Popdust's #PumpedToGetPlump Playlist for Thanksgiving 2020
Don't let your Boomer family get you down.
Thanksgiving has always been about food.
We suffer through the awkward small talk and often anti-climactic football games for the sake of the meal that awaits us at the end of the day, and even then that "meal" is representative of ethnic cleansing and genocide. But there are a few other pros that lay outside of gorging yourself on mashed potatoes. The holiday always falls on a Thursday, which means you always have a four day weekend. Black Friday is also the following day, so despite whatever infuriating experiences you may have on Thanksgiving with your family, you can at least rest easy knowing you can go out and buy enough stuff to numb the pain.
These reasons alone are enough to warrant celebration. So while you clench your jaw through what is almost guaranteed to be a painfully long afternoon, why not curate some music to help elevate your mood and remind yourself that a four day weekend of relaxation awaits?
Here is the necessary playlist for those who are pumped to get plump.
"Thank U" By Alanis Morrisette
Leave it to Alanis to remind us how greedy we are on the day when we're meant to stuff our faces. "How 'bout stopping eating when I'm full up?" she cries out. The anthem may not be the peppy, optimistic, or what we want to hear on our day of gluttony, but it's what we need to hear.
▲"Thanks Fr th Mmrs" By Fall Out Boy
Good or bad, 2020 certainly left us with many memories and experiences. Thanksgiving is all about remembrance and reflection, but this year especially left a lot of us with a bad taste in our mouths. At least Fall Out Boy gets it.
▲"Macy's Day Parade" By Green Day
Another perfect anti-Thanksgiving song, Green Day has always been one to draw our attention to our imploding economy and the faults of living in a capitalistic society. With a self-proclaimed "business man" currently running our country into the ground, the message of this song seems more relevant than ever. "I'm thinking 'bout, a brand new hope, the one I've never known," Armstrong sings at the track's end. "Cause now I know, it's all that I wanted."
▲"Tie Your Mother Down" by Queen
If you don't at one point consider running away from your boomer family members did you even really experience Thanksgiving? Make sure to go for a walk and blast this song to help get that angst out of your system, cause there is still a lot more day left before we get to the Turkey.
Sure, the song is technically about kicking parents out of the house so a young couple can have sex, but the emotions that Thanksgiving stirs up sometimes feel just as dramatic and dire. "Family ties, in fact, I don't think I ever heard, a single little civil word from those guys." Me neither, Freddy.
▲"Why'd You Come In Here Lookin' Like That?" By Dolly Parton
"Why'd you come in here looking like that" is a phrase that many liberal kids are used to hearing come out of the mouths of their conservative family members, and they will definitely hear them tossed around on Thanksgiving day. So for those kids, like our own Lead Editor Brooke Johnson, who will inevitably come downstairs looking "too gay" on Turkey day, this song is for you.
▲"The Thanksgiving Song" By Adam Sandler
Is there any more infamous Thanksgiving Day song? Adam Sandler's iconic ditty will be sure to break any tension felt among family members and diffuse any political debates that will inevitably taint the day.
▲"Cooking Up Something Good" By Mac DeMarco
Sure, the song is about cooking meth, but your parents won't know that! On the surface, DeMarco's vibrant jingle appears as wholesome as can be: "Mommy's in the kitchen cooking up something good, and daddy's on the sofa, pride oft he neighborhood."
▲"Family Business" by Kanye West
Harkening back to simpler times when Kanye West was merely a talented artist rather than a self-proclaimed prophet and Trump supporter, "Family Business" is actually a perfect ode to the family that surrounds us every year, and it pays a sweet homage to the family that can no longer cherish these days with us.
▲"Family Table" By Zac Brown Band
Another sweet moment that reflects on the cornerstones of familial love, "Family Table" by Zac Brown Band is a peppy bop dedicated to the memories we all share and the people we share them with. For a moment, it may make you forget how much you hate your dad.
▲"We Are Family" by Sister Sledge
We are family. It's just a fact, don't get too sentimental. We mostly hate them and resent them, but it's still a fact that we exist in a familial structure together. Anyways, happy Thanksgiving, and be sure to check out the rest of the playlist below!
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