We take a closer look at Kamala Harris' summer playlist: Has she posited herself as the frontrunner for DJ in Chief in 2020?
, a collection of songs she’s “listening to while traveling around country.” Said Harris, “I’m a firm believer that we all need to find the time to dance, to sing and to bop our heads a little, so I’m sharing the songs I’m listening to in the car out on the campaign trail this summer. Whether we’re driving from Sacramento to Reno or Dubuque to Chicago, this playlist always lifts me up.”If Spotify has a Progressive-Presidential-Candidate-Core algorithm, the Harris team is on it.
All these picks feel organic, part of a fun, wide-open and easygoing historical conversation where Phil Collins’ air-drum monument “In the Air” sidles up next to Fifties R&B growler LaVern Baker’s “Soul on Fire,” followed by Alice Coltrane’s spiritualist out-jazz exploration “Journey In Satchidananda” and Chance’s “Groceries,” a sweet, buoyant ode to chips, dips, Minute Maid, and other everyday pleasures.
Of course, the master of politician playlists was Barack Obama. The 44th president turned it into an art form, releasing several thoughtfully-compiled lists imbued with chill refinement and casual cross-cultural synthesis; his 2018 year-end hit list included Nashville singer-songwriter Ashley McBride, interplanetary R&B quester Janelle Monae, Cardi B’s “I Like It,” and longhaired indie rock guitar hero Kurt Vile’s “One Trick Ponies.
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