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New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani recently revealed his music preferences in an interview. Pop Base recently spoke with Mamdani ahead of the mayoral elections and shared a clip from the conversation on X this Friday. In this candid interview, Zohran Mamdani was asked to choose three pop songs that best emulated his campaign."Okay. 'Hate It or Love It.' Got to put that one in there. 'Right Above It' as well. Shout out to Taylor Swift. Only The Young." Mamdani replied.The first song he picked was released by rapper The Game. The 2005 track also featured 50 Cent. The next song, Right Above It, was released by Lil Wayne in the year 2010. It was the first single from his eighth LP, I Am Not a Human Being. Mamdani also chose Taylor Swift's Only The Young as his third pick. Swift released this song in 2020 for her Netflix documentary.Elsewhere in the interview, Zohran Mamdani was asked about the impact of the upcoming election on "New York's arts and music scene." Responding to the question, the NYC mayoral candidate implied that "arts" and "affordability" go hand in hand."If we want to make the arts something that every person can pursue, not just a luxury for the rich, then we have to ensure that the artist can afford to live in that same city," he added.Pop Base @PopBaseLINKZohran Mamdani on how this NYC election impacts the arts and music scene: “If we want to make the arts something that every person can pursue — not just a luxury for the rich — then we have to ensure that the artists can afford to live in that same city.”Mamdani also referred to a conversation between actors Colman Domingo and Timothée Chalamet wherein they found out that they lived in the same building."I don't know if you saw, there was that conversation between Colman Domingo and Timothée Chalamet and they were talking and they discovered they lived in the same building. And that was a building that was built specifically to ensure that artists could afford this city. It's time to actually do much more of that here," Zohran Mamdani stated.Zohran Mamdani's connection to arts and entertainment is not new. He is the son of Indian-American filmmaker Mira Nair.Zohran Mamdani reportedly convinced his mother to reject the offer to direct a Harry Potter filmMamdani's mother discussing her filmmaking journey (Image via YouTube/ Jaipur Literature Festival)Media outlet Variety stated in a June report that the NYC mayoral candidate played a major role in shaping his mother's filmmaking. The report cited a Mira Nair's 2018 interview in which she claimed that Warner Bros reached out to her and gave her an offer to direct Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.However, she turned down the offer after Zohran Mamdani, who was 14 at the time, convinced her to work on another movie named The Namesake. She stated that the film was influenced by her personal experience."I was deep in that melancholy. That’s what inspired me to make ‘The Namesake,’ because Jhumpa [Lahiri] had written in it of this terrible melancholy of losing a parent in a foreign country, which is exactly what I was experiencing," she added.The filmmaker mentioned that she was a month away from starting to work on The Namesake when Warner Bros. approached her. She said that she went for the meeting because Zohran Mamdani "learned to read" from Harry Potter books. Nair added that she faced a dilemma and asked for her son's opinion."I was in the throes of it and then I was very trouble to be able to give up my own film and I asked my 14 year old son Zohran what should I do and he said to me, 'Mama many good directors can make Harry Potter but only you can make The Namesake,' and it was such a liberating and clarifying statement," Mira Nair said.In addition to interviewing Zohran Mamdani, Pop Base also asked some candid questions to Congresswoman AOC in its recent New York event.
