wanted to do with my life and I always had these dreams of making music but it never translated into real life for me because I couldn't imagine how it was going to happen."
It took quite a bit for Reid to gather up the courage to take a stab at the dream.
"I didn't want to look back at my life and ask why I didn't try that?" said Reid.
Reid performs at Art Space, above Books & Co., 1685 Third Avenue Saturday at 8 p.m. Tickets in advance are $12 at Books & Co. or $15 at the door.
