Kim Gordon has reworked “BYE BYE,” the lead single from her 2024 album, The Collective, right into a protest music towards President Donald Trump’s insurance policies. Stream it under.
Titled “BYE BYE 25!,” the grinding and bass-heavy remake substitutes Gordon’s unique lyrics — a packing checklist for an upcoming journey — for phrases that the present administration has flagged and used to cancel grant initiatives or analysis proposals. These phrases embrace advocate, local weather change, feminine, Hispanic, immigrants, psychological well being, trauma, uterus, sufferer, and girls.
“(Producer and collaborator) Justin Raisen had this concept to redo ‘Bye Bye’ beginning on the finish of the music,” Gordon defined in an announcement. “Once I was pondering of lyric concepts it occurred to me to make use of phrases taken from a website that had all of the phrases that Trump has basically banned, which means any grant or piece of a venture or proposal for analysis that features any of these phrases could be instantly disregarded or ‘cancelled.’ I assume Trump does imagine in cancel tradition. As a result of he’s actually making an attempt to cancel tradition.”
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The Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention (CDC), the Division of Well being and Human Providers (HHS), the Workplace of Personnel Administration (OPM), the Nationwide Science Basis (NSF), and NASA are among the many organizations which have been impacted by the present administration’s insurance policies.
“BYE BYE 25!” arrives with a music video directed by Vice Cooler and Kim Gordon. Watch it under.
Proceeds from the monitor and its accompanying t-shirt will profit NOISE FOR NOW, a reproductive rights nonprofit that allows artists and entertainers to attach with and financially help grassroots organizations that work within the discipline of reproductive well being, rights, and justice.
The unique model of “BYE BYE” was named Consequence’s Song of the Week when it was launched in January 2024. It later made our checklist of the 200 Best Songs of 2024.
In the meantime, Gordon additionally lately announced a tenth anniversary version of her memoir, Lady in a Band, due out on September ninth (pre-order here).
