Paris Paloma recruits Emma Thompson and Tom Blyth for powerful ‘Good Boy’ video 

Feminist force to be reckoned with Paris Paloma has shared ‘Good Boy’, an eviscerating exploration of men’s patriarchal complicity, which has arrived accompanied by a striking, star-studded video. 

If you think the track’s opening lines sound familiar, than you’d be right - paying homage to journalist Rebecca Shaw’s viral op-ed headline (“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”), these first lyrics are delivered by none other than national treasure Emma Thompson, who Paris first met when working on Lord of the Rings: War of the Rohirrim. 

The visualiser for ‘Good Boy’ also features fellow actor Tom Blyth, who embodies the song’s titular character - a man who is both a perpetrator and victim of patriarchal power structures. Explaining more about the track’s concept, Paris has noted: “’Good Boy’ is a message to men that you have more in common with me, more in common with everyday women, than you do with men in power pushing capitalist patriarchy; so don’t be their good boy. 

“Any knee-jerk reaction to women criticising and working against patriarchy, by calling women ‘man haters’, bites off your own nose, and upholds a system that isolates and betrays you, cutting you off from community and love. You won’t be rewarded by those in power for upholding a system that harms you and benefits them. You’ll get nothing, not even so much as a ‘good boy’.”

Watch the striking video below.