# Gal Costa — Baby

Gal Costa’s Baby (1968) appears on 2 of our lists — Tropicália and Sung to Someone, highest at No. 5 in Tropicália. Every verdict, in full.

- **Released:** 1968
- **Label:** Philips
- **On:** Tropicália and Sung to Someone
- **Updated:** 2026-08-31
- **Artist:** [Gal Costa](https://waxonia.com/artist/gal-costa/)
- **Canonical page:** https://waxonia.com/track/gal-costa--baby/

## What 2 lists say

### No. 5 in [Tropicália](https://waxonia.com/genre/tropicalia/)

Caetano's lyric is a list of consumer instructions — learn English, drink Coca-Cola — sung with total sincerity. Satire and love song at once, and Costa refuses to tell you which.

### Picked by [Sung to Someone](https://waxonia.com/theme/sung-to-someone/)

Caetano Veloso wrote it as a list of things you need to learn — the swimming pool, the margarine, me. Gal Costa sings them to one person in the year Brazil's dictatorship closed its fist. Addressed to a lover, and every word of it is also addressed past them.

## Listen

[Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Gal%20Costa%20Baby) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=b7d6wnaRm2E)

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