I’ve written earlier than about simply how a lot I really like Grand Theft Auto’s radio stations. Rockstar has an unbelievable 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 liked the country-bumpkin-as-hell Ok-Rose again in San Andreas.
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I’ve additionally received an enormous smooth spot for Non Cease Pop in Grand Theft Auto 5—Cara Delevingne’s borderline robotic London accent slicing by means of nostalgic bangers from the ’80s, ’90s, and ’00s like Amerie’s 1 Factor and Pet Store Boys’ West Finish Ladies, later introducing some extra trendy tracks like Lorde’s Tennis Courtroom 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 possibly can want for, and it offers Rockstar a lot room to mess around with iconic tunes and extra area of interest stuff 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.
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With Grand Theft Auto 6 set to happen in a modern-day Vice Metropolis, that offers the developer even higher liberty to go ham on which tracks it contains. We have an entire 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 will be becoming of this digital sunshine state.
We have over a decade’s price of artists to select from since Rockstar final added songs to Grand Theft Auto 5 who I feel could be unbelievable 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 inside 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? Would you like TikTok brainrot tracks? Please say no to that one.
Whoever or no matter you have received in thoughts, be sure you drop a remark and tell us the artists and tracks in your private wishlist. In spite of everything, we’re gonna be spending an terrible lot of time in vehicles in that recreation—the songs higher be good!
