It is always amazing when very young people wrote music and lyrics because you need to have experienced life to do that. Kate Nash is 22 and she has already written two albums! At 22 I was still a baby, so her maturity is very impressive.
‘Paris’ is the first track of her new album ‘My Best Friend Is You’ which was released this year. The song is like a tourbillion with a voluble rhythm and an effusive delivery of the lyrics, whereas her clear tone of voice leads to an unavoidable comparison to Lily Allen.
The only connection I see with the title is this line: ‘You can lead me through the streets/Pave the way, so we can dream dreams,’ since a lot of old streets in Paris are covered by a pavement made of cobblestones. But Kate said in an interview that she wrote the song when on holiday in Paris, and so no other explanation is needed.
When you listen to the song, you can almost see her running through the streets of her memory, thinking about the beginning of a new love (or is it a new friendship?) and the potential that it offers. It’s this excitement you have when you know that you share with someone something unique and secret that nobody else in the world can understand.
Although the chorus repeats many times ‘You’ll never listen to me,’ the song tempo totally translates how a new thing in your life, whatever it is, can completely empower you