One of Grand Theft Auto‘s greatest pleasures has always been getting into a stolen car and finding out what’s on the radio.
So, naturally, we were listening closely during the new 26-minute extended look at Grand Theft Auto VI, which premiered Thursday on Netflix.
The footage gave us our most substantial look yet at Rockstar Games’ return to Vice City and the larger state of Leonida, following protagonists Jason Duval and Lucia Caminos as a drug raid explodes into a chaotic shootout. From there, Jason and Lucia go on a romp through Vice City. But amid all the new gameplay details, locations, characters, and general fictional Florida chaos, there was another thing we couldn’t stop paying attention to: the music.
Rockstar has been teasing the sound of GTA VI since the game’s first trailer arrived in 2023. That trailer was soundtracked by Tom Petty’s “Love Is a Long Road,” while 2025’s second trailer prominently featured The Pointer Sisters’ “Hot Together” alongside snippets of songs from Wang Chung, Tammy Wynette, and Haitian konpa band Zenglen.
The extended gameplay reveal gives us even more clues about what we might hear cruising around Leonida.
Here are all the songs we caught during the GTA VI gameplay preview.
“Pop Bottles” — Birdman (feat. Lil Wayne)
“Skrilla” — Kodak Black
“Let Your Love Flow” — The Bellamy Brothers
“Love Bites” — Def Leppard
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“People Are People” — Depeche Mode
“But I Think It’s a Dream” — Captain & Tennille
“Cars and Girls” — Prefab Sprout
“Devil Woman” — Cliff Richard
“Se Me Nota (Agarrame)” — B one El Productor De Oro, Chimbala, and Omega
“Against All Odds” — Phil Collins
“Mine O’ Mine” — Aluna & Jayda G
“Inner Light” — Elderbrook & Bob Moses
What songs have already appeared in GTA VI?
Even before the extended gameplay reveal, Rockstar had already given us a surprisingly eclectic preview of GTA VI‘s musical world.
The first trailer, released in Dec. 2023, was built around Tom Petty’s 1989 track “Love Is a Long Road.” The placement introduced millions of people to — or reacquainted them with — the Florida-born rocker’s song, sending its streaming numbers soaring after the trailer’s release.
Trailer 2 expanded the palette considerably. The Pointer Sisters’ sultry 1986 track “Hot Together” serves as its primary soundtrack, but several other songs can be heard playing throughout the world, including Wang Chung’s “Everybody Have Fun Tonight,” Tammy Wynette’s “Talkin’ to Myself Again,” and “Child Support” by Haitian konpa band Zenglen featuring Reginald Cangé.
Taken together, the choices suggest that Rockstar isn’t limiting its return to Vice City to the neon-soaked ’80s nostalgia most closely associated with GTA: Vice City. The music we’ve heard so far spans decades and genres, from rock and country to pop and Haitian konpa, which is fitting for a game set in the sprawling, fictionalized version of modern Florida.
And if there’s one thing decades of Grand Theft Auto have taught us, it’s that sometimes the song playing while you’re driving around causing chaos becomes just as memorable as the chaos itself.
Grand Theft Auto VI arrives Nov. 19 on PlayStation 5 and XBOX Series X|S. Follow all of Mashable’s continued GTA coverage here.
