If you ask me, it is a great song. As I like to say, do not let the amount of times you've heard a song diminish your opinion on the quality of it. In other words, just because you're hearing a song often does not mean that eventually it will start to suck. Yes, you'll grow to hate it but that's because of your perception of the song itself.
Anyways, I digress.
"Royals" won Song of the Year because of great performance on the song, interesting production (those were some eerily haunting harmonies, yo) and, of course, great song writing. The song is about something real, not some lofty facade of opulence most listeners can only dream of. Finally, here is a song talking about the glorification of reality and the distaste for the high life.
Lorde is "not about that life."
*slaps knee repeatedly*
But have you heard Rick Ross's verse he added to it? If you haven't, read this:
"Silver Rolls Royce cigarette smokes in it
New fur rug now my dirty boots in em
Flowin' in the pocket like I'm enrollin' in a college
Mean as a dean, triple beam well polished
She wanna watch Scandal, I wanna count a handful
Dead Presidents sleep in the attic of the mansion
All I heard was murder, think the house haunted
Super Bowl tickets they bitches and and Fed chargers
Label the racketeer, John Gresham with a pen
Top three writer but number one at your event
Mastermind unfolds like a true crime
Double M gold mind for the whole time"
New fur rug now my dirty boots in em
Flowin' in the pocket like I'm enrollin' in a college
Mean as a dean, triple beam well polished
She wanna watch Scandal, I wanna count a handful
Dead Presidents sleep in the attic of the mansion
All I heard was murder, think the house haunted
Super Bowl tickets they bitches and and Fed chargers
Label the racketeer, John Gresham with a pen
Top three writer but number one at your event
Mastermind unfolds like a true crime
Double M gold mind for the whole time"
What is going on? How clueless is Rick Ross?
Now, I'm not one to assume intelligence... but COME ON RICK ROSS. You literally took everything the Lorde was expressing disdain for and proceeded to rap about it. Moreover, the content of just about every verse Rick Ross has ever written is literally what Lorde is against.
Don't you get it, Rick Ross? LORDE HATES YOU!
Maybe not as a person, but certainly for everything you stand for: overindulgence, materialism and general douchbaggery.
OK, I know I'm pointing out the obvious. Everyone who's heard this remix knows exactly what I'm talking about. Honestly, I'm just indulging myself by writing this. I just have to complain!
There are always great acts coming up in the music industry. Unfortunately, there are certain cancers impeding their progress having the limelight wasted on them. One of them is Rick Ross.
Rick Ross: you are a cancer to our industry and you should stop.
Other glaring terrible acts: Ke$ha for making "Timber", Pitbull for finding Ke$ha for "Timber" and also participating in that terrible song, Drake for being Drake, EDM for dumbing down everyone's musical sense and Lil' Wayne for dumbing down everyone's IQ. And Wacklemore for selling out. At least now you're rich, bro.
