{"id":2447943,"date":"2019-08-24T10:32:46","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T16:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=876061"},"modified":"2019-08-24T10:32:46","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T16:32:46","slug":"barack-obamas-summer-playlist-lil-nas-x-lizzo-black-keys-beyonce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/barack-obamas-summer-playlist-lil-nas-x-lizzo-black-keys-beyonce\/","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama\u2019s Summer Playlist: Lil Nas X, Lizzo, Black Keys, Beyonce"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/8846708f.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/lil-nas-x\/\" id=\"auto-tag_lil-nas-x\" data-tag=\"lil-nas-x\">Lil Nas X<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/lizzo\/\" id=\"auto-tag_lizzo\" data-tag=\"lizzo\">Lizzo<\/a>, the Black Keys and the Rolling Stones are among the artists whose songs landed on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/barack-obama\/\" id=\"auto-tag_barack-obama\" data-tag=\"barack-obama\">Barack Obama<\/a>\u2019s latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/hear-president-obamas-eclectic-summer-2016-playlist-251674\/\">annual<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-news\/barack-obama-shares-diverse-summer-vacation-playlists-190969\/\">summer<\/a> playlist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith summer winding down, here\u2019s a sampling of what Michelle and I have been listening to \u2014 some new, some old, some fast, some slow,\u201d Obama wrote of the 44-song playlist. \u201cHope you enjoy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Like Obama\u2019s previous playlists, the songs range from emerging artists (Maggie Rogers\u2019 \u201cBurning,\u201d Daniel Caesar and H.E.R.\u2019s \u201cBest Part,\u201d Elle Mai\u2019s \u201cBoo\u2019d Up, Rosalia &amp; J. Balvin\u2019s \u201cCon Altura\u201d) to rock legends (Van Morrison\u2019s \u201cBrown Eyed Girl,\u201d Rolling Stones\u2019 \u201cHappy,\u201d Steely Dan\u2019s \u201cReelin\u2019 in the Years\u201d and the Youngbloods\u2019 \u201cGet Together\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>The playlist also boasts the summer\u2019s biggest single, Lil Nas X\u2019s \u201cOld Town Road (Remix)\u201d with Billy Ray Cyrus, as well as recent hits like Lizzo\u2019s \u201cJuice,\u201d Beyonce\u2019s \u201cMood 4 Eva\u201d and Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello\u2019s \u201cSenorita.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Most musical genres are also spotlighted, from hip-hop (Lauryn Hill, Drake, A Tribe Called Quest, Mac Miller) to R&amp;B (Raphael Saddiq, John Legend, the Spinners) to indie rock (Sharon Van Etten, Black Keys) reggae (Toots &amp; The Maytals) and jazz (Charles Mingus).<\/p>\n<p>Check out Obama\u2019s entire summer playlist below:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.662280701754\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">With summer winding down, here\u2019s a sampling of what Michelle and I have been listening to \u2014 some new, some old, some fast, some slow. Hope you enjoy. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BS5ri1lvxz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/BS5ri1lvxz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Barack Obama (@BarackObama) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BarackObama\/status\/1165286625208950784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">August 24, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/barack-obama-summer-playlist-876061\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lil Nas X, Lizzo, the Black Keys and the Rolling Stones are among the artists whose songs landed on Barack Obama\u2019s latest annual summer playlist. \u201cWith summer winding down, here\u2019s a sampling of what Michelle and I have been listening to \u2014 some new, some old, some fast, some slow,\u201d Obama wrote of the 44-song [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2447943","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 18:37:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2447943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}