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Pandemic Playlist: An Exploration of COVID-inspired Popular Music takes readers back to 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc on the music industry. Focusing on those artists who responded directly to the pandemic with their music, Kevin Farrell explores a selection of songs written and recorded about COVID-19. These songs range from the hilariously tongue-in-cheek to the painfully earnest to the self-righteously angry, coming from musicians obscure, world famous, and up-and-coming. Farrell argues that these songs, both originals and repurposed covers, are best classified by rhetorical approach, rather than musical style, identifying four basic categories of COVID-inspired popular music: the Coronavirus Anthem (Bono's ';Let Your Love Be Known,' Alicia Keys' ';Good Job'), Pandemic Pop (Cardi B and iMarkkeyz's ';Coronavirus,' Curtis Roach and Tyga's ';Bored in the House'), the COVID Cover (Gal Gadot's ';Imagine,' Juvenile's ';Vax That Thang Up'), and Pandemic Protest (Ian Brown's ';Little Seed Big Tree,' Kid Rock's ';We The People'). Through a study of these songs, and many more, this book seeks to understand what the pandemic and the music it inspired can teach us about the previously unimaginable.