Photo courtesy of Girlie Action Writer, producer and record label mogul Princess Superstar brings her sex-soaked, hip-hop show to Club Congress tomorrow night.

Before the ladies of the Moulin Rouge, before Lil' Kim and Foxy Brown released their oh-so-dirty debuts, there was Princess Superstar.

In fact, the same year Lil' Kim had her pastie-covered breast fondled at the MTV Music Awards, Princess Superstar walked right out of a James Bond movie and down the streets of New York City in nothing but gold paint and panties for the cover of her CD, Last of the Great 20th Century Composers, like a hip-hop Pussy Galore.

But with her ability to run her own show, from writing to producing to releasing her own albums, Princess Superstar, who plays Club Congress this Wednesday, seems part Bond girl and part Bond.

And one other thing: Just because she's a white MC doesn't mean she's the female Eminem (or Feminem, if you will). While Her Royal Rhymeness doesn't hate such comparisons, she doesn't think they're very accurate.

"I think he's a great lyricist, but I think what I do is a lot different from what he does. I add elements of electronica punk rock to my music. This is already my fourth album. I play instruments and produce and sing," she said. "I'm more than just an MC. I think it's a real lazy comparison. I think it comes off of people hearing just one song like 'Babysitter,' or something like that. But at the end of the day, he is a great lyricist, so it's also a compliment."

"Babysitter," the Eminem-compared track off her latest album, Princess Superstar Is, features the memorable chorus, "I'm a bad babysitter, got my boyfriend in your shower, Woo! I'm makin' six bucks an hour." But it's far from being the naughtiest track on her album. Those looking to work themselves into a puddle just need to listen to her duet with Kool Keith, "Keith 'N Me," or "Wet! Wet! Wet!"

"This album is a lot more sort of hip-hop in a way the beats, but there's also some electronica, some punk rock. I think it's a lot more focused. And I have some incredible guest stars like Kool Keith and Beth Orton," she said.

If being a female MC who writes and produces is a little unusual now, it was quite unheard of when Kirschner decided to become an MC. Back then, there weren't many female - let alone white female - MCs around. Armed with an over-the-top alter-ego, a few credit cards to fund her label and her diverse list of influences, Kirschner decided to get into the hip-hop business.

"It was a combination of listening to the music that I listened to, like everybody from the Beastie Boys to Queen Latifah to Biggie Smalls. It's something that I always loved, and I thought I'd try it," she said.

"When I first started out, I was really bad and really slow. But it was also kind of funny in a way so people encouraged me to keep going."

Within a few years, Kirschner was releasing her second album, CEO, on her own record label, A Big Rich Major Label (now named The Corrupt Conglomerate), as well as writing and producing her own tracks.

"I'm most proud of starting my own label. That's what's allowed me to become the artist that I am. I think that I am really proud of myself, that I did that, that I had enough belief in myself to do that five years ago, when I could have waited around to get signed," she said.

"That's the greatest thing because that's what led me to be able to learn to write and produce and do all that."

With all that work, Princess Superstar has precious little time to play. So while a Snoop Dogg party stops at "six in the morning," and Ludacris goes home around eight, being on tour means Kirschner has to leave for the next party much earlier.

"(A Princess Superstar party ends) probably at 12:30, because I have to go to the next town," she said, laughing. "I always have to leave. I play a town, then I party for a second, then I have to get on the tour bus and leave. Yeah, 12:30 a.m."

The Princess' show - which also features her DJ, Alexander Technique, and another MC, 7Even - won't be your typical hip-hop show.

"I think that what you're gonna see is a lot more theatrical than most hip-hop shows. I'm really influenced by everything from theater to punk rock and hip-hop," she said.

"I go through some costume changes and stuff like that. So it's not your typical 'wave your hands in the air'-type show."

Princess Superstar plays Club Congress, 311 E. Congress St., tomorrow night at 9. Call Solar Culture at 884-0874 for more info.