# Will there ever be any new Christmas music? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 2, 2015, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-any-new-christmas-music/739262 "2015-12-02T23:08:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Nema98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d2c977/32.png) [@Nema98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nema98)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2015, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-any-new-christmas-music/739262/81 "2015-12-07T23:25:12Z")
An attractive media executive quit her job few years ago and now writes only Christmas music. One of her songs I really like, it’s fun and catchy. Here is an article about her from Billboard. > **[Elizabeth Chan’s Leap From Media Exec to Christmas Music a ‘Fa La La’ Success](https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/elizabeth-chan-christmas-music-singer-fa-la-la-charts-5812401/)** > > It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas music will pay off for Elizabeth Chan, who gave up a successful corporate media career to focus on “this dream I’ve had since I was a c… Here is the video link to my favorite song of hers. Fa La La All her songs are written by herself, not covers of old standard classics. Back in the 1980's Wham released one of the most famous Christmas tunes of the past 30 years, "Last Christmas". A couple years ago George Michael wrote a new holiday classic, I think it is quiet nice. “December Song”-George Michael [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/0CAIEHNVHkk/maxresdefault.jpg "George Michael - December Song (I Dreamed of Christmas)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CAIEHNVHkk) ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2015, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-any-new-christmas-music/739262/82 "2015-12-08T08:51:58Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > _Christmas Shoes_ was new. I about split a gut reading this! ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2015, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-any-new-christmas-music/739262/83 "2015-12-08T08:57:33Z")
> [@boffking](#): > > Every year we hear the exact same Christmas music. Will there ever be any new Christmas music or is it a complete set? I am not asking about people doing the old songs in different styles , but creating original ones. I think it is the only genre that never seems to change at all. Yes, you just need to listen to KSHIT-FM. You’ll find Mariah Carey, Paul McCartney, George Michael, etc… Also, every music star in the world will do an album with the classics, and probably include a few of their own composition. ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2015, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-any-new-christmas-music/739262/84 "2015-12-08T11:39:13Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > There is another Christmas song I’ve only heard the last couple of years, but I never found out the name. It’s a collection of the most cliched lyrics I’ve ever heard, like it was written with a rhyming dictionary by committee. ‘snow is > in the air, people everywhere. Christmas is here, it’s that time of year.’ Really so bad it’s hilarious. Was it the Bob Dylan christmas song “Must be Santa”, which is so hilariously bad I love hearing it! ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2015, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-any-new-christmas-music/739262/85 "2015-12-08T11:59:47Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Gah! Are you _trying_ to make me claw my eardrums out? Not only is that the easiest song ever to get stuck in one’s head, but it’s also the most obnoxiously annoying tune. Seriously. v\_v I like Sir Paul’s solo stuff a lot better than most people, but that one is horrible. (A new mix that replaced the terrible synth with music that was less mired in the worst part of the 80s would at least reduce it to merely cloying.) ---
**Author:** ![botsgotme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@botsgotme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/botsgotme)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2015, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-any-new-christmas-music/739262/86 "2015-12-08T16:14:59Z")
A local radio station is playing a Christmas carol marathon-stuff by Nat King Cole, gene Autry, Bing Crosby-most of the artists are long dead. ---
**Author:** ![brix11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c37758/32.png) [@brix11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brix11)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2015, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-any-new-christmas-music/739262/87 "2015-12-08T18:51:58Z")
Some of my favorite Christmas music is from the last decade or so. We don’t hear more of it on contemporary pop radio, because commercial radio stations suck. And when I try to get others to accept that these songs are awesome and deserving of inclusion in the canon, they just roll their eyes at me. 🆒 [ul] [li][Santa’s On His Way by Asleep at the Wheel](https://itun.es/us/SIEdm?i=202238576)[/li][li][Better Days by the Goo Goo Dolls](https://itun.es/us/_7gey?i=403730216)[/li][li][Donde Esta Santa Claus? by Guster](https://itun.es/us/npqVb?i=29164539)[/li][li][Someday at Christmas by Jack Johnson](https://itun.es/us/BAIMr?i=295315137)[/li][li][The Christmas Song by the Ravonettes](https://itun.es/us/8ouQC?i=480854988)[/li][li][I Celebrate the Day by Relient K](https://itun.es/us/EfVIq?i=277541226)[/li][li][Maybe This Christmas by Ron Sexsmith](https://itun.es/us/xNwus?i=307325422)[/li][li][Spotlight on Christmas by Rufus Wainwright](https://itun.es/us/IMi9e?i=83134793)[/li][li][Gift of the Magi by Squirrel Nut Zippers](https://itun.es/us/sLJHr?i=294009318)[/li][li][Sufjan Stevens album Songs for Christmas](https://itun.es/us/sLJHr?i=294009318)[/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-any-new-christmas-music/739262/88 "2015-12-09T00:20:55Z")
> [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > Seriously. v\_v I like Sir Paul’s solo stuff a lot better than most people, but that one is horrible. > > (A new mix that replaced the terrible synth with music that was less mired in the worst part of the 80s would at least reduce it to merely cloying.) Straight No Chaser basically did exactly that. They lifted out Macca’s vocal and put it into a less dated setting. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-any-new-christmas-music/739262/89 "2015-12-09T07:06:54Z")
Looking that up…it’s definitely an improvement. But I’m a sucker for a capella music, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Urbanredneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea5d25/32.png) [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-any-new-christmas-music/739262/90 "2015-12-09T07:29:13Z")
Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer, released in 1979. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-any-new-christmas-music/739262/91 "2015-12-09T15:25:29Z")
> [@bucketybuck](#): > > Was it the Bob Dylan christmas song “Must be Santa”, which is so hilariously bad I love hearing it! Alas, no, it’s not by anyone ‘famous’ as far as I can tell. It’s very…generic. Bland collection of rhymes set to an unmemorable bland tune, you can’t even hum it, it’s so ‘meh’. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2015, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-any-new-christmas-music/739262/92 "2015-12-10T01:05:03Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > Alas, no, it’s not by anyone ‘famous’ as far as I can tell. It’s very…generic. Bland collection of rhymes set to an unmemorable bland tune, you can’t even hum it, it’s so ‘meh’. Does it have a part about free candy, by any chance? I caught a song on a holiday channel years ago that had a very similar construction to “Must be Santa” – at the end of each section, the singer would recap the previous sections in an ever-increasing chorus. > [@Loach](#): > > Yes. Not even close. The synth in Wonderful Christmas time sounds like something a lobotomized chimp would come up with. Repetitively annoying. The lyrics to Christmas shoes is maudlin and annoying but the actual music doesn’t pain me like shoving skewers into my ears. I’ve always given ‘Wonderful Christmastime’ a pass because it was the '80s, and people didn’t know any better. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2015, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-any-new-christmas-music/739262/93 "2015-12-10T01:48:58Z")
The comment about the 80s when folks didn’t know any better got me to thinking about an even scarier era, the late 70s. … There must have been some disco-themed Christmas tunes in the mid/late 70’s disco era. I was a teen/college kid then in the prime of the music nut period of my life and I don’t remember any. But there had to have been some. Anybody got any memories or search results? Coming from the same horrific era there was a thing called the Star Wars Holiday Special [Star Wars Holiday Special - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Holiday_Special) . It had to have some seasonal music in it. A lot of George Lucas’ money has been spent burying all evidence of this crime against humanity. But maybe, just maybe some of the music has survived in our part of the galaxy. Anyone? Bueller? ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2015, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-any-new-christmas-music/739262/94 "2015-12-10T02:17:49Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > The comment about the 80s when folks didn’t know any better got me to thinking about an even scarier era, the late 70s. … I give you “Twelve Days of Christmas” as performed on the Donny and Marie Osmond Christmas Special of 1979! [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5BPRJPtQa0) ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2015, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-any-new-christmas-music/739262/95 "2015-12-10T12:02:01Z")
[quote=“Acsenray, post:94, topic:739262”] I give you “Twelve Days of Christmas” as performed on the Donny and Marie Osmond Christmas Special of 1979! [/QUOTE] Pretty horrific. You win. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2015, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-any-new-christmas-music/739262/96 "2015-12-10T13:41:55Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Pretty horrific. You win. I saw that one as it was originally broadcast. Since I was 10 years old, it has been the “chicken in a banana tree” song. ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2015, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-any-new-christmas-music/739262/97 "2015-12-10T20:09:35Z")
[“Christmas at the Zoo”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3mRC-foSZs) by The Flaming Lips should be mandatory holiday listening; it’s funny and optimistic as well as being a bit sad and wistful too: kids love it. [“A Change At Christmas”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOcqU3ks50Y)'is pretty cool, too. ---
**Author:** ![little\_bit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/258eb7/32.png) [@little\_bit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/little_bit)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2015, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-any-new-christmas-music/739262/98 "2015-12-10T21:25:05Z")
This is from last year… [Text Me Merry Christmas](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmhfdQlOiy0) ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-any-new-christmas-music/739262/99 "2015-12-11T01:04:24Z")
Ooo, did someone say “Seventies”?? [This monstrosity](https://youtu.be/bkAfb3bFqoE) has been getting heavy airplay this year for some reason. Nothing gets you quite in the holiday mood like seemingly random singing and assorted melodies jammed on top of a monotonous disco beat. Looking around online, it seems to be pretty popular…having missed out on the '70s myself, I don’t see the appeal at all. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Spayed\_PI](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Sam\_Spayed\_PI](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Spayed_PI)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-any-new-christmas-music/739262/100 "2015-12-11T17:47:43Z")
> [@CatastrophicFailure](#): > > My favorite (although hardly traditional) Christmas song was written in 2006: [White Wine in the Sun.](http://youtu.be/fCNvZqpa-7Q) Best Christmas song ever! Not many songs can make me laugh and cry. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-any-new-christmas-music/739262.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-any-new-christmas-music/739262.md?page=6)