Industrial Metal and a Stack of Slim Shady: The Tadej Pogačar Spotify Playlist is … Interesting

Tadej Pogačar suffered through his Tour de France intervals to the chainsaw riffs of Rammstein and tapped out his pre-world championship taper rides to the slick rhymes of Slim Shady.

At least, that’s what Pogačar’s “Spotify Wrapped” suggests.

Pogačar shared Thursday on Instagram a rundown of his most-played Spotify artists of 2024, and it’s … interesting.

Lyrical gangsta’ Eminem and industrial metal maniacs Rammstein are the eye-catchers in the playlist of Pogačar’s all-conquering year.

The relatively obscure Slovenian artists Siddharta, Drill, and Masayah make up the rest of the top-five.

It’s a muscial collection as varied as Pogačar’s blockbuster 2024 racing palmarès.

Eminem – best known for the angsty “Lose Yourself” and raucous “Real Slim Shady” – is a genre-bending hip-hop Hall of Famer.

The Grammy Award-winning wordplay of this Detrotit-based “big” doesn’t get much further from the head-pounding riffs of Rammstein.

The German noise-makers create marching industrial metal with stadium singalong choruses. Rammstein’s pyro and porno stage show should probably be considered X-rated.

Not heard of Siddharta, Drill, or Masayah?

Don’t worry, we hadn’t either.

It turns out Siddharta is a long-running rock band from Slovenia that tours its home country extensively but rarely goes further. Its top-played song on Spotify has accumulated a relatively low-key 1.2 million listens.

Drill? A Slovenian rapper who spits rhymes almost exclusively in his home tongue [and why wouldn’t he] and doesn’t get listened to far beyond Ljubljana.

And Masayah? More Slovenia-centric hip-hop.

Pogačar will be taking his playlist out to Spain’s Costa Blanca next week for the UAE Team Emirates winter camp.

His roommate will be hoping Pogi packs his trademark personally-branded headphones.