Paris Paloma has once again proven that she is not slowing down. Having just come off the European and U.K. leg of Florence + The Machine’s Everybody Scream Tour as opener, she has returned with her newest single, “Miyazaki.” The song is titled after Hayao Miyazaki, a famed director and one of the founders of Japanese animation studio, Studio Ghibli.
The music video released alongside the single features Paloma donning a suit of armor and running through a forest as she is chased by a monster — the monster being a representation of AI. It perfectly matches with the song, which is in itself a scathing decree against the use of artificial intelligence, with lyrics, “Whenever I fear death I think of that which I would fear much more / Never dying, is that what you all are striving for / I leave a stream of greenery in every path I walk / Chased by a monster of a thousand voices that always wants one more.”
Paloma stated, “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.”
Miyazaki is out now.
Paris Paloma will be playing at Hinterland Music Festival in Saint Charles, IA and Lollpalooza in Chicago, IL this July.
