Kim Gordon re-records her 2024 song Bye Bye and re-tools it to feature all the words “cancelled” by Trump under his second presidency.

This is very clever. Kim Gordon has taken her shopping list song Bye Bye and transformed it into an indictment of you-know-who.

Where once she listed items for an imaginary holiday trip, now she has replaced the items with a catalogue of words erased from the 2025 narrative by Trump.

Now she’s ramming the message home in a video using cards in the style of Dylan’s legendary I(and much-imitated) one for Subterranean Homesick Blues.

And all proceeds from the sale of the single – and associated T-shirt – will be donated to a reproductive rights charity.

Gordon’s producer and collaborator Justin Raisen had the idea to redo ‘Bye Bye’ starting at the end of the song, Gordon explains.

“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.”

Trump has used the term “cancel culture” not only as a political talking point but also as a dog whistle while weaponizing the term to signal support for white grievance politics, traditional gender roles, anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment and hostility toward racial justice movements – without always saying those things outright.

Some of the words Gordon speaks in “BYE BYE 25!” that have begun to disappear under Trump’s agenda include:

ADVOCATE

CLIMATE CHANGE

FEMALE

HISPANIC

IMMIGRANTS

INTERSEX

MALE-DOMINATED

MENTAL HEALTH

NON-CONFORMING

TRAUMA

UTERUS

VICTIM

WOMEN