The Fat Angel Sings

It wasn’t enough that a solo Kim Gordon, in melodic rock-out mode, had a crit-list top 10 in her 2024 album The Collective and its center piece song, “Bye Bye.” Rather than concentrate on the Family Feud–like question of what one might bring on vacation with this new re-recording, Gordon instead rips through a list of items that the Trump administration has cancelled or bankrolled, from “diversity” and “housing for the future” in one verse, to “mental health” and “victim”-hood in another.

“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.” –

Kim Gordon The words Gordon speaks in “BYE BYE 25!” have begun to disappear under Trump’s agenda.