The 10 songs Chris Pratt couldn’t live without: “Meaningful and wonderful”

Posted On October 18, 2025October 18, 2025

If you’re worried about the advent of AI and the inevitable future where we are all simply terrified servants of robot overlords, bowing to their every whim and spending every day hopeful that they won’t just blow us into smithereens using their android-controlled missiles, then you might want to give the new Chris Pratt movie a wide berth.

That’s because Mercy, out in cinemas January next year, is all about a detective, played by Pratt, who is accused of murdering his wife and only has 90 minutes while confined to a chair in front of an AI judge played by Rebecca Ferguson, in order to prove his innocence and avoid the death penalty. It probably says quite a lot about the state of the world at the moment that the year the producers chose to set this ‘futuristic thriller’ is 2029, which is basically only three years from now.

It sounds like Pratt went all-in filming the part, claiming that he demanded to be secured to his chair for real. He told ComicCon attendees this week, “I didn’t have to pretend that I was strapped down. I was cuffed to this chair both at the feet and at the hands. And for part of it with my head at the end, when I’m about to be, well, I don’t wanna ruin the movie, but I’m strapped to this thing.”

At least if the actor were to find life imitating art and get stuck in a chair, he might be able to ask for some headphones in order to listen to one of his ten favourite songs, which is an eclectic selection composed of everything from hair metal to country to R&B.

Pratt, a musician himself with the fictional (although they released an actual album) rock band Mouse Rat, gave his top ten tunes to Two Paddocks and revealed a bit about his musical education as a youngster, saying, “Etching the titles of my ten favourite songs into digital stone scares me. What if I’m judged? What if they change? Of course they will!”

He picked out two 1980s pop classics in the form of ‘Like a Virgin’ by Madonna and ‘True Colors’ by Cyndi Lauper, saying that they are “sentimental, brings me back to a very special time in my childhood”. Elsewhere on he chose soft rock anthem ‘Here I go Again’ by Whitesnake, “for the same reasons, clearly I was a child in the ‘80s”.

Scouse legends The Beatles made his top ten too with the towering album closer ‘A Day in the Life’, with Pratt raving, “It’s the Beatles!! I could go on and on and on about The Beatles, they’re my favourite band. But greatest hits ’67–’70!? Cmon!”

But the rest of his picks were a little more esoteric, as he highlighted artists like contemporary Christian singers Lauren Daigle and Zach Williams, of whom the latter’s song ‘Heart of God’ is a recent loop for the actor, as he noted, “I’ve listened to this song several times over the past month, along with the rest of A Hundred Highways album that he just put out. Incredible. Love him.”

The actor rounded his list off with a song by New Orleans singer Aaron Neville, saying of the track ‘Mary Don’t You Weep’, “Meaningful and wonderful song that I always use to start every big road trip, each new job and as the initial soundtrack to the new seasons in my life”.

Chris Pratt’s 10 favourite songs:

• ‘Lean on Me’ – Club Nouveau (1986)
• ‘True Colors’ – Cyndi Lauper (1986)
• ‘Like a Virgin’ – Madonna (1984)
• ‘Here I Go Again’ – Whitesnake (1982)
• ‘A Day in the Life’ -The Beatles (1967)
• ‘Papa Loved Mama’ – Garth Brooks (1981)
• ‘Troubadour’ – George Strait (2008)
• ‘You Say’ – Lauren Daigle (2018)
• ‘Heart of God’ – Zach Williams (2022)
• ‘Mary Don’t You Weep’ – Aaron Neville (2000)

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