Songs for every dinner party situation
Cocktail Hour
People will be late. You can be angry, or you put on this playlist and can tell yourself they're on Island Time. Rum punch all round.
Your crush is joining for dinner? Your partner's salty sibling that you need to win over? Your high school nemesis? I've got you. If that guest you're dying to impress doesn't ask you "where do you source your music?" by the end of cocktail hour, then I'm a monkey's uncle.
Not sure your mixed crowd will gel? Pop this perfectly-recognizable-perfectly-smooth-yet-perfectly-perfect-background music on. Even the wallflowers will loosen up
Dinner Set
Jazz is background music anyway, right? No way! Elevate your environment and tap your toes to this number.
Tuneful headbangers. Skinny jeans. Eyeliner for all. We are so alternative that we are the same, and our undying love for The Strokes won't deny that.
Guessed the next lyric? Predicted the next chord? Here's a list of undiscovered-yet-predictable gems, songs you heard once many moons ago, and unheard covers.
Late Nite
Everyone knows the words, just be sure not to catch someone's eye contact while you're singing them. Especially your mother's - she'll be belting them the loudest.
"Yaaaaas" [nodding, with knowing smirk]; "Oh my gosh!" [raises finger and both eyebrows, opens mouth in pleasant surprise]; "No you didn't..." [gasps with delight, cocks head, cheeky look]. Blow your guests away by resurfacing those beloved tunes they'd forgotten not too long ago.
You've drawn out the meal as long as possible - hors d'oeuvres, apps, pasta course, main course, dessert, cheese, petit fours, coffee, more petit fours... You hear the first "Well, it's been-" -- BOOM switch on this list of bangers and no one will even look at the front door until dawn.
