"I won't let you take it from me": Paris Paloma releases new anti-AI anthem ‘Miyazaki’

Miyazaki released March 17 2026 [credit Phoebe Fox/ Clash]

Named after Hayao Miyazaki, filmmaker and co-founder of Japanese animation studio, Studio Ghibli, the single shares a powerful message of the impact of self-expression through art on Paloma, and the threat that generative AI models pose on her ability to create. The music video, directed by Georgie Cowan-Turner, sees Paloma don a suit of armour and face off against “a monster of a thousand voices that always wants one more.”

Paris Paloma stars as knight in shining armour in 'Miyazaki' music video [Image: Paris Paloma Youtube Channel]

In a statement to Dork Magazine, Paris Paloma said: "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."

But Paris Paloma’s desire to support real art does not end with the song's release: in a video posted to her social media on the 4th March,

She also enlisted fans to create art to be included in an upcoming lyric video for the single. Paloma stated that the collaborative fan project would “celebrate our human made art and creativity” and feature fans’ “hand-drawn, handwritten and hand-painted lyrics”. There is no set release date for this video at the time of writing.

This project is not the first time Paloma has collaborated with her fans. After the enthusiastic reaction to her breakthrough track, ‘Labour’, in 2023, a second version of the track ('LABOUR - the cacophony') was released, featuring the voices of fans chanting the powerful lyrics alongside her.

Hailed as a “feminist anthem” by The Guardian, ‘Labour’ resonated with listeners across the world and wracked up over 380 million streams on Spotify. Paloma has since sold out venues across the world and supported Florence + The Machine on the UK-EU leg of the “Everybody Scream” tour, teasing the then-unreleased 'Miyazaki' during her set.

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