As the year winds down, it seems like everyone’s got a Best of 2015 list ready to go. Even President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama got into the mix with their year-end picks for People magazine.
When it comes to music, Barack’s favorite song of 2015 was “How Much a Dollar Costs”—a complex track off of Kendrick Lamar‘s unstoppable To Pimp a Butterfly. Michelle didn’t really follow the rules and chose Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars‘ “Uptown Funk” (which came out in 2014) as her ultimate 2015 jam, but she gets a pass because that song has continued to saturate the airwaves since dropping last November.
The Obama’s favorite films—The Martian (Barack) and Inside Out (Michelle)—found them both in a fun-loving and ultimately uplifting mood, but their television choices—The Knick (Barack) and Black-ish (Michelle)—could not have been further apart from each other in genre and violence level.
Rounding out their savvy list of 2015 favorites were the power couple’s favorite books: Lauren Groff‘s novel Fates and Furies for the President, and Elizabeth Alexander‘s memoir The Light of the World for the First Lady.
Hear Barack’s favorite track of the year below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJT3b4urwcU
