Dakota Fanning’s Music Taste Runs From Reba to The Runaways
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There’s a brand sparkling new episode of Track Star*, and thee one-of-one Dakota Fanning has strolled on by to put her musical memory through its paces.
This round comes with a particularly Dakota mix: Southern classics, childhood favorites and songs tied to different points in her life. Rather than one tidy genre lane, the playlist bounces from surf-pop and rock to country, folk, hip-hop and a little Hilary Duff for good measure.
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Dakota’s Track Star Detour
From Reba and The Runaways to The Beach Boys, Dakota Fanning’s picks jump decades and genres. Dig into the show and the music around her episode.
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Hosted by Jack Coyne, Track Star* has built its whole charm around a simple test: play somebody a song, see how quickly they know it, and then let the memories do the rest. Fanning’s episode uses that game to get into the music that followed her from a traditional Southern upbringing into a childhood spent bouncing between home life and Hollywood film sets.
Dakota Fanning’s Track Star* Song List
- “Little Deuce Coupe” — The Beach Boys
- “Cherry Bomb” — The Runaways
- “Shoes” — Lil Wayne
- “Jesus Was a Cross Maker” — Judee Sill
- “Weather for Tennis” — Hilary Duff
- “The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia” — Reba McEntire
- “Una Palabra” — Carlos Varela
- “Big Bad John” — Jimmy Dean
That is quite the zigzag. You can practically hear the episode changing rooms as it goes: The Beach Boys into The Runaways, Lil Wayne into Judee Sill, then Hilary Duff crashing straight into Reba. No algorithmically smoothed-out playlist behavior here.
The timing also happens to line up with another Dakota moment. Her new romantic drama The Sun Never Sets, written and directed by Joe Swanberg, opened in theaters on August 28. Fanning stars as Wendy and also serves as one of the film’s producers, alongside a cast that includes Jake Johnson, Cory Michael Smith, Debby Ryan, Anna Konkle and Lamorne Morris.
But here, the movie promo is only part of the fun. What makes Track Star* work is hearing somebody’s taste reveal itself in real time — the songs they know immediately, the ones that unlock a story, and the left-field choices that make you go, oh, you listen to that too?
Watch Dakota Fanning Test Her Music Knowledge on Track Star*
The August 28 episode mixes Southern classics, childhood favorites and songs tied to Fanning’s life while she talks about growing up between Georgia roots and Hollywood film sets.
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