Deputy Garcia launches Pride 2024 playlist with Beyoncé and Sabrina Carpenter

Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) on Monday unveiled his second annual Pride playlist, complete with hits from pop powerhouses Beyoncé and Taylor Swift and rising stars including Chappell Roan and Sabrina Carpenter.

“Obviously we have Pride month, but Pride lasts all summer. There are Pride festivals and celebrations throughout the month of October and across the country,” Garcia told The Hill. “I think it’s a great playlist for the summer and it includes a good mix – like it did last year – of songs I’m currently listening to and artists I currently like, but also things I’ve been listening to for a long time. a long time.”

Garcia, one of 12 openly LGBTQ members of Congress, released his inaugural Pride playlist last June on Spotify and Apple Music. This year’s collection of songs is intended to be a continuation of that, he said.

“Obviously you can listen to any song you want, but I made a selection to curate how I would listen to it,” he said. “You can listen to it in order starting from the first playlist, and this one has a total of 40 songs.”

Among some of this year’s musical selections: “Make Me Feel” by Janelle Monáe, “Please Please Please” by Carpenter, “Nails, Hair, Hips, Heels” by Todrick Hall and “Fotos Y Recuerdos” by Selena.

“I wanted to include things that I’ve also liked for a long time and some songs that personally mean a lot to me at different points in my life,” Garcia said.

“All types of art and music are amazing and can change people’s perceptions about issues and can be very powerful,” he added, pointing to Beyoncé’s efforts to empower women and Roan’s use of her new platform to uplift women. LGBTQ voices.

“Just talking about queerness or talking about where she gets her inspiration from, I think is inspiring to a lot of her young fans,” Garcia said of Roan, who earlier this month said she turned down an offer to perform at White’s celebration. annual House Pride, citing the government’s handling of Israel’s war in Gaza.

“I think it also helps when LGBTQ people can see…what she’s doing and be proud of the way she does it and uplifts the community,” Garcia added. “I think that also at this time when rights are being rolled back and rights are being attacked, it is important especially for young people.”

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