Singer, songwriter, bassist (and Sonic Youth co-founder) Kim Gordon has released "BYE BYE 25!", a remake of the 2024 track "BYE BYE" from her critically-acclaimed and Grammy-nominated second solo album, The Collective.

All proceeds from song will be donated to NOISE FOR NOW, a nonprofit enabling artists and entertainers to connect with and financially support grassroots organizations working in reproductive health, rights, and justice.

You can listen to the reworked single below:

Gordon, a well-documented feminist and activist, said the idea to re-record "BYE BYE" with words targeted by the Trump administration was happenstance:

"[Producer and collaborator] 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."

A partial list of the words Gordon speaks in "BYE BYE 25!" that current U.S. officials would like to hear less of:

ADVOCATE
CLIMATE CHANGE
FEMALE
HISPANIC
IMMIGRANTS
INTERSEX
MALE-DOMINATED
MENTAL HEALTH 
NON-CONFORMING
TRAUMA
UTERUS
VICTIM
WOMEN

Last year, Gordon released her second solo effort, The Collective, which our very own Melon praised for being "as visceral, bold, and exciting of an experience" as any of her earlier work. Revisit our review: