Paris Paloma’s “I Cry In Front Of Paintings” Is the Emotional Gut Punch We Didn’t Know We Needed

British singer and songwriter Paris Paloma has dropped a new song titled “I Cry In Front Of Paintings”. This is one of the upcoming singles from her sophomore album titled “The Fatal Flaw,” set to release on September 4 via Nettwerk Music Group.

This is the second single from her album, following her previous release, “Pre Raphaelite”.

It highlights Paloma’s fascination with art, mythology, and nature.

In a statement describing the song, the artiste said it is the album’s emotional climax. She explained: “It is the slow, decided step and fall into gentleness, safety, and love. It is the end of the bitter, scary, passionate journey in which you come to know yourself, you question what you deserve and accept it.”

She further revealed that the song was inspired by two particular incidents in her life. “It is the slow, decided step and subsequent fall into gentleness, safety, and love,” she said. “It comes after the bitter, terrifying, passionate journey where you discover yourself, you question what you deserve, and you are finally able to accept it.”

She described the completed song as “the relief of emotional epiphany, where you find love and understanding, just not where you thought or expected.”

Her sophomore album titled “The Fatal Flaw” is coming hot on the heels of her 2024 debut album “Cacophony,” which has achieved over one billion streams. The album title comes from the opening line of Donna Tartt’s novel The Secret History. It features seascapes of J.W. Turner, writings of bell hooks, and the Pre-Raphaelite romantic style. The album cover features a red tree inspired by Ithell Colquhoun’s “Diagrams of Love,” representing the album’s journey from emotional block to overflow.

The tracklist of the album comprises songs such as “Miyazaki”, “Rothko”, “Stem the Flow”, “The Bleeding Part of Me”, “get her the fucking flowers”, “Pre Raphaelite”, “Good Girl”, “Pyrrhus (you go where I cannot)”, “Silhouette on the Hill”, “Good Boy”, “Beautiful Birds”, and “I Cry in Front of Paintings”.

Previous singles such as “Pre Raphaelite”, “Miyazaki”, “Stem The Flow”, “Good Boy”, and “Good Girl” have generated 30 million streams collectively. Her 2023 single “Labour”, a feminist anthem that earned platinum status has garnered over 1 billion streams. Singer Sofia Isella recently performed “Labour” alongside Paloma at Hinterland Music Festival.

The artiste, who is based in Brighton, England, has also performed at Lollapalooza and Osheaga this year. She is set to promote the album further via what she describes as her biggest tour yet. The tour will include The Ford Amphitheatre in Los Angeles, Brooklyn Paramount in New York, the 9:30 Club in Washington, First Avenue in Minneapolis, and the Warfield in San Francisco.

Paloma has appeared on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert”, “BBC’s Later… with Jools Holland”, and “The Kelly Clarkson Show”, and has been covered by The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, and Billboard. She has been named YouTube’s Trending Artist on the Rise, Amazon’s Breakthrough Artist to Watch, and Spotify’s EQUAL Ambassador. She also featured the song “The Rider” in the movie “The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim”.

Upcoming tour dates include:

August 13 – Budapest, HU – Sziget

August 14 – Copenhagen, DK – Syd For Solen

August 15 – Hamburg, DE – MS Dockville 

August 16 – Angus, UK – Summer’s End Angus 

August 28 – West Yorkshire, EN – Reading & Leeds Festival

August 30 – West Yorkshire, EN – Reading & Leeds Festival

September 20 – Phoenix, AZ – The Van Buren

September 22 – Los Angeles, CA – The Ford Amphitheatre

September 24 – San Francisco, CA – The Warfield

September 26 – Seattle, WA – Showbox SoDo

September 27 – Portland, OR – Roseland Theater

September 29 – Salt Lake City, UT – Rockwell at The Complex

September 30 – Denver, CO – Ogden Theatre

October 2 – Austin, TX – Austin City Limits Festival

October 4 – Dallas, TX – House of Blues

October 6 – Nashville, TN – Marathon Music Works

October 7 – Atlanta, GA – Variety Playhouse

October 9 – Austin, TX – Austin City Limits Festival

October 10 – Houston, TX – House of Blues

October 13 – Madison, WI – The Sylvee

October 14 – Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue

October 16 – Detroit, MI – Masonic Jack White Theatre

October 17 – Columbus, OH – KEMBA Live!

October 18 – Toronto, ON – Danforth Music Hall

October 20 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Paramount

October 21 – Boston, MA – Roadrunner

October 23 – Philadelphia, PA – Franklin Music Hall

October 24 – Washington, DC – 9:30 Club

November 11 – Birmingham, UK – O2 Academy

November 13 – Bristol, UK – Bristol Beacon

November 14 – Cardiff, UK – Great Hall

November 15 – Manchester, UK – O2 Apollo

November 17 – London, UK – O2 Brixton Academy

November 24 – Glasgow, UK – O2 Academy

November 25 – Dublin, IE – The National Stadium

November 27 – Paris, FR – Bataclan

November 29 – Brussels, BE – La Madeleine

November 30 – Utrecht, NL – TivoliVredenburg

December 1 – Amsterdam, NL – Paradiso

December 3 – Munich, DE – Backstage Werk

December 6 – Frankfurt, DE – Zoom

December 8 – Berlin, DE – Astra Kulturhaus

December 10 – Copenhagen, DK – Amager Bio

December 12 – Stockholm, SE – Fryshuset Arenan

December 13 – Oslo, NO – Rockefeller