Paris Paloma – Miyazaki

Following a sold-out UK and European arena tour supporting Florence + The Machine, which saw Florence join her on stage in Berlin for a powerful rendition of “Labour”, feminist singer-songwriter Paris Paloma returns with her new single, “Miyazaki”: a defiant ode to the unstoppable human need to create. Named after legendary Studio Ghibli director Hayao Miyazaki, famed both for his era-defining body of work and his outspoken criticism of AI-generated art as “an insult to life itself”, the song captures the beautiful, exhausting and unstoppable compulsion to make something real. In an era of the growing presence of artificial intelligence in the arts, Paris proclaims that the human impulse to create cannot be automated. The official video, directed by long-time collaborator Georgie Cowan-Turner, sees Paris, playing The Soldier, running from an ominous, threatening figure that you never really see fully.

“I wrote this song about art, about the burning, urgent desire to create art as my way of making sense of the world, and as my way of resisting darkness and hatred. It’s a defiant song, about defending the human need of artistic creation in a world that is increasingly devaluing it in the face of AI; that’s why it is named after renowned director Hayao Miyazaki, who famously called generative AI in animation “an insult to life itself.” I wrote this song for everyone who has an urgent and unexplained need to express themselves through their art; it is for the painters, the dancers, the writers, the storytellers, the crafters, the directors, the singers, musicians, anybody who relates to this creative fire, and the threat that AI generated slop might take the place of essential humanity,” states Paris.

“Miyazaki” follows the release of “Good Girl” and “Good Boy.”

Both follow the 2024 release of her debut album Cacophony.

Paloma recently finished a run of tour dates with Florence + The Machine and has more shows later in the summer.

Paris Paloma Tour Dates

July 3 – Werchter, Belgium – Rock Werchter

July 9 – Bilbao, Spain – Bilbao BBK Live

July 17 – Ostrava, Czechia – Colours of Ostrava

July 31 – Saint Charles, IA – Hinterland Music Festival

August 13 – Budapest, Hungary – Sziget

August 14 – Copenhagen, Denmark – Syd For Solen

August 15 – Hamburg, Germany – MS Dockville

August 16 – Angus, United Kingdom – Summer’s End Angus

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