thrift shop

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thrift shop
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis feat. Wanz
publication August 28, 2012
length 3:55
Genre (s) Alternative hip hop
text Macklemore
music Macklemore, Ryan Lewis
Publisher (s) Self-published
Label Macklemore LLC
Award (s) Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance ,
Grammy Award for Best Rap Song ( 2014 )
album The Heist

Thrift Shop (German thrift store ) is a song of the American hip-hop duos Macklemore & Ryan Lewis and Wanz . The title is featured on Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' debut album The Heist and was first released on August 1, 2012. After Lisa Loeb's Stay (I Missed You) from 1994, it is only the second number-one hit in the United States to be self-published. It is also the first independent song to top the Billboard Digital Charts since We Are the World 25 for Haiti .

text

In the text, Macklemore explains that he only buys clothes from second-hand shops and criticizes today's rap scene, which is often about how rich you are, what you have and how much money you spend. He shows this in the text, among other things, by saying that he only wears certain things because they only cost 99 cents. He made a statement about the lyrics to MTV News:

“Rappers talk about, oh I buy this and I buy that, and I spend this much money and I make it rain, and this type of champagne and painting the club, and this is the kind of record that's the exact opposite. It's the polar opposite of it. It's kind of standing for like let's save some money, let's keep some money away, let's spend as little as possible and look as fresh as possible at the same time. "

"Rappers say things like," Oh, I buy this and that, I spend a lot and I make the money rain, "and about that particular kind of champagne and how they go about the club, and this song is the opposite. He is the exact opposite of this. It roughly stands for "Let's save some money, let's keep some of the money, spend as little as possible and look as good as possible while doing it". "

Music video

The official music video was first released on Ryan Lewis' YouTube channel on August 29, 2012 , where it had over 444 million views by October 2013 and over 510 million views by March 2014. At the beginning, Ryan Lewis drives a DeLorean DMC-12 to a nightclub and Macklemore raps about being admired for his cheap clothes. Later in the video you can see him in a thrift shop while he buys a broken keyboard and other cheap goods, among other things. From the penultimate chorus you can see Wanz in the club, at the end a second-hand shop is shown again. The clip ends with a girl who asks “Is that your grandma's coat?” And laughs. The music video was shot by Macklemore, Ryan Lewis and Jon Jon Augustavo.

reception

Charts and awards for record sales

The song became a worldwide surprise hit, reaching number one in the charts in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States. In Austria and Germany the single rose to number two. In Australia, Thrift Shop placed ninth in the 2012 annual charts. There the single was awarded 6 × platinum for 420,000 units sold. In New Zealand it also got 3 × platinum for 45,000 sales and in Denmark gold for 15,000.

criticism

Thrift Shop received consistently good reviews. Robert Copsey of Digital Spy praised the song's humor and described it as "a song that few are: original, musically daring and really funny". He awarded five stars out of five. NJ's Tris McCall named the track Song of the Week on January 4, 2013 . The title is a strong criticism of the rap scene, but the humor of the song makes it much more bearable. Macklemore also comes across as a "grouchy purist", which he is not at all.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thrift Shop (feat. Wanz) - single. In: iTunes . Apple Inc., August 1, 2012, accessed February 12, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Nolan Feeney: Macklemore's 'Thrift Shop' Is First Indie Hit to Top Charts in Nearly Two Decades. Time, January 25, 2013, accessed February 12, 2013 .
  3. ^ A b Thrift Shop by Macklemore / Ryan Lewis. In: Songfacts. ToneMedia, accessed February 12, 2013 .
  4. ^ Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' "Thrift Shop" is Doing Incredible Well on the Billboard Charts ... (No longer available online.) Thehiphopupdate.com, January 17, 2013, archived from the original on March 30, 2013 ; accessed on February 12, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / thehiphopupdate.com
  5. ↑ Natasha Chandel: Macklemore 'Pops Some Tags' While Thrift Shopping. MTV News, December 21, 2012, accessed February 12, 2013 .
  6. ↑ Ryan Lewis: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Thrift Shop Feat. Wanz (Official Video). YouTube , August 29, 2012, accessed February 12, 2013 .
  7. ^ Thrift Shop. tape.tv , accessed February 12, 2013 .
  8. ↑ Chart sources: Australia , Canada , Denmark , Finland , France , New Zealand , Norway , United Kingdom , United States , Austria , Germany , Switzerland .
  9. ↑ Annual chart sources: Australia .
  10. ↑ Sources for Record Sales Awards: Australia , New Zealand , Denmark
  11. ^ Robert Copsey: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis ft. Wanz: 'Thrift Shop' - Single review. In: Digital Spy . Hearst Magazines UK, accessed February 12, 2013 .
  12. ^ Tris McCall: Song of the Week: 'Thrift Shop', Macklemore and Ryan Lewis. NJ, January 4, 2013, accessed February 12, 2013 .

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