A new song written by noughties pop star Holly Valance has been removed from Apple Music after it reached the number one spot on Australia’s iTunes song chart.
Valance, 42, teamed up with the country’s One Nation party leader Pauline Hanson to pen a tune for her new satirical film, A Super Progressive Movie, which dropped on Monday to mark Australia Day.
Kiss Kiss (XX) My Arse – no doubt a reference to her 2002 single Kiss Kiss, a UK number one hit – took aim at cancel culture, ‘woke’ ideology and virtue signalling, opening with the lyrics proclaiming: ‘You will respect my pronouns.’
It then begins: ‘Not all ladies have ovaries, some have a penis / They say that I’m a he but I’m a she / Cos I gotta V and not a D.’
With the repeated refrain ‘I’m a real biological woman’ morphing into ‘I’m a real diabolical lefty’ and then ‘I’m a real pathological snowflake’, the song insists: ‘I’ll intimidate, I’ll indoctrinate.’
Further lyrics include, ‘We’ve got two dads on every TV ad / No-one wants a hetero cos they’re contraband’ as well as ‘I don’t care what people say, I’ll never be a him or them or they’.
The song also touches on other political issues as it remarks, ‘Fave song – from the river to the sea / No job but I bleed LGBT… Q+, ya bigot’, ‘Obese with body positivity (you’re fat)’ and ‘Welcome to the country but it’s not your land (Well who’s is it then?) / It’s your wife’s boyfriend [sic]’.
Kiss Kiss (XX) My Arse was removed from Apple Music on Thursday, after it leapfrogged songs by the likes of Olivia Dean and Harry Styles to claim the top spot in Australia.
Users now get an error message reading ‘The page you’re looking for can’t be found’ when they look up the track name.
Apple Music has yet to address the removal publicly.
Valance kick-started her career in 1999 in the TV soap opera Neighbours before pivoting to music and recording two albums as well as taking her career over to LA, where she appeared in TV series Prison Break as Nika Volek, as well as films including Taken with Liam Neeson.
After taking a professional hiatus in 2013 to prioritise her family, in recent years she has become a right-wing political activist.
A Super Progressive Movie ‘follows four progressives whose rainbow malfunctions, sending them into a world led by ‘Prime Minister Hanson’’, according to Sky News Australia.
Hanson shared on social media that singer-songwriter ‘instantly said yes’ when her team reached out to ask her to write a song for the film.
‘A massive shout out to Holly who I know watched the film last night and spat water across the room during one particular scene,’ the Australian senator added on X. ‘Tells me the jokes landed really well.’
The singer-songwriter has also been active on the social platform, sharing a screengrab earlier this week which showed Kiss Kiss (XX) My Arse in the number one spot with the caption ‘whoops’.
Following it being taken off the platform, she posted on Thursday morning: ‘Actual liberals are FOR free speech. Libtards… not so much.’
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Alongside a series of retweets pointing out the type of music still allowed on the platform, such as ‘rappers idolising violence, assault, drug use, criminal gangs and sexual abuse’, Valance criticised being silenced for having right-wing opinions.
‘As long as you’re keeping people dumbed down and numb you’re fine,’ she wrote. ‘Do not under any circumstance give right wingers a chance to have an opinion. Theirs don’t count. Ya Fascists! -This is more than “a song with hurty words” guys. Wake up.’
Metro has contacted reps for Apple Music and Holly Valance for comment.
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