President Obama's Spotify Playlist Is Actually Kind of Cool

Hipster prez!

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Wasting no time in infiltrating another form of social media - are you following him on Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Instagram, and Tumblr, yet? - President Barack Obama has just made a Spotify account. We know, we know, it sort of feels the same as when an uncool, older relative or something joins your favorite website and tries tirelessly to fit in with the "crowd," only it's ten times worse because Obama is the leader of our country. Luckily, though, there's no need to pretend to ignore him, because the Prez's playlist is actually pretty good! It is, as follows:

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Considering that the bands features each differ greatly from each other - hipster-friendly Noah and the Whale on the same playlist as country crooners Sugarland? - it's clear that the list was designed to appeal to all sorts of people, making it likely that Obama didn't actually put it together himself. But, hey, we can still give him props for it, right?

[via NYMag]

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