{"id":21008,"date":"2021-04-28T18:22:36","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T18:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=21008"},"modified":"2021-04-28T18:56:20","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T18:56:20","slug":"questlove-oscars-academy-awards","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/questlove-oscars-academy-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Questlove&#8217;s Oscar Playlist Is Here To Give You Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_21015\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21015\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21015\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/04\/GettyImages-1205130576-e1619631997704.jpg\" alt=\"Questlove\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21015\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Questlove (Photo: Kevork Djansezian\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Get out your <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/crocs-sales-soaring-2021\/\">gold dancing Crocs<\/a>! If you found yourself unable to stop grooving between the acceptance speeches \u2014 and <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/awards\/oscars\/frances-mcdormand-wolf-howl-oscars-explained\/\" target=\"_blank\">wolf howls <\/a>\u2014 on Sunday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/women-set-record-oscars\/\">93rd Annual Academy Awards<\/a> broadcast, you\u2019re in luck! Questlove, who served as the ceremony\u2019s first ever DJ in lieu of a live orchestra, has posted a playlist featuring every track he played at LA\u2019s Union Station.<\/p>\n<p>Janet\u2019s \u201cTogether Again.\u201d Donna Summer\u2019s \u201cLove To Love You Baby.\u201d Lots of <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/her-prince-oscars-tribute\/\">Prince<\/a>. And, of course, <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/glenn-close-da-butt-oscars\/\">E.U.\u2019s \u201cDa\u2019 Butt.&#8221;<\/a> It\u2019s all here.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Spotify Embed: Oscar Playlist 2021 by Questlove (everything I played before\/during\/after the Oscars)\" width=\"300\" height=\"380\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/playlist\/0D3lPvcCccDMXE28mILTFk\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The broadcast itself may have been a little underwhelming, but Questlove kept the energy in the room up with his carefully curated selection of tracks. In a <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2021\/music\/news\/questlove-oscars-playlist-academy-awards-1234961715\/\" target=\"_blank\">statement<\/a> accompanying the playlist, he reveal that, unsurprisingly, things really picked up during commercial breaks. \u201cKnowing this was the first time we were together since LAST YEAR (Oscars 2020 was my last trip before lockdown) I made sure the music was livelier &amp; exciting during commercials,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Roots frontman also broke the pro DJ\u2019s cardinal rule for one cinema doyenne: \u201cFrancis McDormand graciously requested \u2018Brick House\u2019 by the Commodores,\u201d he says. \u201cNormally I avoid requests, but it was her night so I gladly obliged.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Questlove also reprised his 2020 role as the Oscars\u2019 musical director. Unfortunately, the original music he and The Roots recorded for the show didn\u2019t make the playlist. But throwbacks like Kriss Kross\u2019s 1992 hit \u201cJump\u201d is there alongside Bj\u00f6rk\u2019s \u201cHuman Behavior.\u201d This calls for a mid-Wednesday dance break!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29097,"featured_media":21015,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[38,16],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.5 (Yoast SEO v20.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Questlove Posts Full Oscars DJ Set Playlist<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Happy Humpday: here&#039;s every song Questlove played in his Oscars DJ set!\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/questlove-oscars-academy-awards\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" 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