Thrift Shop

He wants like $200.

How many times is he going to sing Thrift Shop? He's got the one song.

Ed Sheeran's mistake.

Was ever apologizing.

Yeah,

and I will mention again an article from Reason Magazine from 2014 that I always come back to, and it's about Lorde's song Royals and Macklemore's song Thrift Shop, unrelated to the current Macklemore.

I was about

to say, we canceled Macklemore, though, I think.

I'm very confused about that whole situation.

But

it's about the longstanding... sort of leftist tradition to sing or or make art about how the luxury life is not for you and then using that as a stepping stone to luxury life right oh my song about how you shouldn't be rich made me rich yeah but you still shouldn't you still shouldn't want to be rich yeah Yeah, Lorde will still go up on stage and sing Royals with her like now that she's worth millions.

You know what I mean? Like, again, I'm not beating up on her.

So Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, they spawned gigantic singles that we're going to be talking about here today on Hey Listen to This.

Can't Hold Us and Thrift Shop.

And Thrift Shop itself, the video has been viewed more than a billion times on YouTube.

But honestly, for those of you who, if that's your knowledge of who Macklemore is...

Well, there's so much more to him than just a radio hit and a novelty song.

Realizing we were going to talk about this album made me a little bit nostalgic because when I think of this album, I think of senior year at Geneva College because that's about the time that this album was really becoming popular.

And...

It was interesting to see songs like Thrift Shop, like Can't Hold Us, reach max appeal to the point of like, oh, well, this is different.

holy grail remember he did wait wait wait you're telling me that michael moore apologized for winning the rap grammy 16 years ago

yes then then yeah not now he hasn't apologized now no no no then then then yeah yeah it's even rumored that he actually texted kendrick it's from what he did years ago it was then think about it in the moment when he won the yeah think about it in the moment no we're just remembering we're just remembering no no it's different enough for me 16 years ago he apologized bro you guys they stole it was the numbers thing that they were talking about but picture all those big albums good kid mad city nothing was the same magna cata holy grail and then there's mark lemo that album had um um thrift shop thrift shop and uh this this other song two two major bangers

it was still same love

yeah can't hold us yes now imagine that up against every other song in good kid much i don't believe you

years ago.

Yeah.

So now that we're on that, right? Are we done with that? Yeah, he won Best Rap Album for the highest, Best Rap Performance for Thrift Shop and Best Rap Song for Thrift Shop.

Wow.

I think it was Michael Morris, uh, song.

Okay, before we get into it, Holly, I wanted to give a brief history and an explanation of who these people are because people like my mom are listening to this podcast and they don't know who these people are, okay? So Ed Sheeran is an English singer, songwriter, right? He wrote the songs, Shape of You, Thinking Out Loud.

That is one of my favorites.

I love the shape of you.

Yes.

He has another song called Thinking Out Loud, Perfect and Bad Habits.

Do you know those other songs? I know Shape of You.

know

What was the context?

That he would, like, hide in the crowd, and, like, kind of come up to the stage, and no one knew who it was, and then he would sing Thrift Shop.

[laughs]

What? What? What? [laughs] That's how Thrift Shop starts.

[laughs] It's like-

Boom, badooo, boom.