Jon Chu: Represent

Jon Chu describes his exclusive AAPIHM playlist as “a collection of music as eclectic as the mash-up of my cultural identity: growing up in a Chinese restaurant, but also taking tap-dancing lessons and listening to hip-hop and Motown in my parents’ minivan.” Indeed, the Bay Area-born director (Crazy Rich Asians, Apple Original Series Home Before Dark) has chosen a wide-ranging selection of tracks from Olivia Rodrigo, BTS, Bruno Mars, Sarah McLachlan, Switchfoot and more. “My life is a series of mash-ups and I am proud of that,” he says. “We danced in our household at every moment we got, and still do to this day. What a powerful potion music is, and in celebration of the mix that we all are, here is a collection of songs that get me through the day. Asian excellence and more.”