Chattanooga Times Free Press

Celeb playlists for New Year’s

- BY LEANNE ITALIE

NEW YORK — New Year’s Eve is the party of the year, so what’s on the playlist of Neil Diamond? How about Amy Adams?

We asked celebritie­s for their ideal jams to ring in 2017: ›

OCTAVIA SPENCER: “I love Katy Perry Roar. Roarrrrrrr. Oh ah ah ah ah.” › WILL SMITH: “I want to be moved physically by the music, so Calvin Harris would be up in that kind of tempo, joy, energetic range.” › JENNIFER ANISTON:

“I let Justin Theroux take care of the music. We hear a lot of Steely Dan.” › LUCAS HEDGES:

“James Blake, the new Bon Iver album (‘22, A Million’), classic Joni Mitchell and Neil Young, ‘Harvest Moon.’ Yeah, I mix it up.” › DAVID OYELOWO:

“Nothing probably in the charts right now. We’ll probably end up singing ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ very loudly throughout my house.” › KATIE HOLMES: “I think Whip and Nae Nae, because how great to dance to that on New Year’s Eve.” › KATE McKINNON:

“Well, there’s only one and it’s Beyonce.” › GAEL GARCIA BERNAL: “Oh man, I’m so promiscuou­s with music. In ‘Mozart in the Jungle’ we perform (Olivier) Messiaen, a French composer from early 20th century. I’ve been rediscover­ing him.” › AMY ADAMS: “We usually do some karaoke, so you know a little bit of heavy metal comes up. I’m a closet hardcore 1980s power ballad singer.” › NEIL DIAMOND: “All of my Christmas albums. I’ve got four of them, and those will be the ones that are on.” › EDWARD NORTON: “If you’re walking around Greenwich Village in the late night — I’m often walking the dog and singing ‘Hamilton’ too loud in my earphones. I’ve seen people going, ‘Is that Edward Norton screaming the lyrics to ‘Hamilton’ across the street?’” › CRAIG ROBINSON:

“Michael Jackson, Nile Rodgers, Earth, Wind & Fire and Prince. Those are definites.” › CARLY RAE JEPSEN:

“There’s an artist named Andy Shauf who has a song called ‘The Magician’ that I think you should listen to.”

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