{{Short description|2021 song by Alaska Thunderfuck}} {{Infobox song | name = ROY G BIV BBT | cover = ROY G BIV BBT, Alaska Thunderfuck.jpg | alt = | border = | caption = | type = single | artist = Alaska Thunderfuck | album = | released = {{Start date|2021|05|21}} | recorded = | studio = | genre = <!--do not add unsourced genres--> | length = {{Duration|2:33}}<ref name="AllMusic">{{cite web |title=Alaska Thunderfuck: Roy G Biv Bbt |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/roy-g-biv-bbt-mw0003531007 |website=AllMusic |publisher=RhythmOne |access-date=June 27, 2021 |archive-date=June 28, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210628010715/https://www.allmusic.com/album/roy-g-biv-bbt-mw0003531007 |url-status=live }}</ref> | label = Producer Entertainment Group | writer = {{hlist|Ashley Levy|Justin Honard|Nick Laughlin|Paul Coultrup|Toby Marlow|Tomas Costanza}} | producer = Thomas Costanza | prev_title = Let It Snow (Ivan and Peter Mix) | prev_year = 2020 | next_title = Red | next_year = 2021 | tracks = <!--see "Track listing examples" section for album track listing options--> | misc = <!--for use of {{Extra chronology}}, {{Extra track listing}}, {{Extra album cover}}, {{Audio sample}}, {{External music video}}--> }} "'''ROY G BIV BBT'''" is a song by Alaska Thunderfuck, released in 2021. The song has been described as a "pride anthem".<ref name="HT">{{cite journal |last1=GIROUX |first1=JACK |title=Stoned and Chatty with Alaska Thunderfuck |journal=High Times |date=June 15, 2021 |url=https://hightimes.com/culture/stoned-and-chatty-with-alaska-thunderfuck/ |access-date=June 27, 2021 |archive-date=June 16, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210616220312/https://hightimes.com/culture/stoned-and-chatty-with-alaska-thunderfuck/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Instinct">{{cite journal |last1=Patterson |first1=Denny |title=Alaska Thunderfuck Releases 2021 Pride Anthem |journal=Instinct |date=May 25, 2021 |url=https://instinctmagazine.com/alaska-thunderfuck-releases-2021-pride-anthem/ |access-date=June 27, 2021 |archive-date=May 25, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210525150614/https://instinctmagazine.com/alaska-thunderfuck-releases-2021-pride-anthem/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Background and composition== The song's title refers to ROYGBIV, an acronym for the sequence of hues commonly described as making up a rainbow (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet), plus the addition of "BBT" to represent black, brown and trans.<ref name=Instinct/> Alaska Thunderfuck co-wrote the song and said: {{Blockquote|I love colors; I love rainbows, and I love speaking assertively over a pounding, techno beat. This is a Pride anthem dedicated to the updated version of the Pride flag, which includes black, brown, and trans rainbow stripes. I look forward to a post-quarantine Pride season where we can dance, dance, dance with our hands above our heads, heads, heads.<ref name=Instinct/>}}

In an interview with ''High Times'', Alaska said of the song and its origins: {{Blockquote|Well, my dear friend Nick, Nick Loughlin, we like to collaborate on everything together all the time. He said, 'You've got to do a pride song called ROY G BIV because that was our way of remembering the colors of the rainbow in order in school.' We then took it from there and we worked with the amazing writers at Killingsworth and Toby Marlo. Now, there's a new pride flag; the pride flag doesn't stop at violet. Now, we have black and brown and the trans colors in there as well. This was the updated celebration of the new pride flag.<ref name=HT/>}}

==Reception== ''Billboard''{{'s}} Stephen Daw said Alaska "pulls out all the stops for a campy, funny, excellent Pride anthem you'll be bumping all the way through June".<ref name="Daw">{{cite magazine |last1=Daw |first1=Stephen |title=First Out: New Music From Lil Nas X, Years & Years, K.Flay & More |magazine=Billboard |date=May 21, 2021 |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/pride/9576160/first-out-lil-nas-x-years-years-k-flay/ |access-date=June 27, 2021 |archive-date=May 31, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210531020122/https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/pride/9576160/first-out-lil-nas-x-years-years-k-flay/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

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==External links== {{Portal|LGBTQ}} * {{YouTube|id=x0ws2n3zmRs|title=Alaska Thunderfuck – ROY G BIV BBT (Official Music Video)}}

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