- 2026-03-18
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MUSIC
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Paris Paloma Premieres New Song “Miyazaki” on BBC Radio 1
British singer-songwriter Paris Paloma premiered a new song “Miyazaki” on BBC Radio 1's New Music Show with Jack Saunders.
The song's title is named after Japanese animated film director Hayao Miyazaki, who famously hates AI.
The track is follow-up to “Good Girl”, which was released back in January.
The song expresses the defense of the human need for artistic creation in a world that increasingly devalues it in the face of AI.
It was written by Paris Paloma and Joe Rubel. Produced by Chloe Kraemer and Joe Rubel.
The accompanying music video was directed by Georgie Cowan-Turner.
Paris Paloma said of the song, “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.”- Paris Paloma told Jack Saunders about the song, “It's joyful. It's urgency. It's like joy and making art as resistance. And I think that's what I want people to take from it. He (Hayao Miyazaki) also very famously hates AI, and he called it an insult to life itself. And so I felt like such a fitting name for everything that this song stands for.”
She continued, “I mean, I come from, like, visual art, and it's a song that I wrote about, like, this really burning, like urgent, like, need to make art for your way of making sense of the world, for your emotional like outlet and your act of like resistance and getting your voice heard.” -
She explained the meaning of the lyrics, “The space in between clapping hands”, “Actually, really interestingly, I say there's not that many illusions to Miyazaki in the song, but that's one of the direct ones. Because there's a I'm not gonna butcher it, but in Japanese, I believe it's called, 'Ma'. And it's basically something that he refers to in his films. There are often these, like, quiet periods in scenes. And it's really different to what we're used to seeing in Hollywood, where you're actually given breathing space to process the events of like, the story. And so the space in between collapse like is what that word means, and what he refers to it as. It's the space to process things, the space to dream, the space to, just feel the sun and then and then make art about it.” - source : BBC Radio 1
