Ben Platt is here to make you with this perfectly curated playlist
The Dear Evan Hansen and Pitch Perfect star fully endorses dancing it out
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‘Yebba is one of the greatest vocalists I‘ve ever heard. This song really fills me up – it feels very warm and calming.’
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‘I Know A Place is one of my favourite “release everything” dance songs – a jump-around-andthrow-your-arms-to-theside kind of song.’
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‘My family is Jewish, and whenever one of us had a bar or bat mitzvah, my dad would make us a montage of pictures and home videos. One of the songs he set my sister‘s video to was Your Smiling Face. Whenever I hear it, it always makes me think of my family.’
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‘I saw Maggie Rogers live twice, and I listened to her album about 300 out of 365 days last year. Light On can really take you out of your head and into your body.’
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‘First and foremost, I love Haim because they’re fantastic Jewish sisters and they’re from LA, so they’re girls of my own heart. This song‘s got a lot of funk.’
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‘It’s so rare that someone can take a classic song that’s not theirs and make you hear it in a way you’ve never heard it before. To do that with a Joni Mitchell song is even harder.’
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‘Ariana Grande does so many different vocal things that are impressive. As a singer, it‘s so fun to listen to.’
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‘I love a song that juxtaposes joyful release with a lyric that‘s more melancholy. Positive on positive can be overkill.’
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‘How Will I Know is the ultimate joymaker. I can’t listen to it without feeling happy or smiling a bit.’
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‘I wanted to write a song that I would listen to when the anxiety of this year becomes too much. I’m hoping it comforts many people.’ Dear Evan Hansen is in cinemas 22 October
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