What Zohran Mamdani Is Listening To

This article was originally run on April 30, 2025. We re -publish the story in the light of Zahran Mamdani It is likely to become the first 1.5X speed mayor.

Zahran Mamdani, Democratic Socialism Who achieved a sudden victory last night In the democratic elections for New York City, the only candidate Which seems to enjoy the path in the campaignTight at the time specified these days. The candidacy for the position of mayor is a completely consuming task, and despite the sculpture of the space in his agenda to appear on the left Nasl Hassan Baker, the famousMamdani is not a great opportunity even to listen to podcast or take a lot of social media. (Nevertheless, the music is naturally proportional.) However, consuming the built -in social media is a little surprising given his skill in using platforms to reach voters and attract attention; A few weeks ago, Politico allocated New York State representative, 33, as a model for the Democratic Party to simulate whether he wants to match the hegemony of the Republican Party on the Internet.

Then again, Mamdani does not have to look very deep to find good models. When we talked over the phone on Friday afternoon, the Congress member was quickly martyred, Alexandria Okasio CortezAnd a member of the city council Che Ossi As great effects; Both are the phenomenon of new media in itself. He said: “They have shown me the power of communication without an intermediary, because our campaign is ultimately revolving around a policy that is not translated and policy that is known directly about the stomach of workers in the city of Benoa, but it is priced.” “Many of our drawings as politicians are to explain the importance of our work to the New York Yo residents, the comprehensive form of communications style; this is how it can grow calls and reliable response with supporters:” We are running to freeze “” rent! “To make buses fast and -” free! “

When we talked, Mamdani was on another crowded day. He had called me from the Union Square subway station, on his way from Friday prayers to another meeting. The previous day, I carried it She announced the first announcement of its broadcast This would be broadcast during the Nix’s match against Bestone on that night-“Nix in Five”-the candidate will offer more people and attack former ruler Andrew Como, who became the first candidate after joining the race in March Despite the historical luggage This led to his resignation from the ruler. The purchase of the advertisement was a force, which confirms Mamdani’s success in collecting money. She referred to a campaign to raise things.

I went to the conversation, expecting to hear the chat podcast that is in it, but as I discovered, his media customs tend to deviate elsewhere. Here is what Mamdani told us that he was listening to these days.

There are a few constants that I have, and the other is the music that I listen to every morning. There is a running menu I put on it [this] A song in particular by these amazing Pakistani artists that I have already recognized by the election lawyer, Ali Najmi, for all people. [Laughs] It is a song that takes me not only to another place but a completely different collection of feelings. It is important, especially when you are in the midst of the campaign, to be able to get out of it even if it is for only five or six minutes, and this is what this song does every morning for me.

I am more than a podcast when I have more time. Before the race, when I get a few minutes here and there, I was listening to this podcast around Arsenal. I am a great lover of Arsenal, and he is an incredible podcast that brings you the depths of fans’ culture in recent years. Since I am running to be the next mayor of this city, I couldn’t watch many games, but we are currently in the midst of one of the most exciting European seasons that we have spent long ago. We are in the semi -finals of the Champions League!

I came as a fan in the early first decade of the twentieth century, and it was my uncle who presented me to the team. I was born in Kampala, Uganda, in East Africa, and the family of my father from East Africa, and Arsenal was one of the first teams to have a number of African players: Lauren, Colo Toure, Nanko Kano, Emmanuel Eboy, Alex Song. Over the years, [then-manager] Arsene Wenger really turned how English football was. As an Ugandan child, this team looks, I was very proud. I really entered during good years – “invincible years”, years of success. Then I grew up in the years that followed, which were years of endless hope and very few results, and now we are in a place where we are already competing. I can’t watch the games, but I have been reduced to watch a minute for a minute to infiltrate it.

I sneak maybe 15 or 20 minutes [of social media] At the end of the day, there is this comedian who tried to arrest him. Her name is Sophie Bodel. I really enjoy the migration it refers to politics. Many of the struggle to talk about politics is that we all accepted some of the completely ridiculous buildings of what is natural, what is acceptable, what is rational. Sometimes, it takes a comic actor to force you to question what you have kept as innate, and she has this unique ability to make you laugh at something you were previously defending.

Like a millennium, I watch it off Instagram. I will present my wife with a ball, and you will say, “I saw this two months ago on Tikhak.” I am only delaying the permanent digital tape. This is just my life.

Do you mind if I tell you about two other songs? The reason I bring them is that it is very difficult to find time to sit in one place and watch one thing, and the beauty of the music in the midst of running to be a mayor is that you can listen to him while you are sitting on the train and preparing for the next forum. So, one of them “I love the way you are”, written by Jocelin Hernandez, which I describe more as a disco. I heard the song for the first time when DJ played it during the last night, I got out of the exit and dancing with friends. It is just fun. As you know, when you are in politics, many of the language of politics – our present and our future – is the language of darkness, and it is important to restore some light and humor. This is one of those songs that bring me out of the nature of this work.

I have a last song to give you … it’s on YouTube. So this is a man who was selling fish in England, and A person took a video of him Because he was singing about the fish itself. “It’s so good, it’s very nice, it’s one fish, very good, very nice, very sweet,” he says. This viral video has gone Several years ago, he already registered Official song Receive millions of flows. but Real heads Know It is the one -hour -old version you must listen to. From time to time, when I shop a grocery, I only put the headphones and put one hour -long ring and go from the corridor to the corridor to listen to this man who tries to sell fish in 45 seconds. I just love him. It is the beauty of every day, do you know? This man brought art to an interaction that most people believe that, You just have to go with it, you should just buy the thing you need. Here is this man who brings her true beauty. But what I love in the specifically disposed of the version is that there is a bit of the song a little and a little sad. They are the same songs! [Laughs] But the way they did … O man, it raises me and then makes me think of a day because it brings me back.

And I should say I just put things on my platform that I think we can actually achieve, and for this reason I haven’t got Spotify to add one hour loop to Spotify, because I don’t know if it could be wiped. This will be a dream if anyone reading this can happen.

Even municipal candidates have guilty pleasures.
Photo: Netflix

Your last stadium. From time to time, when I go home, my wife and I watch 15 minutes – because I usually be asleep after 15 minutes The island of seduction, USA. We are in the fifth season, because for some reason we have exceeded the first seasons to the fourth. Thanks for makers The island of seduction.

I am not sure that anyone is to root, to be honest with you. [Laughs] But I see. I would like to say that the advice provided by the host is more studied than the typical hosts of reality shows. I think his name Mark and Al BragAnd that is what always surprised me as a stranger. But this is his name.