Malana VanTyler
Goldie Boutilier’s most ambitious project to date, “Goldie Boutilier Presents… Goldie Montana,” creates a cinematic world of crime, glamour, and redemption, drawing inspiration from classics like Scarface and Casino.
The Canadian artist turns her hardest life experiences into raw and personal music, channeling “Goldie Montana,” an alter ego that fuses vulnerability with strength to capture what it means not just to survive, but to rise in the music industry. Building on the foundations of her previous EPs, “Cowboy Gangster Politician,” “Emerald Year,” and “The Actress,” this work opens a new chapter of transformation.
Mixing 1970s glam rock, 1980s synth-pop, sweeping ballads, and shades of dark psychedelia, Goldie shapes a sound as striking for its production as for its storytelling. The project finds her collaborating with Simon Wilcox, Max Baby, and Thomas “Tawgs” Salter and featuring a roster of notable guest musicians, among them Strokes guitarist Albert Hammond Jr.
Tracks like “King of Possibilities,” featured in the Netflix series The Hunting Wives, highlight her gift for cinematic pop. “Favorite Fear,” fueled by vengeance and fiery energy, shows the range of her approach. They sit alongside gems such as “Neon Nuptials” and “I Am The Rich Man,” a defiant anthem of empowerment inspired by Cher. The album also includes “I Can’t” and the title track “Goldie Montana,” both adding to its raw, fearless narrative.
The album is born from a story marked by adversity. After being sidelined in the industry and surviving years of excess while working as an escort in Los Angeles, Goldie turned to film and music as a way to reinvent herself. From there came Goldie Montana, the character who now lets her sing with unshakable confidence about transactions, loss, and resilience, free of fear or shame.
Caught in a haze of decadence and darkness, Goldie turned to her cinematic anti-heroes for strength. “Movies like Scarface and Casino helped me create the character I became when I was escorting: a femme fatale who uses her femininity to claw her way to the top of a corrupt world,” she says. “Instead of waiting for someone to come along and save me, I became that character to save myself.”
One of the album’s standout moments is “I Am The Rich Man,” a dark and seductive anthem inspired by Cher’s iconic phrase, “Mom, I am a rich man.” About this song, Goldie remembers, “I remember encountering all these wealthy men and thinking, ‘I’m smarter than you, I’m more empathetic than you, I could do what you do and do it so much better.’ For me, ‘I Am The Rich Man’ is a form of manifestation—it’s speaking my future into existence, but doing it with a bit of a wink.”
“’Goldie Montana’ is me stepping into my alter ego. The untouchable, glamorous outlaw version of myself. It’s inspired by the danger and decadence of characters like Tony Montana, but instead of living in someone else’s story, I’m writing my own. This song is about survival and power, but also about femininity and allure. It’s cinematic, it’s dangerous. It’s about being the main character in a world that usually writes women off as accessories to men’s stories. In this one, I’m the boss.”
The production delivers a lush sound that amplifies the drama in every track. On stage, this intensity only grows stronger: her tour through North America and Europe has included Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, and Austin City Limits, capped by a sold-out show at Los Angeles’ legendary Troubadour.
“Goldie Boutilier Presents… Goldie Montana” is more than anything a direct message: shame can become strength, pain can turn into beauty, and the past can be reshaped into fuel for an indestructible future.
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