I’ve written earlier than about simply how a lot I really like Grand Theft Auto’s radio stations. Rockstar has an unimaginable knack for musical curation, and there is nary been a observe in these video games that I have never vibed with. Hell, I’ve spent most of my life as a raging emo in England and I completely cherished the country-bumpkin-as-hell Ok-Rose again in San Andreas.
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I’ve additionally bought an enormous mushy spot for Non Cease Pop in Grand Theft Auto 5—Cara Delevingne’s borderline robotic London accent chopping by means of nostalgic bangers from the ’80s, ’90s, and ’00s like Amerie’s 1 Factor and Pet Store Boys’ West Finish Women, later introducing some extra trendy tracks like Lorde’s Tennis Court docket and M83’s Midnight Metropolis.
Each recreation within the sequence is all the time residence to an enormous unfold of stations that cowl nearly each style you may want for, and it offers Rockstar a lot room to mess around with iconic tunes and extra area of interest belongings you’d solely in any other case hear out of your mate-of-a-mate-of-a-mate-of-a-mate at a 4am after drinks in some stranger’s diabolically tiny flat.
With Grand Theft Auto 6 set to happen in a modern-day Vice Metropolis, that provides the developer even higher liberty to go ham on which tracks it consists of. We have got a complete Covid period of TikTok songs that really feel like they’d match proper into the Florida-adjacent Leonida (however please no Dance Monkey, I encourage of you), plus a wealth of untapped 80s and 90s tunes that might be becoming of this digital sunshine state.
We have got over a decade’s price of artists to choose from since Rockstar final added songs to Grand Theft Auto 5 who I believe could be unimaginable for some late-night drives—PinkPanthress, Charlie XCX, Kaytranada, and Tame Impala come to thoughts as only a few who would completely bang within the new recreation. And my internal emo would like to see bands like Fontaines D.C., Don Broco, and Spiritbox showing in Rockstar’s oft-criminally underutilised trendy rock stations.
However what about you? Are there a few of your favorite artists who you suppose would match Grand Theft Auto 6’s world of Leonida completely? Or are there tracks you hope make it in simply because they’re humorous, or would annoy a mate of yours? Do you need TikTok brainrot tracks? Please say no to that one.
Whoever or no matter you’ve got bought in thoughts, remember to drop a remark and tell us the artists and tracks in your private wishlist. In any case, we’re gonna be spending an terrible lot of time in automobiles in that recreation—the songs higher be good!
