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British indie singer Paris Paloma and Georgie Cowan-Turner, the director of Paloma\u2019s latest music video \u201cGood Boy\u201d (released September 19), are both soft-spoken \u2013 but you\u2019d be a fool to mistake this for meekness. While they resist the all-too-easy descent into heterofatalism, the video\u2019s hard-hitting take on patriarchy does not hold back. Instead, \u201cGood Boy\u201d\u2019s visuals are strikingly cinematic and gorgeously gothic, drawing us into a dynamic story with carefully constructed characters (\u2018Patriarchy\u2019 and \u2018Everyday Woman\u2019) played by Paloma herself, with Tom Blyth in the starring role of the \u2018Good Boy\u2019. At one point he jumps on a table and barks like a rabid dog \u2013 a comment on the dog-eat-dog mentality that Paloma unpacks in her lyrics.<\/span><\/p>\nThe video follows Good Boy as he attempts to ingratiate himself with the other men in his office, taking careful notes on how to emulate their machismo. As he descends further into their world of misogyny, Patriarchy gleefully watches on. He has much more in common with the Everyday Woman, who he aggressively dismisses, but by submitting to the whims of the elites, Good Boy has fallen right into Patriarchy\u2019s trap. The moral of the story becomes clear at the end, when Good Boy is pursued by actual dogs this time (terrifying Alsations), his downfall a product of his ignorance and bigotry.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\n