We simply had to bring on Mr. Bad Advice himself Shaun Connolly to go over the mayor and the city manager’s top 10 songs of 2024, recently released to the Worcester Cultural Coalition (?) Instagram page. Joe Petty’s in particular is something else.

Since the city said they’d do it then apparently didn’t, Chris put together playlists for each of them:

Oh and here’s Joe Petty (official) singing We Are The Champions (full song)

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