Happy Election Day! Once you’ve cast your ballot, there’s not much to do except sit around and wait. Or refresh Twitter every five seconds for rumors about early turnout and voter suppression, get ...
Happy Election Day! Once you’ve cast your ballot, there’s not much to do except sit around and wait. Or refresh Twitter every five seconds for rumors about early turnout and voter suppression, get your hopes raised by the New York Times and then dashed by FiveThirtyEight … it’s going to be a long, emotional day.
The playlist below is designed to guide you through “all the feels,” as the Millennial voting bloc would say. These songs capture the highs and lows, the buoyant hope and apocalyptic despair, the adrenaline and exhaustion that many of us will be experiencing over the next 12 hours. Depending on your preferred coping mechanisms, we hope it either gets you excited for change to come—or helps you stop thinking about tomorrow.
Get Out The Vote
1. “POWER,” Kanye West
2. “Freedun,” MIA
3. “Rebel Girl” by Bikini Kill
4. “Run the World (Girls),” Beyoncé
5. “Nasty,” Janet Jackson
6. “People Have the Power,” Patti Smith
7. “There is Power in a Union,” Billy Bragg
Get Nervous
8. “The Gentle Hum of Anxiety,” Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
9. “The Boy with the Perpetual Nervousness,” Feelies
10. “19th Nervous Breakdown,” Rolling Stones
11. “Don’t Believe the Hype,” Public Enemy
12. “I Can’t Stand it ’76,” James Brown
13. “Baby, I Can’t Stand It,” Bobby Womack
14. “Tomorrow Never Comes,” Elvis Presley
15. “I Don’t Care (If Tomorrow Never Comes),” Hank Williams Jr.
16. “Wake Me Up When It’s Over,” Jimmy Ruffin
17. “Tell Me When It’s Over,” The Dream Syndicate
18. “The Eve of Destruction,” Barry McGuire
19. “Freaking Out,” Toro y Moi
20. “Freak Out / Starry Eyes,” LCD Soundsystem
21. “Just Another Nervous Wreck,” Supertramp
22. “Mississipi Goddam,” Nina Simone
23. “It Don’t Worry Me,” Barbara Harris & Keith Carradine
Get the Results
24. “The Night Is Still Young,” Nicki Minaj
25. “No Surrender,” Bruce Springsteen
26. “Hang on to the Night,” Tegan and Sara
27. “Countdown,” Beyoncé
28. “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” The Boys Choir of Harlem
