{"id":22839,"date":"2026-07-31T06:54:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T01:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=22839"},"modified":"2026-07-31T06:54:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T01:54:16","slug":"barack-obama-pays-tribute-to-glen-hansard-with-2026-summer-playlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=22839","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama Pays Tribute to Glen Hansard with 2026 Summer Playlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/barack-obama-summer-2026-playlist-glen-h.jpeg?quality=80\" \/><\/p>\n<div data-id=\"1615031\" data-title=\"Barack Obama Pays Tribute to Glen Hansard with 2026 Summer Playlist\" data-url=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2026\/07\/barack-obama-pays-tribute-to-glen-hansard-with-2026-summer-playlist\/\" data-page=\"1\" data-pages=\"1\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/tag\/barack-obama\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barack Obama<\/a> has unveiled his annual summer playlist, opening this year\u2019s selections with a tribute to the late <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/artist\/glen-hansard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Glen Hansard<\/a>. The former president kicked off the list with Hansard\u2019s \u201cSong of Good Hope,\u201d writing, \u201cIt starts with a song Michelle and I love by Glen Hansard, a great musician who passed tragically this week. Our hearts go out to his family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Obama\u2019s characteristically wide-ranging picks include contemporary tracks from The Strokes, Doechii and SZA, Noah Kahan, Vince Staples, Tyla and Zara Larsson, and Mumford &amp; Sons and Hozier, alongside classics from David Bowie, The Beatles, Neil Young, Nina Simone, Johnny Cash, Marvin Gaye, A Tribe Called Quest, and Earth, Wind &amp; Fire. He also apparently has Drake, Future, and Molly Santana\u2019s \u201cRan to Atlanta\u201d in rotation.<\/p>\n<p>The playlist arrives shortly after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.obama.org\/stories\/president-obama-summer-favorites-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Obama shared his 2026 summer reading list<\/a>, continuing his beloved and longstanding tradition of recommending books and music to the public.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Here are some of the songs I&#8217;ve been listening to this summer. It starts with a song Michelle and I love by Glen Hansard, a great musician who passed tragically this week. Our hearts go out to his family. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3A1trYfXfx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/3A1trYfXfx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Barack Obama (@BarackObama) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BarackObama\/status\/2082862654549299340?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">July 30, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script>\n\t\t!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n\t\tn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\n\t\tn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=1;\n\t\tt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\n\t\tdocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n\t\tfbq('init', '1753966171496536');\n\t\tfbq('set','agent','tmgoogletagmanager', '1753966171496536');\n\t\tfbq('track', \"PageView\");\n\t<\/script><script defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v7.0&#038;appId=434175690014\" nonce=\"6gwmbCtM\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barack Obama has unveiled his annual summer playlist, opening this year\u2019s selections with a tribute to the late Glen Hansard. The former president kicked off the list with Hansard\u2019s \u201cSong of Good Hope,\u201d writing, \u201cIt starts with a song Michelle and I love by Glen Hansard, a great musician who passed tragically this week. Our&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/consequence.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Obama-Glen-Hansard.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsweek-trending"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}