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"We celebrate Independence Day in the United States this Thursday, which means you may soon hit your saturation point for Bruce Springsteen's \"Born in the U.S.A.\"\nWe're with you. Music can be a great creative (and catchy) outlet for expressions of patriotism, but the backyard barbecue playlist can get stale quickly when every song's chorus cheers \"America!\" and \"U.S.A.!\" That's why this week our Music Monday has taken on a more creative interpretation of tunes for the holiday. \nSEE ALSO: 23 Freaking Rad Spotify Playlists\n\nWe give you 41 songs with the words \"red,\" \"white\" and \"blue\" featured in the song or album title or artist name, regardless of patriotic sentiment. Rules like these lead to fun and sometimes strange results: R&amp;B king R. Kelly's \"Red Carpet (Pause, Flash)\" starts off the playlist, followed by Vampire Weekend's \"White Sky\"; Sky Ferreira's \"Red Lips\" leads into Jefferson Airplane's \"White Rabbit\"; and Justin Timberlake's \"Blue Ocean Floor\" flows into the 1920s jazzy, orchestral masterpiece of a finale, George Gershwin's \"Rhapsody In Blue.\" (And if you were worried we'd miss Eiffel65's late '90s one-off hit \"Blue (Da Ba Dee)\" \u2014 we've got you covered.)\nTrivia: In a quick, totally non-scientific Spotify observational study, more songs, artist names and albums titles feature \"blue\" than the other two colors of the American flag.\nIt may not be your typical July Fourth playlist (we've got one of those right here), but wordplay is fun any day of the year.\n\nDid we miss your favorite \"red,\" \"white\" and \"blue\" track? Let us know what songs you love via Spotify. \nHow to share your red, white, and blue song with us\n1. To follow Mashable on Spotify, click here. If a popup window asks if you want to launch an external application, say yes. It just means that the browser is opening up Spotify.\n2. Follow Mashable, or just send us music by clicking \"Send Music\"\n3. To send music while browsing tracks in Spotify, follow the MashableHQ account. Then right click (ctrl + click) on the song you want to send and click the \"Share...\" option.\n4. By default, Spotify pulls up the \"Post to Feed\" option. Instead, select the \"Send to Friend\" tab, type in \"mashablehq,\" and hit the blue Send button.\nIf \"mashablehq\" doesn't show up when you're trying to send a track, make sure you're following the mashablehq account. If you're still having problems sending a song after that, let us know in the comments section below and we'll help you fix the problem. Enjoy the tunes!\nImage courtesy of Flickr, Shovelling Son"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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