Week 388 was posted by Charanjit Chana on 2025-04-02.
On YouTube over the past month, FIFA have been sharing songs for each of the host cities for the 2026 World Cup.
Let's take a second to wonder exactly how well it's going to be given Trump's presidency. Canada and Mexico must be wondering how they're going to get through it and we'll all be wondering how smoothly it will be run. Given we've had the last two World Cups in Russia and Qatar, it's strange that this one might actually be the most politically sensitive one in recent times.
To be clear, Russia and Qatar should not have staged the World Cup and in truth, if FIFA was not a corrupt organisation, it would remove the US as a host.
But back to the music. Each of the 16 songs released, one for each host city, has been tailored by a producer. The brief was to take the official World Cup 26 theme and to remix it to pay homage to the city.
The standalone theme is fine but the Philadelphia remix by DJ Jazzy Jeff is my favourite of the bunch and each comes with it's own music video too. I'd embed it, but FIFA have disabled the ability to do so.
Tags: music, politics, world cup