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Paris Paloma teams up with Richard Armitage for powerful ‘Good Girl’ video
The track is an infuriated, thought-provoking commentary on patriarchal beauty standards.
Paris Paloma has continued her run of feminist anthems with ‘Good Girl’ - a rallying cry against the pervasive, poisonous beauty standards peddled by a society that plays to the male gaze.
The single follows recent cut ‘Good Boy’ (which explores the idea that patriarchy is repressing men as well as women) as well as her 2024 debut album ‘Cacophony’, and sees Paris delve into the complicated relationship between her body and what’s perceived as ‘beautiful’. “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,” she has noted.
“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.”
Reflecting on the ubiquity of diet culture, plastic surgery, and social media shame, she has explained that ‘Good Girl’ represents “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.
“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.”
Starring alongside actor Richard Armitage in the track’s video, Paris depicts how all too frequently, women are expected to be ornamental, not autonomous; to be observed, not embraced. Check it out for yourself here:
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