Sonic Youth‘s Kim Gordon has released a new version of her solo song “BYE BYE” with updated lyrics in protest of President Donald Trump.
“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,'” Gordon shares. “I guess Trump does believe in cancel culture, because he is literally trying to cancel culture.”
Sample lyrics include “immigrants,” “Gulf of Mexico” and “transgender.”
You can listen to the updated “BYE BYE,” dubbed “BYE BYE 25!,” now via digital outlets. The song’s music video, featuring Gordon holding cards with each lyric, “Subterranean Homesick Blues”-style, is on YouTube.
Proceeds from “BYE BYE 25!” will be donated to the reproductive rights organization Noise for Now.
The original “BYE BYE” appears on Gordon’s Grammy-nominated 2024 album, The Collective.
