Michelle Zauner for Rolling Stone:
Savage Good Boy came from a headline I read about billionaires buying bunkers. I was interested in examining that specific type of villainy, and I found myself adopting the perspective of a rich man coaxing a young woman to come live with him underground, attempti...
[Intro]
I want to be your man
I want to be your s-
[Verse 1]
I want to be your man
I want to be your savage good boy
I want to take care of you
[Verse 2]
When everybody's gone
Want you to be the one that I come home to
The one that's up waiting
[Chorus 1]
I want to make the money 'til there's no more to be made
And we will be so wealthy, I'm absolved from questioning
That all my bad behavior was just a necessary strain
They're the stakes in the race to win
[Verse 3]
I've got a five year plan
I've got a pension and six condos
A billion-dollar bunker for two
[Verse 4]
And when the city's underwater
I will wine and dine you in the hollows
On a surplus of freeze-dried food
[Chorus 2]
I want to make the money 'til there's no more to be made
And as the last ones standing, we'll be tasked to repopulate
And as you rear our children, know it's the necessary strain
They're the stakes in a race to live
Savage Good Boy was written by Michelle Zauner.
Savage Good Boy was produced by Alex G & Michelle Zauner.
Japanese Breakfast released Savage Good Boy on Wed May 19 2021.
In the live Q&A before the video, Zauner said:
[The Sopranos] shows, you know, like, the way that we as human beings can rationalize bad behavior in order to survive or be this incredibly multidimensional characters. And it’s a very different type of villain that I explore in this song. So, thi...
This one was co-produced by Alex G, who is one of my favourite musicians of all time, and was inspired by a headline I’d read about billionaires buying bunkers. I wanted to write it from the perspective of a billionaire who’d bought one, and who was coaxing a woman to come live with him as the world...