143: "Royals" vs. "bad guy"
Song Vs. Song
Todd Nathanson
4.7 • 752 Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
In the 2010s, a teenage girl songwriter came out of nowhere to completely redefine cool for the decade, upend the pop landscape and inspire legions of imitators. Twice. But only one of them can reign, so which teen anthem of the decade overwhelms you more with its effortless above-it-all teenage-ness, "Royals" by Lorde or "bad guy" by Billie Eilish?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Todd Nathanson. |
| 0:03.8 | And I'm Lena Morgan. |
| 0:05.1 | And this is Song versus Song. |
| 0:07.1 | Ladies and gentlemen, with no buildup, I have to tell you, we have probably the biggest episode we've ever done just by number of votes and people having opinions on it. |
| 0:18.6 | We are doing Royals by Lord versus bad guy by Billy Eilish. |
| 0:27.7 | Once upon a time in a magical world we called the 2010s. |
| 0:32.5 | A teenage girl came the fuck out of nowhere and changed everything. |
| 0:41.9 | Twice. And then a couple years later it happened again these are our two atom bombs of of music you know it's a funny thing when we |
| 0:50.6 | started this uh when we started doing the show i don't think bad guy had come out yet |
| 0:55.2 | oh my god um we've been doing this a while because we've been doing it for like six seven years maybe |
| 1:01.7 | maybe longer actually yeah so yeah no it wasn't out yet it had not happened i mean billy isish i think |
| 1:07.0 | was doing the early billy isish stuff by the time we were recording. |
| 1:11.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:11.7 | I think. |
| 1:13.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:13.5 | Some of you are real heads who know the early stuff from Billy. |
| 1:20.1 | You know belly ache and ocean eyes and all that. |
| 1:21.7 | I did not. |
| 1:23.1 | For me, this was like the first Billy Elish song I'd ever heard. |
| 1:26.1 | You don't. |
| 1:26.5 | There's nothing. |
| 1:27.1 | I don't have anything bad to say about those songs, but there is a |
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