With "I Hate Paris," Arya Phenyx channels a tidal wave of raw emotion into a soul-piercing electropop ballad that is cinematic and heartbreaking. This track is a scene, a story, and a scream into the night from someone who has been burned by love and isn't afraid to admit it.
Out as the lead single in advance of her highly anticipated debut album, "SHMLSS (In Too Deep)," which will be released by April 25, 2025, "I Hate Paris" is Arya at her very most fearless. She takes a city that so frequently gets romanticized, a reckless playground of idealistic fun and fancy, and turns it upside down, using it as a setting for heartache, betrayal, and the echoes of someone she once trusted. It's Paris but tinted in black-and-white and neon tears.
A tension simmers just below the surface from the opening beat. The production is smooth but shadowy and atmospheric, drawing listeners into a display of resonances that feels intimate and epic. The synths whisper and swell like memories you can't outrun, and Arya's voice cuts through it with clarity. Every lyric and note is deliberate.
Arya Phenyx is constructing her universe, and "I Hate Paris" sounds like one of its shadowy, loveliest corners. It's a song built for contemplation, solo car trips, or when you need something to feel with you. Arya Phenyx is a name in genre-pushing, emotionally devastating pop music. "I Hate Paris" isn't shy about being dramatic, chaotic, and painfully honest, which makes it work.
With "SHMLSS (In Too Deep)" coming next year, this single is an audacious opening statement as Arya is here to say what others won't feel, what others fake, and give heartbreak a voice that sounds like it's been through it.
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Reviewed by LyricalOdyssey Music
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April 14, 2025
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