Watch Paris Paloma Perform Viral Hit ‘Labour’ Live For Vevo’s DSCVR Series

Emerging UK singer-songwriter Paris Paloma made her debut on Vevo’s DSCVR series with a live performance video for her song “labour.” The track is set to appear on Paloma’s upcoming debut album Cacophony, due out on August 30.

Hailing from Ashbourne, Derbyshire, Paris Paloma “draws on and is inspired by figures from mythology, art history and the Romantics as she channels experience of womanhood throughout her songwriting,” as per press materials. “She is known to speak to the female experience, grief, love, death and power ranging from sentimental and heartbreak to sublimely aggressive and empowering.”

Inspired by Madeline Miller’s 2018 novel Circe, Paloma’s viral hit ‘labour” showcases her lyrical prowess while taking aim at the patriarchy. She sings: “All day, every day, therapist, mother, maid, nymph then a virgin, nurse then a servant, just an appendage, live to attend him, so that he never lifts a finger, 24∕7 baby machine…”

Paloma explained how she envisions listeners reacting to “labour” in a recent NME interview.

“I think I want them to feel heard, or held, and whether they’re listening to something like ‘labour’ and it’s something so angry, I want them to feel like their anger is valid. If it’s something else, I want them to feel comforted, if it makes them cry I want them to feel held while they do that. I hope that my music can serve as a vehicle for a protective sphere in which to feel any emotions that need to be felt.”

Watch Paris Paloma perform “labour” for Vevo’s DSCVR series below.