The music video for Tarrus Riley’s 2006 hit She’s Royal crossed 100 million views on YouTube on Wednesday (July 19).
The visuals, which featured Riley serenading his Caribbean Queen, were directed by Rupert Campbell and Richard Delapenha.
The song was produced by legendary saxophonist Dean Fraser for Riley’s Parables album on VP Records.
She’s Royal is Riley’s most streamed song on Spotify, currently at 33 million plays. It is followed by Superman, at 20 million plays, and Lighter with Shenseea, at 17 million plays.
Powerful, his collab with Major Lazer and Ellie Goulding, has over 280 million plays on Spotify.
In an interview, he disclosed that the song was a “reality song.”
“I wrote the song just to let women feel nice,” he told unitedreggae.com. “Because… we must talk ‘bout slavery [and] a lot of conditioning from slavery still resonates today and the women still lack self-esteem. They need some music to make them feel good so I thought ‘Let me sing a song to big up the girls and say she’s a queen and she’s royal.”
