For the next week or so, San Francisco residents who want to hear "Royals" by Lorde for the 1,450th time will have listen to it somewhere else other than the radio because there is finally … finally a moratorium on playing its cacophonous melody on the radio.

For the next week or so, San Francisco residents who want to hear "Royals" by Lorde for the 1,450th time will have listen to it somewhere else other than the radio because there is finally … finally a moratorium on playing its cacophonous melody on the radio. 

You guys can come out of your missile silos now. Step out into the the Lorde-free light.

The city imposed the thoroughly relaxing and uplifting ban due to the fact that the San Francisco Giants will by playing the Kansas City Royals in the upcoming World Series. And if no one wanted to hear "Royals" for the 56th time today before the ban, that little baseball rivalry is sure help out with the impetus for Royal-gate. Yeah, we're calling it that.

Everyone knows that "Royals"makes up 99% of available radio wave space, so it'll be interesting to see whether radio DJs can revert back to a time when there was no "Royals" and compile a playlist of non-Lorde, or if they crash and burn and just hit the repeat button on "Turn Up For What?" by Lil' Jon and DJ Snake like so many are known to do.

However, not all radio stations are respecting the laws of Royal-gate. Some stations in Kansas are retaliating to the ban by playing the dastardly tune every hour, on the hour like a hypnotic siren song of sports fandom, luring its victims into sports bars and places with wings to consecrate their total dedication to their local baseball team.

We're not saying "Royals" didn't once deserve that kind of air time. But at this point, when our ears have become so oversaturated by the song that we're remixing it with "Margaritaville" in our heads, maybe it's time "Royals" takes a breather on the sidelines like George Brett, or hell, even Kobe. The thing grows on your like a parasitic twin that gets more Instagram likes than you.

It's a good thing the Rockies didn't make it into the World Series though; we're pretty sure they'd be playing Rocky IV and "Rocky Mountain High" while doling out Rocky Mountain oysters to everyone within 5,280 feet.