Royals Style Punk - Puddles Pity Party
3:06
3:06
single, 2020
Written by Lorde and Joel Little, 2013
It's Cover Time!
Backed by a fairly basic rock band, Puddles tears through "Royals" in what is very much not a punk style (except maybe the exuberant drums), but certainly as an uptempo bar rocker. Puddles' mellifluous, operatic voice is of course one of the most expressive instruments in music today, but here he rushes, and doesn't give himself a chance to really belt. He also has released versions of this song straight, and in a reggae version, but this one scratches an itch I have for faster songs, and it's a testament to how brilliant the original is that all his versions work.