Taking what’s clearly a dark and despondent emotion and turning it into something enjoyable and lively, Stellan Perrick’s ‘Golden Baby’ is a dance tune in sound but its content and theme is not really something to groove out to. Effectively, Perrick’s song has resentment loaded all over it. Of course, it’s not an unjustified resentment by any means though. He lambasts the unfairness of the world, the seemingly random privileges we’re born into or thrown away from.
“I thought if you are lucky, you are a ‘golden baby’ and that’s the only way you can be born into all those things you wish for.”
But the more and more you listen to it, Golden Baby is an empowering song at the end of the day. It’s about shedding resentment, letting go of that nagging feeling that the world is stacked against you and that god has treated you singularly unfairly while blessing a select few. It’s a message of love to those who feel that same anger and sadness, that loneliness and isolation. You are a ‘golden baby’ too, and you might as well enjoy the ride while it lasts.