Paris Paloma – Good Girl
Paris Paloma rejects the male fantasy and reclaims her image in her new single and video for “Good Girl.”
Directed by BAFTA winning filmmaker Georgie Cowan-Turner and starring actor Richard Armitage, the song and video implores Paris to not be the patriarchy’s “good girl,” offering a reckoning with diet culture, anti-ageing obsession and the need to appeal to the male gaze that’s often imposed on women.
“I have been trying for some years now to extricate my relationship with my body from the smug power of patriarchal beauty standards. The belief runs so deep it feels almost biblical: that to be skinny is to be loved, to look young is to be happy, to be shaved is to be sexy; that fighting every natural impulse of your body means you have your life together. Underpinning all of this is the most urgent message of all – that the male gaze is the utmost, desperately important thing to be achieved.
It makes me want to kick, scream, writhe, and distort in agony that this culture does not treat women’s bodies as what they are: mammals, animals, human beings. ‘Good Girl’ articulates that kicking and screaming – the refusal of the idea that my body is for consumption or ornamentation. My body is my vehicle through the world. ‘Good Girl’ is the aching, drudging, daily battle not to fold under the pressure to commit violence against my body: by starving, injecting, constraining, stripping, or going under the knife to reach some new level of social approval that I can mistake for unlocked confidence, or, God forbid – feminist empowerment. There is no end to it, no ceiling to be reached.
‘Good Girl’ is about the violent feeling that rises in me when a man believes my existence is a performance for him. Comments about my shape, my body hair, my teeth, my legs, my face – from catcalls to internet comments, from sexual harassment to insults that strike when I am simply existing. The song is my defiance in the face of men who cannot grasp the fact that I do not give a fuck about their attraction, their approval, or whether they are looking at me. I am looking at them,” urges Paris.
“Good Girl” follows the release of “Good Boy,” a razor-sharp track calling out the manosphere and asking for solidarity over submission to the patriarchy.
The track features an opening from the iconic actress Emma Thompson, and the video is directed by Georgie Cowan-Turner and stars actor Tom Blyth. Together, the two tracks open a new chapter for Paris after the release of her critically-lauded 2024 debut album, Cacophony, which today boasts over 1 Billion streams. Stay tuned for more information on her forthcoming release.
Catch Paris on tour with Florence + The Machine as a special guest on her UK/EU arena tour starting February 6th in Belfast and wrapping on March 9th in Berlin, followed by festival appearances at Hinterland, Rock Werchter and more. This follows a whirlwind year of festival appearances and landmark moments such as performing at All Things Go, Glastonbury, Southside, Bergenfest and sold out UK, EU and US runs, including her most recent debut headline Australian tour.
Paris Paloma Tour Dates
Florence + The Machine Tour Dates
Feb 6 – Belfast, Ireland – SSE Arena
Feb 8 – Birmingham, UK – bp pulse Live
Feb 9 – Glasgow, Scotland – OVO Hydro
Feb 11 – Newcastle, UK – Utilita Arena
Feb 13 – Liverpool, UK – M&S Bank Arena
Feb 14 – Sheffield, UK – Utilita Arena
Feb 16 – London, UK – The O2
Feb 17 – London, UK – The O2
Feb 19 – York, UK – York Barbican*
Feb 20 – Manchester, UK – Co-op Live
Feb 22 – Paris, France – Accor Arena
Feb 23 – Antwerp, Belgium – Sportpaleis
Feb 25 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Ziggo Dome
Feb 26 – Cologne, Germany – Lanxess Arena
March 2 – Vienna, Austria – Stadthalle
March 4 – Munich, Germany – Olympiahalle
March 5 – Prague, Czech Republic – 02 Arena
March 7 – Krakow, Poland – Tauron Arena
March 9 – Berlin, Germany – Uber Arena
July 3 – Werchter, Belgium – Rock Werchter^
July 15 – Ostrava 3, Czechia – Colours of Ostrava^
July 31 – Saint Charles, IA – Hinterland Music Festival^
August 15 – Kobenhavn SV, Denmark – Syd For Solen^
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