NYC Mayor-Elect Bill de Blasio Celebrates Win With Lorde's 'Royals' (Video)

Bill de Blasio and the Politics of Lorde?s ?Royals? ? Flavorwire

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New York City mayor-elect Bill De Blasio used "Royals" as his victory song after winning the New York City mayor election. The song ties in with his message about "a tale of two cities," referring to the wealthy few and the struggling majority. The current outgoing mayor, Michael Bloomberg, is one of those rich businessmen, and although he did do a good job as the mayor of New York City, De Blasio seems to be a critic, because Bloomberg hailed from the wealthy few.

"Royals" is a song about rejecting the greedy and lavish, extravagant possessions that many wealthy people possess, and want more of, and De Blasio rejects those kinds of things, so it made sense for him to pick this song as his victory song.

He is married to an African-American woman and has two biracial children with her.