Paris Paloma takes a bite at the patriarchy with her new single “Good Boy.” The single was released alongside its music video, starring Paloma and Tom Blythe, who is known for his role as young president Snow in “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” from the “Hunger Games” franchise.
“Good Boy” has been long anticipated by her fans since its live debut on Jun. 5 in Manchester during her Cacophony Tour. It is the first piece of music Paloma has released since her single, “The Rider,” in Nov. of 2024. After her single “Labour” took off on social media, the Derbyshire-native emerged as a prominent advocate for women, and her latest release “Good Boy” continues that charge.
The song opens with the actress and outspoken advocate for women, Emma Thompson: “I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down– I just didn’t expect them to be such losers.” Paloma chose this incredible quote because it truly speaks to the main theme of the song.
The main theme calls out the men who uphold the patriarchal system and idolize billionaires in hopes to one day be in that position of power. “The song is my way of saying to these men that you have more in common with me, you have more in common with everyday women than the billionaires and the manosphere ‘role models’ that you idolize and uplift with no reward,” Paloma said in a previewing video on Instagram. “Not even a ‘well done’ or a ‘good boy.’”
Paloma will be supporting Florence + the Machine on their Everybody Scream Tour in the UK and Europe this winter. It kicks off on Feb. 6 in Belfast. Her songs normally represent female rage in her lyrics, which was why her single “Labour” did so incredibly well. Fans are incredibly psyched to hear this newest single in person and on a stage.
This scorching anti-capitalist, feminist anthem for the working class has already won the hearts of an abundant number of fans in many ways, and is described as a gut-punching, defiant anthem that demands we all wake up and see what the patriarchy has been doing.
My Review
I had real chills, not the metaphorical ones–the real, full-body kind that starts in your spine and blooms outward. I had already known before I listened that I was in for a ride, as I’ve discovered with all of Paloma’s songs, and she absolutely did not disappoint. I listened to it plenty of times to memorize every lyric until it felt engraved in my very bones.
This song is a call to every man to open their eyes to stop confusing obedience with virtue. I don’t see it as a song about hating men– it’s about dismantling the system that’s hurting all of us.
