Poll: Barack Obama's Favorite Songs of 2020

Write-in for 'WAP'.

^Would've been a week-long controversy on Fox News

Not the Waxahatchee, Dylan or Dua Lipa songs I'll have on my year-end ballot, but "Can't Do Much."

does he use focus groups to compile these things? it’s like a curated playlist for the “hip suburban dad who’s still got it” demographic

WAP might risk alienating the moderates

shout out to Paak/Ross, good song

does he use focus groups to compile these things? it’s like a curated playlist for the “hip suburban dad who’s still got it” demographic

Nada for me

sometimes the obvious answer is the correct one.

savage remix.

Nada, followed by Uwrongo and Savage (Remix).

Oh yeah and “Remember Where You Are”.

Oh yeah and “Remember Where You Are”.

i hate that this is a more agreeable list than most publications had

It’s definitely one of the more ILM-aligned lists I’ve seen. Show yourself, Sasha.

Morbz sorely missing on this thread

warcriminal mixtape

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, January 2, 2019 10:13 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

*Jeff Foxworthy voice*

"When an EX president of the United States knows more about new music than you do...you might be old"

is he saying he heard some of these songs thru sasha or that he asked her what songs to add onto a list of his own supposed personal faves? at least he's acknowledging that he doesn't organically encounter all the songs he includes on these lists, i guess that's progress

and yeah it's an 'agreeable' list like all his others and surely that's why he keeps putting them out but that's also exactly why they're so dull and groan-inducing

He talked a bit about the process in an interview about his book:

This playlist you put out to accompany the book, it’s kind of old school. You’ve got Bruce and you’ve got Aretha Franklin and Miles Davis. Not, like, DaBaby. Did you consult Sasha and Malia on this playlist? Or was this all you?

No, this one was the list of music that is featured in the book. So, you know, I write about Paul McCartney singing “Michelle” to Michelle. That’s in there. Or U2’s “Beautiful Day” is what we played during the campaign after I finished speaking at a rally. My year-end playlists, those are the fresh cuts. There, I will confess that I do consult with Malia and Sasha throughout the year. I’m constantly listening to their music, sometimes by request, and sometimes just because that’s what’s blaring in our house. So, you know, I pick up on some trends. Sasha is more protective of her music. There’s certain things on SoundCloud. She has like a private playlist. She won’t share all of them with me, because she’s not sure I’m hip enough. But nah man, I’m keeping up for an old guy.

Jason Goldman [Obama’s former White House chief digital officer] told me about the time you did your first Spotify playlist off the top of your head. I thought that was impressive. It sounded legit at least.

No. It was legit. I was still president then, and I think he wisely commented that maybe we shouldn’t have “O.P.P.” (Naughty by Nature) in there as a song. I think that one didn’t make the vet.

it’s nice that he shares music with his daughters

pleasantly shocked to see Ruston Kelly on this list

So this is damage control for that other list, huh

YSI?

Paul McCartney singing “Michelle” to Michelle

Christ

sont les war crimes that go together

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— severian 100 🎄 (@poaststructural) December 20, 2020

where's TheDonald's one? is there another thread where ILM makes one up?

I don’t really know* why you guys are adamant on pretending Obama is a White suburban dad and not someone who quoted “Dirt Off Your Shoulders” in the middle of a speech while he was President but keep up the blistering caucasity

*that’s a lie

would it have been more or less racist to explicitly identify him as a Black suburban dad

For me it's between Nada and Kyoto, went with Kyoto.

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I find this result quite disheartening as it relates to ILM's year end poll