We’re thinking that the fornication-fixated Philadelphia rapper Amanda Blank is a big fan of the Sex Pistols. Either that or she’s just happy to see us.

Thanks to M.I.A., there’s never been a better time to be hip, female, and a rapper. Since the indie diva’s Clash-sampling “Paper Planes” became a worldwide smash last year, a new wave of savvy female artists has flooded the blogosphere with the kind exaggerated boasts and lewd come-ons you normally hear from knuckle-dragging rap dudes. As with her contemporaries Kid Sister and Santigold, Amanda Blank’s music references first-generation electro, a backdrop over which she sprays the kind of sexual references that might make the guys in 2 Live Crew blush.

A typical verse from Blank’s debut album, I Love You, runs like this: “Ride, no lie just get inside me/Like you better if you just ride me/Grind me, try me, watch me finish/I like you better if you get up in it.” That’s from a song called “Might Like You Better”, which finds the rapper sizing up a boy-toy she’s into for the sex, and the sex alone.

While that’s a run-of-the-mill rap narrative, the fact it’s coming from a woman seems to have pissed off Internet music critics something awful. Pitchfork, for instance, ripped into I Love You, saying that Blank “feels like the last bulwark between some imagined indie community of shared self-awareness and an outright void of crassness.” The Philadelphia native hasn’t been able to figure out what that means, exactly, but she knows it’s not nice.

“People can be vicious,” she says from a tour stop in San Francisco. “When they love you, they fucking love you, but when they hate you, they’d set you on fire if they could. You would think that some of these critics owned music; they own everything about it, but they don’t make any of their own. At the end of the day, I’m more concerned about teenage girls. Those are the people whose opinions matter to me.”

Indeed, I Love You seems like the type of album an especially cool and slightly naughty teenage girl should be rocking through her headphones on the way to school. But having toured with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Matt and Kim, the rapper can count more than just schoolgirls among her fans. In her videos, the angular Blank comes off like an MC in an indie chick’s body. Blank herself is still surprised that she ended up taking to hip-hop over any other genre.

“I’ve always listened to rap music, and when I started to write songs, that’s what came out naturally,” she explains. “That’s the way my musical brain works; everything comes out in these silly little raps. But then when I started rapping, I was really nervous. Luckily, most people seem to have taken to it, and other rappers have always been super-supportive. It’s only 30-something-year-old white men that have an issue with me.”

Amanda Blank opens for Peaches at the Commodore Ballroom on Wednesday (November 25).