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San Francisco radio bans Lorde's "Royals" throughout the World Series
by Tyler Munro
October 20, 2014
It’s been one hell of a year for the Kansas City Royals. After squeaking into the playoffs with an exciting wildcard win over the Oakland Athletics, Lorde’s favourite baseball team has been on an electrifying, dominant run through the pennant. But while baseball fans from Toronto to Korea are embracing their urge to be Royals, the team’s World Series opponents aren’t having it.
According to Yahoo, San Francisco radio stations have vowed not to play the 17-year-old singer’s smash hit through the end of the baseball finals.
On Facebook, KFOG Radio declared itself a “Royals free-zone,” writing that they’re sure the star would understand.
But that’s where things get fun. After hearing its San Francisco sister station, 96.5 The Koit, would also get in on the ban, Kansas City’s “The Point” has vowed to overplay “Royals,” writing in a press release that they’ll play the song “on the hour, every hour, from 7:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m. on opening night of the World Series,” which starts tomorrow night.
“We won’t let their anti-Royals spirit ruin this moment,” said program director Tony Lorino. “A few angry San Franciscans who don’t have a song called “Giants” won’t rain on our parade.”
While the song seems to have a tangential relationship at best with baseball, Lorde has admitted on many occasions that she did draw inspiration from the team, explaining that she wrote it after seeing a photo of third baseman George Brett signing baseballs way back when.
Earlier this year, right as the baseball season was kicking into gear, she finally met him:
The Kansas City Royals are hoping to cap off a storybook season with a World Series win against the San Francisco Giants, fellow underdogs who pushed past the wildcard to the pennant but aren’t on a storybook run capping off their first playoff appearance in 26 years.
