Former Sonic Youth provokes former president in a new version of solo music and criticizes attempted cultural censorship in the United States
Kim Gordon is back with a revamped and provocative version of your music “BYE BYE”now renamed as “Bye Bye 25!”. The track gains a new breath and meaning by including a list of words that, according to it, were prohibited in official documents during the government of Donald Trumpamong them, terms such as “immigrants”, “climate change”, “woman”, “Latin” and “advocate”.
The song, originally released on its second album Solo The Collectivewas rebuilt from an idea of the producer Justin Raisen: Start the song at the end. Inspired by the experimental approach, Kim decided to fill the verses with words that would have been vetoed in edicts and research proposals under the management Trumpin an attempt to eradicate what the former president calls “Woke Agenda.”
“I realized that it would be powerful to use these terms that Trump Try to erase, ”he said Kim.
If he says he is against the cancellation culture, it is pure irony, because what he is doing is literally cancel the culture.
The launch of “Bye Bye 25!” preceded the protests In Kingsscheduled for June 14 in several US cities, demonstrations that criticize authoritarianism and reinforce the US democratic ideal. All income collected with official music and merchandising will be reversed to the organization Noise for nowwhich acts in the defense of reproductive rights.
Kim Gordonalternative rock icon since the times of Sonic Youthcontinues using your art as a form of resistance and social commentary. The artist recently passed through Brazil to perform in the Popload Festival.
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Source: Rollingstone
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