The Meaning Of Lorde’s “Royals” Has Been Revealed, We Can All Sleep Easy

The elusive New Zealand darling that is Lorde has decided to open up about her inspiration. Well, she opened up a little — in a recent interview with VH1, Lorde explained the spark behind her chart-dominating single, "Royals."

The song in question, an ode to the Millennial fetishization of the "good life," was reportedly inspired by a National Geographic picture of the Kansas City Royals baseball team. "I'd been kind of thinking about writing that song for a while and been pulling together a couple little lines here and there, and I had this image from the National Geographic of this dude signing baseballs," Lorde explained to VH1. "He was a baseball player and his shirt said Royals. I was like, I really like that word, because I'm a big word fetishist. I'll pick a word and I'll pin an idea to that."

So, there's that. The song that has faced ridicule for cultural appropriation and privilege was sparked by the Show-Me State. In other news, "Royals" is still one of the the top three tracks on iTunes. Kansas, you did this 17-year-old good. (Oh No They Didn't)