Kim Gordon has given “BYE BYE” from her fantastic 2024 album The Collective an anti-Trump remake. “(Producer and collaborator) Justin Raisen had this idea to redo ‘Bye Bye’ starting at the end of the song,” she says. “When I was thinking of lyric ideas, it occurred to me to use words taken from a site that had all the words that Trump has essentially banned, meaning any grant or piece of a project or proposal for research that includes any of those words would be immediately disregarded or ‘cancelled.’ I guess Trump does believe in cancel culture, because he is literally trying to cancel culture.”
Kim directed the accompanying video — an homage to Bob Dylan’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues” — with Vice Cooler, and you can watch it below. There’s also a t-shirt that goes with the song, and proceeds from both go to reproductive rights nonprofit NOISE FOR NOW.
Kim also recently paid tribute to the late Sly Stone:
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