SZA, Rosalia, Dangerous Bunny and extra make taste-making former president’s year-end playlist
Persevering with an annual custom that dates again to his presidency, Barack Obama shared his private playlist of the most effective songs of the 12 months, with tracks by Kendrick Lamar, Beyoncé, Lizzo, SZA, Rosalia and extra making the previous president’s must-hear checklist of 2022.
“I at all times take pleasure in sharing my finish of 12 months music playlist with all of you — and this 12 months we heard quite a lot of nice songs,” Obama tweeted Friday. “Listed below are a few of my favorites.”
As common, Obama’s playlists touches on many genres of music, from Afrobeats (Burna Boy’s “Final Final,” Arya Starr’s “Rush”) and reggae (Koffee’s “Pull Up”) to indie pop (Maggie Rogers’ “That’s The place I Am”) to indie folks (Ethel Cain’s “American Teenager”) to hip-hop (Kendrick Lamar’s “The Coronary heart Pt. 5,” “Belize” with Hazard Mouse, Black Thought and MF DOOM) to R&B (Sudan Archives’ “Residence Maker”).
The playlist additionally shares many tracks in frequent with Rolling Stone’s personal High 100 Songs of 2022: Plains’ “Downside With It,” Rema’s “Calm Down,” Zach Bryan’s “One thing within the Orange,” Lizzo’s “About Rattling Time,” Beyoncé’s “Break My Soul,” and our Quantity One music of the 12 months, Dangerous Bunny’s “Titi Me Pregunto.”
(A lot of Obama’s year-end picks additionally popped up on his annual summertime playlist, proving their resilience via the colder months.)
On Thursday, Obama additionally revealed his 2022 picks for his favourite films and books of the 12 months.