Kim Gordon has shared a new version of ‘Bye Bye’, the lead track from her 2024 album, The Collective.
The new version, titled ‘Bye Bye 25!’, has been positioned as a protest song against US President Donald Trump and his administration. The lyrics have been updated to swap out some of the original words – a packing list for a trip – for words that the current administration has flagged to cancel grant projects and research proposals.
In a statement, Gordon said: “[Producer] Justin Raisen had this idea to redo ‘Bye Bye’ starting at the end of the song. 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.”
Watch a video for ‘Bye Bye 25!’ below.
‘Bye Bye 25!’ is out now on Matador.
