Mullinax Cadillac Playlist

Mullinax Cadillac Playlist

Rock. Pop. Hip-hop. Everyone has a favorite music genre. 

Ours, you ask? Songs about Cadillacs.

At Mullinax, we believe there’s no better playlist to blare in your car than one about cars. And what car has inspired better hits than the Caddy itself? 

Enjoy this selection of our favorite Cadillac-inspired songs. It’s no surprise that the car known as the standard of the world has given us these world-standard tunes.

Pink Cadillac — Bruce Springsteen

Who better to kick things off than The Boss? Like Prince’s Corvette and Wilson Picket’s Mustang, Bruce’s Cadillac has become one of the most beloved trademarks of his discography. If the song’s pure rockabilly isn’t enough to impress you, its lyrics are also an ode to rock history — the “pink cadillac” is a reference to a car owned by none other than Elvis himself.

White Walls — Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

Sorry if we gave you whiplash with the 30-year leap from Bruce to Macklemore and from rock to rap … there are no rules on a Cadillac playlist. This catchy hip-hop collab track might not mention the car in its title, but from the moment Macklemore spells out C-A-D-I-L-L-A-C in the first verse, it’s obvious the song is about nothing other than two guys and their love for Caddys.

Cadillac Jack — Andre Williams

All right — back to the classics. This R&B tune tells the tragic story of Jack, who went from cruising in a long white Cadillac to lying in a long black one after getting friendly with the wrong man’s woman. Cautionary and catchy — now that’s a killer tune (no pun intended).

Cadillac Dreams — KISS

A bit of KISS lore: in 1974, a football team from Cadillac High School, Michigan, chose KISS’s music for their warm-up soundtrack and credited the band for its winning season. KISS visited the town the next year to play a homecoming concert in the school gym. This track, released 25 years later, may be about the car, not the town — but the story was too good not to share.

Cadillac Tears — Kevin Denney

All right, we’re segueing to the world of country (no rules for this playlist, remember?). This upbeat tune about a divorced woman on a spending spree would be a great addition, not just to your driving playlist, but to your next line-dancing lineup. (Just look up “Cadillac Tears line dance” and you’ll see enough choreography videos to last a lifetime.)

Movin’ Out (Anthony’s Song) — Billy Joel

“Tradin’ in his Chevy for a Cadillac-ac-ac-ac-ac-ac.” Okay, so that’s the only lyric in Movin’ Out that actually references a Cadillac. But Billy Joel is the reason we hear “ac-ac-ac” in our head every time someone says the word Cadillac, so how could we not include it? 

Cadillacs on 22s — David Banner

David Banner says the Cadillac in this track symbolizes “the current state of … oversaturation with ‘bling, bling, bling.’” A rap banger and a commentary on consumerism? Only David Banner could make it work so well. Now you can cruise and contemplate all at once.

Two Black Cadillacs — Carrie Underwood

The original female solidarity anthem. When two women realize they’re involved with the same man, they take matters into their own hands. We don’t know exactly what they did, but we know the rest of the song takes place at his funeral. And we know two black Cadillacs were involved.

Maybellene — Chuck Berry

The third song on this list that tells a story about infidelity involving a Cadillac … but unlike Carrie’s and Andre’s, this one has no casualties. The rock classic about a man chasing his Caddy-driving ex was 102 in the 2021 edition of Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

Cadillac Ranch — Bruce Springsteen

We could’ve included one of the countless covers of this song on this list — Warren Zevon, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Rick Trevino — to avoid mentioning Bruce twice on the same playlist. But who are we kidding? No one sings Cadillac Ranch like The Boss. We’re proud that ending our selection with this surprisingly existential rocker makes our list into a Bruce Springsteen sandwich.