A song performed by Holly Valance and released by One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has climbed to the top of the Australian Apple Music iTunes chart.
Released on January 26th, the song, titled “Kiss Kiss (XX) My Arse”, is a revamped version of the former Neighbours star’s early-2000s hit “Kiss Kiss”. The reimagined version, performed and co-written by Valance, leans into what Hanson described as “woke culture”, with contentious lyrics aimed at gender identity debates and progressive politics.
Within hours of its release, the song surged up the iTunes best-seller lists (which measures paid downloads rather than streaming), outpacing recent hits from mainstream artists including the triple j Hottest 100-winning “Man I Need” by Olivia Dean.
It has not yet appeared on more popular charts like the daily updated Apple Music Australian Top 100 or the Spotify Australian Top 50.
The associated music video features exaggerated imagery and lyrics that explicitly target transgender people and “snowflake” culture. Lyrics have started receiving backlash online, particularly criticism from LGBTQIA+ advocates and cultural commentators.
The song was released to promote Hanson’s self-promotional film A Super Progressive Movie. The animated movie follows four “progressives” who are forced to travel beyond the “Naarm bubble” and are then catapulted into the real world – which in the movie is led by a prime minister Pauline Hanson – to search for “their ideology’s most powerful weapon: the Victimhood”.
It leans on a series of stereotypes of LGBTQIA+ people, shows Hanson in sunglasses in a helicopter, and at one point appears to depict Uluṟu being blown up.
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This comes only days after several artists have distanced themselves from One Nation, including Hoodoo Gurus and Men at Work’s Colin Hay.
In a post shared on social media, Hoodoo Gurus said they were “disgusted” to learn one of their songs had been played by One Nation during an Australia Day rally, describing the group as “wannabe fascists.”
“Like most Australians, we have always been appalled by Pauline Hanson and the toxic nonsense she spouts,” they wrote. “We want nothing to do with you. In fact, we wouldn’t piss on you if you were on fire.”
Similarly, Hay shared his disapproval of his band’s song – “Down Under” – being used by Australian anti-immigration protesters, particularly in the lead up to January 26th.
“Let me say that I most strenuously disapprove of any unauthorised, unlicensed use of ‘Down Under’, for any ‘March for Australia’ events,” Hay wrote. “‘Down Under’, a song I co-wrote, does not belong to those who attempt to sow xenophobia within the fabric of our great land, our great people. ‘Down Under’ is ultimately a song of celebration. It’s for pluralism and inclusion; unity, not division.”
Rolling Stone AU/NZ has contacted Apple Music, Spotify, and ARIA for comment.
