International pop sensation Holly Valance has spoken out on GB News after a leading streaming service banned her “anti-woke” song.
Written for Pauline Hanson’s new film, A Super Progressive Movie, the track “Kiss Kiss (XX) My A**e, was released on Australia Day and topped the charts on Apple Music iTunes, beating the likes of Harry Styles.
After the song overtook Olivia Dean’s “Man I Need”, which featured in last year’s Bridget Jones sequel, it was briefly pulled from the streaming service.
In response to backlash, the song was brought back to live on Apple Music on Friday.
Holly Valance joined GB News
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“If it was like a Trump-bashing right left-wing, Farage-bashing, song that someone on the left side of politics made, then it would have been fine. It would have been no issues because the right don’t tend to have toddler tantrums,” Ms Valance said.
Australian-born Ms Valance, who now lives in the UK, has risen in fame amid politicians, becoming an ardent advocate of conservative politics and openly backed Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.
Speaking about her song, the singer told GB News: “I think it’s a really clever way to battle these things with humour.
“Because once you become the butt of all jokes, it’s kind of over. So when you’re using those things, you know, oh, God, there’s a is ‘they’ coming with us for dinner?
“And people are, like, rolling their eyes. Then, you know, okay, the the scales are tipping and common sense is coming back.”
She added: “I mean, I’m just sitting at home, being a keyboard warrior and shouting at the TV from my couch. So I’m not standing on stage with 300 people in a club trying to do comedy.
“It depends, you know, how long you’d like to keep your career for?” the popstar joked.
Ms Valance explained how she never received any notification the song had been pulled from the streaming service and only found out on social networks.
“We never received any email officially from iTunes or Apple or anybody,” she exclaimed, adding: “So I was like, what’s going on?
Holly Valance spoke at Reform UK’s 2024 conference
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“It was actually X people told me. And so he looked into it and were like, ‘oh my God, it’s been removed’.
“But we can have all the gangster rap glorifying violence, glorifying drugs and rape culture and, you know, anything foul, that’s fine. No worries guys!
“But taking the mick in a cartoon, having a few gags at people’s expenses… No, very dangerous – have to get rid!” she sarcastically slung.
Nevertheless, she scoffed: “You can’t cherry pick because three weirdos called in and didn’t like something because then we’d have no music ever.”
Ms Valance chuckled at the the streaming organisation for “doing her a favour” offering her project free PR and promotion across the globe.
“It was perfect. It was absolutely perfect. That’s how I wanted it to go, because it gave us free PR, people got up in arms about it, backed me, backed the project, backed Pauline. It helped the film.
“It did absolutely the opposite of what they were hoping for it to do. So I thank them so much.”
The controversial song lasted five days on Apple before it was pulled on Friday, gaining 50,000 streams on fellow streaming site Spotify.