Goldie Boutilier

One Liner:  Shape shifting gal seeking out the winning formula in a pop-influenced alt country

Wikipedia Genre:  Alt County, Pop, Rock, Disco (quite a list there)
Home: Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada

Poster Position: 18
Both Weekends.
Saturday at 1:05.

Tito's Tent.

Thoughts:  I was curious to search for this one.  That name could have been a very wide range of outcomes for what I was about to hear.  In the end, it is a kind of semi-country indie pop sound.  Real name is Kristin Kathleen Boutilier, and she is a Canadian singer, model, and DJ.  She moved to L.A. at 20 years old to pursue music, where she was discovered by Ryan Tedder who was part of OneRepublic.  The next chapters of her life are weird because of the shapeshifting she did.

She originally went by My Name is Kay, and back then she was very much a pop thing (and not a very good pop thing, you can still hear it on Spotify and it is trying sooooo hard).  Although she did get both Kurtis Blow and Pusha T to show up on different tracks, which is interesting.  The Pusha track is super dumb - she does her crappy pop thing for 3/4 of it and then he just tosses off a generic verse.  101k for the top streamer from this persona.

According to Wikipedia, she was fighting to get out of her label contract at this time and had to wait tables to get by and pay legal fees.  At the end, Interscope let her get out of the contract, but she was barred from using the name "Kay" anymore.  Which is so weird.  Is Interscope going to release a new artist with that jenky ass name?

Next, she was a DJ in Paris under the name Goldilox.  Her second album was released under that moniker and doesn't seem to have gone anywhere.  The top track has 3.6 million streams and is called "Sex Paranoia."  Not good.

But with this new iteration of herself, she is aiming more for slightly poppy alt country stylings and a concentration on her voice instead of slick production.  Gone is the bad pop and bubblegum image, as well as the electronic beats and sexy image, now we are down to a pretty curly haired gal in a dress.  13 total songs on Spotify, and the top one is from the 2022 EP, the title song of Cowboy Gangster Politician.  5.9 million streams.

Has a Fleetwood Mac feel to the vocals to me.  Pretty little ditty.  "Pretending" makes me think of Miley Cyrus singing like Margo Price.  "The Actress" makes me think of Neko Case, but a little breathier.  In addition to the music, she has been featured in several modeling campaigns and also modeled nude for the French edition of Playboy.

She claims this version of herself was inspired from digging through her parents records, which I like.  I would love for my kids to discover the great music lurking around in my old stuff.  After that initial EP, she released another in 2023, called Emerald Year.  Not any big track from there, but the top streamer is "Penthouse in the Sky" with 564k streams.

All I seem to be able to do with this one is compare her to other things - this one has a Lana Del Rey meets Daft Punk vibe.  Meh.  None of this is either great or terrible, it just kind of bops along in the middle.  I've listened all day and nothing has really grabbed my attention.  Probably wouldn't bother with it.