Santa’s sleigh is taking flight
It’s full of pies and vegemite
Eat sausages and giant prawns
While playing cricket on the lawn…
Not sure this would be a bestselling Christmas song in Canada, somehow.
I endorse this heartily.
“Last Christmas” in particular is fantastic.
Yes. If you’re going for an ex-Beatles Christmas tune, I have to stick with Lennon’s “Happy Christmas (War Is Over)”.
I don’t mind MC’s song all that much. At least when they’re playing that, they are not playing that damned Andy Williams standard. I could go from here to the end of the universe and Milliways’ floor show before I heard that piece of garbage again.
As people have talked about these hypersexualized Christmas songs becoming ubiquitous and joining more traditional songs in the repertoire of banal unending Christmas tunes you’ll hear no matter where you flee to, I wonder if it’s time for this song to join them:
As I was watching that, I was wondering when the three of them would turn on each other, because even if he left Mrs. Claus, which of them would he go to, and don’t they realize he ain’t gonna stop seeing the other two, besides the other hundreds of girls who’s “chimney” he gets into.
This song is actually quite retro. I can imagine it being released in the 1960s. Think “Santa Baby.” The musical structure is even more retro, like 1950s.
I always thought it sounded like this song:
Or at least the chorus sounds a lot like it.
You don’t notice the retro in a 1980s musical bathed in 1950s imagery and style? It even has the Elvis talking bridge.
Every time I hear that song, all I can think is “That poor, poor man; he’s probably going to believe her”. Because you just know that if he does not, in fact, give her anything for Christmas, he’s going to be sleeping on the couch for a month.
Oh no clearly, everything about Little Shop of Horrors is 50s retro, from the music to the hairstyles and clothes to the cars.
It is, after all, a film adaptation of a stage musical which itself was an adaptation of a 1960 film (and one of Jack Nicholson’s earlier film appearances). So it has its roots (heh) in the late 50s/early 60s.
But I mean, the melody seems like a direct imitation to my ear.
I just get her mixed up with Paula Abdul all the time.
I have an issue of Paul The Samurai where a marketing exec says he is “Ethnic, but not too ethnic. Like Paula Abdul.” I really want to get that issue signed by her.
Ok, I don’t like Mariah Carey much, and I listen to Paula Abdul’s music more, but vocally, that’s like mixing up a trained opera singer with a high school musical performer.
I actually hate everything by the likes of Mariah Carey and her ilk (to me her ilk includes every Janet Jackson, Celine Dion, Justin Bieber, Beyonce, Michael Jackson etc etc) but I actually don’t mind her Xmas song. I hate the Paul McCartney thing with a passion, however. I think the only Xmas music that I actually enjoy is Vince Guaraldi’s Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack and Joni Mitchell’s “River”.
Obligatory train wreck video:
That one must be from when, as Dave Barry speculates, Paul’s brain was assimilated by aliens from Planet Weenie.
Then again, “modern” Pop Xmas maybe is simply tough to do straight. Gotta admit none of these guys are exactly Irving Berlin… (*)
But yeah, both that and Mariah’s are more victims of an excessive overplay issue, IMO.
(* Hey, for two decades the second best-selling Christmas single ever —since displaced— was just the same 19 words repeated over and over and over…)
“All I Want for Christmas Is You” is pretty much the only reason I have any use for Mariah Carey. I got quite a charge out of the fact that, finally, someone of my approximate age had produced a stone-cold holiday classic that could slide in comfortably next to all of the well-known stuff from decades past. (I couldn’t tell you why “Last Christmas” didn’t evoke the same response in my mind even though it more or less checks the same boxes.)
I hate most Christmas music. I especially hate Barbra Streisand’s “Jingle Bells”. I avoided it until this morning.
My favorite is the Drifter’s version of “White Christmas.” Clyde Mcphatter’s vocal gymnastics don’t bother me anywhere near as much as Mariah Carey’s do.
Speaking of Mariah being self-promoting….