Holly ValanceA song by Pauline Hanson performed by Holly Valance has topped the Australian Apple Music iTunes Chart following its release on the Australia Day public holiday on Monday (26 January).
The song, Kiss Kiss (XX) My Arse, is a revamped version of Valance’s 2002 hit single, Kiss Kiss—albeit with new lyrics. The reimagined track ridicules transgender people and “woke culture,” with combative lines about pronouns, “white guilt,” virtue signalling, cancel culture, heterosexual couples being “contraband,” and mocking “snowflakes.”
By already topping the Australian Apple Music iTunes Chart, the pair have overtaken triple j Hottest 100 winner and runner-up, Olivia Dean’s Man I Need and Keli Holiday’s Dancing2. However, Karnivool’s new track Animation is also surging up the chart at #2 and may just nab the top spot by the end of the week.
While Kiss Kiss (XX) My Arse has topped one chart, it hasn’t yet appeared on the popular Apple Music Top 100 and the Spotify Australian Top 50 charts, which track what songs the Australian public is listening to each week.
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The single was released to promote Pauline Hanson’s newly released self-promotional film, A Super Progressive Movie. It also marks Valance’s first new music since 2003. In 2024, she made headlines for blasting “crap” left-wing ideas and endorsing the British Conservative Party.
An Australian singer and actress, Holly Valance enjoyed a pop music career in the early 2000s, scoring top 3 singles in Kiss Kiss, Down Boy and Naughty Girl from her 2002 album Footprints. She released her second and final album, State Of Mind, in 2003.
Valance launched her music career after starring as Felicity Scully in Neighbours from 1999 until 2002. She’s also starred in the 2000s films Taken, DOA: Dead Or Alive and Pledge This, as well as a starring role in the TV hit series Prison Break.
News.com.au reports that A Super Progressive Movie follows four “progressives” who end up travelling outside of Hanson’s proclaimed “Naarm bubble” and “into the real world.” Of course, Hanson is the Prime Minister in the movie, and leads as the quartet look for “their ideology’s most powerful weapon: the Victimhood.”
Like the song, Hanson’s film reportedly spotlights stereotypes of LGBTQIA+ people and, at one point, seems to show Uluru being blown up.
On social media, Hanson said Valance immediately said “yes” to the surprise collaboration and that she enjoyed the film's jokes. “When we phoned Holly Valance to write us a song for the movie, she instantly said ‘Yes,’” Hanson wrote.
“A massive shout out to Holly who I know watched the film last night and spat water across the room during one particular scene. Tells me the jokes landed really well.”
The release of the single comes as Hoodoo Gurus condemned the use of their song, What’s My Scene, at political rallies led by Hanson’s party, One Nation.
Describing One Nation as “a bunch of wannabe fascists,” the band said they’re “appalled” by Hanson’s usual rhetoric and expressed their distaste for her supporters, going as far as to tell them not to play Hoodoo Gurus songs.
