Hip Hop Radio Stations playing that song "Royals"

[ManBearPig]

The one with Ross gets play

 

[Easy-E]

It's a great song lyrically and a breath of fresh air, to bad rock Ross fat ass jumped on the remix and rapped about the exact opposite of what the song is about

Its pretty much a song dissing every other song that comes on urban radio

Lol the funny thing is that she's shytting on all the hiphop they are playing

Sounds like you just described the standard radio rap song.



you know we odn't listen to music. we just respond to the beats and the words they got us programmed to respond to.

I'm guilty

I actually justed played the song...now, I feel it...

I hear it, on radio, last weekend, and all I hear was the:

Gold teeth
Grey Goose
Tripping in the bathroom
Bloodstains
Ball gowns
Trashing the hotel room

part, and thought it was just another "trippy" pop song about gettin' high and partying your self into a stupor

Now I understand the concept

 

[rantanamo]

its a good sounding song. Its been on pop radio for a while. Just started on the "urban" stations when the remix came out. But its kind of a neat sound, and the message is pretty cool.

 

[SunZoo]

people still listen to radio..?

That shyt amazes me...who in their right mind would subject themselves to that shyt? Seems like the only time nikkas listen to FM radio is to hear some shyt that they don't like or want to complain about.

 

[ML29]

I ain't fukked with the radio since the iPod came out.

 

[The Real]

That song is entirely overrated, but she threw some hip-hop production behind a catchy pop-tune with a basic critique and there you go.

Can you link to the post you mentioned in your message where you go into detail about the song?

 

[No1]

Can you link to the post you mentioned in your message where you go into detail about the song?

I don't even remember now. I think it was well before I changed my name and it was better-worded then. But I can repeat it.

Basically, the song has a generic hip hop beat and makes some overall very basic critiques about not relating to what's on the radio but the lyrics themselves don't show much depth or creativity. It's that song that comes out once or twice a year that is the "opposite" of everything on the radio and gets hyped up. Yet, the song itself is actually constructed just like all the songs it criticizes on the radio except for the subject matter. It has the annoyingly catchy hook, the vague and speciously deep lyrics that individuals can attach whatever layer they want to them, and the generic hip hop beat. I find it no deeper than Lil Wayne's "Mirrors" song. There is literally nothing impressive about this song besides the fact that it is criticizing the rest of what's on the radio.

Yet, this 16-year old girl is also a big time fan of Nicki Minaj and Kanye West and other artists on the radio. She speaks to a very respectful and justified visceral reaction to seeing the same thing over and over on television, and how women are projected (in some interview I caught of her), but it's clear that she lacks the sophistication to discuss these issues with any real depth nor is she engaging people to really think outside of the box. I think people are just going "YES" because of what she's talking about and because the song is a catchy pop record. Artists do the same thing every year and do not catch on because their records are not pop enough. She is benefiting from the same formula and consumers who idolize the culture she is speaking down upon. I mean, Selena Gomez was performing this song at her concerts with everyone singing along until this girl Lorde specifically went and said she thought Gomez was part of the problem. This isn't Kanye West's "All Falls Down" or Lupe Fiasco's "The Instrumental." It is pop-hip hop hybrid record tailor-made for the radio. To me breathe of fresh air is something that is different both conceptually and artistically. This song does neither. Replace the "grey goose, etc.," with something about family and changed the "royals" part to "spoiled" or something and it would chart nearly just as well. I am unimpressed.

 

[Piff Perkins]

gotta love rappers remixing it and missing the point. That shyt is about throwing consumerism into the bushes and just being yourself, a message you almost never hear on urban radio these days...

 

[phillycavsfan]

she's basically shytting on rap culture in the song.

Not really. It's not just hip-hop that's obsessed with materialism.

 

[phillycavsfan]

gotta love rappers remixing it and missing the point. That shyt is about throwing consumerism into the bushes and just being yourself, a message you almost never hear on urban radio these days...

Thrift Shop talked about the same thing. I'm surprised we don't hear more songs like this considering how much the economy sucked over the last few years.

 

[Buckeye Fever]

This my shyt

 

[Buckeye Fever]

Give me this and Paper Planes by M.I.A. and I will be like

 

[The_King_of_Everything]

She's trash and she's ugly as fukk looks like she smells like sour spit residue

 

[Piff Perkins]

Thrift Shop talked about the same thing. I'm surprised we don't hear more songs like this considering how much the economy sucked over the last few years.

I remember when Watch The Throne came out and some people were complaining about how ridiculous it was, given the economy. It struck me as a dumb argument, but even then I believed there was a big lane for "middle class" rap/pop. Macklemore really caked off that shyt, really impressive.

I really think that's the next pop rap lane. All this bling/flossing/maybach/molly/etc rap is getting tiring to many people, and I think execs are starting to realize a white face can easily sell that stuff to the masses.

 

[Spoonz]

it's a decent song/catchy but it's not like she went hard dissing rappers and materialistic people. So I don't see why people are so impressed.