I can’t put my foot on the accelerator without pressing play on my favorite playlist or blasting tunes on the radio. Rolling the windows down, I do my best AC/DC impression at an intersection so everyone else can hear me. Music makes my drive!
With the GRAMMY Awards this Sunday, it got me thinking: how many musicians have written songs about cars? What if I could listen to a playlist about cars while driving my car?
Mind = blown.
Car references are often used in music and this year there is no exception. A number of GRAMMY-nominated artists include cars in their songs. Here at GasBuddy, we created a playlist of car-themed GRAMMY-nominated songs…because you know, we’re all about cars here!
P.S. We listened to every song that was nominated this year and some artists wrote about cars but included not-so-(ahem)-appropriate language. One was even about gas…. or so we thought. If you want the complete list of car-themed songs, leave a comment and we won’t leave anything out. ?
Song of the Year Nominee
‘That’s What I Like’– Bruno Mars
“Jump in the Cadillac (Girl, let’s put some miles on it)”
Best Pop Solo Performance Nominee
‘Shape of You’ – Ed Sheeran
“Leave and get in a taxi, then kiss in the backseat / Tell the driver make the radio play, and I’m singing like”
Best Country Solo Performance & Best Country Song Nominee
‘Body Like A Back Road’ – Sam Hunt
“Had to get her number, it took me like six weeks, now me and her go way back like Cadillac seats
Body like a back road, drivin’ with my eyes closed / I know every curve like the back of my hand
Doin’ 15 in a 30, I ain’t in no hurry / I’mma take it slow just as fast as I can”
Album of the Year Nominee
Album: ‘Melodrama’
‘Green Light’ – Lorde
“I do my makeup in somebody else’s car / we order different drinks at the same bars….
But honey I’ll be seein’ you down every road / I’m waiting for it, that green light, I want it”
Best Country Album Nominee
Album: ‘Life Changes’
‘Sixteen’ – Thomas Rhett
“What I wouldn’t give to be sixteen, wild and free / cruisin’ up and down Main in my F-150
Roll the windows down / bass too loud from this burnt CD”
Full Playlist
