“Unshaken” – D’Angelo Red Dead Redemption 2
Yup. D’Angelo is on the list. This song gets you pumped like going to a gospel church gets you pumped. You feel the heartbreaking bittersweetness of life. You feel the beautiful, crushing, unstoppable passage of time while also being made aware of your connection to all beings. You feel like a damn cowboy. It’s the most lowkey song on this list, but possibly the most empowering and fortifying.
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“Cocaine” – FIDLAR Grand Theft Auto V
YEEEEAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH BUDDY! WOOOOOOO! YEEEEEAAAAHHHH! ALRIGHT!!! EEEEEEEEEYYYYYYEEEEAAAAAAAAH!
Rockstar Games
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“Tetris Theme” – Hirokazu Tanaka Tetris
This song was around well before folks were satisfyingly sliding the L piece into its perfect place. Russian novelist Nikolay Nekrasov wrote a poem in 1861 named “Korobeiniki”, which means peddlers. The poem was a smash hit (ye olden days were lit) and was soon turned into a popular folk song. Cut to 1989 and Hirokazu Tanaka arranging the classic tune into the hit theme for a hit game. Hearing this song makes the soul surge forward, the heart races, the mind blooms with possibility. You can’t help pumping your arms like a little pixelated guy racing down a hallway full of baddies. Yes, we know that doesn’t happen in Tetris. But that’s art man, it just makes you feel things.