Singer Iyah May has emerged as the new darling of the political right after her latest track, “Karmageddon,” became a viral hit on social media.
The Australian musician, whose stage name is usually stylized in lowercase, has garnered a wave of attention after stating in Instagram posts that her management dropped her because she refused to change certain lyrics in the song.
In the song, May rails against “big pharma,” a “man-made virus,” “cancel culture,” and a war that she brands “genocide.”
Erasing any doubt about the lyrical targets, May’s website describes the track as “addressing the pandemic narrative, corruption within political, pharmaceutical, and health institutions, the Israel-Palestine conflict, violence against women and the social chaos that has swept through the world in the past few years.”
“While …