17-year-old, New Zealand-born pop singer Lorde made a huge splash this year with song "Royals"—and not just because it's an undeniable earworm. The Maybach- and Cristal-reviling song has been called racist by some. Complex Senior Editor Foster Kamer wrote here that the song is critical of all decadence and a recent as-told-to in Interview Magazine supports his thesis. In a section about writing her debut album, the singer reveals that she had been listening to a lot of rap music, specifically Drake and Nicki Minaj, and pop singers like Lana Del Rey, and that became completely off-putting to her:
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