Lips closed, nose open… make like a kazoo and reverberate in your vocal apparatus.
In “He Forgot That It was Sunday” John Prine does his priney-thing with still-scapes of ordinary people. Here the children are humming Christmas carols. The alt that folk forgot.
In the AI of Dakimo Music country sad, their “Homeless Christmas Man” has an unnamed sufferer humming while he walks nowhere.
“Just One Kiss As A Christmas Wish” is Just.Mike.Project. (feat. Mayo Velvo) soft pop ballading about that special woman who misses Grandma, and hums Christmas songs, and misses his kiss. Hokey, okay?
Barnaby Bright also characterizes that lonely female as humming some Christmas hymns missing him in some “Star Crossed Christmas.” Indie pop, but i’m getting the feeling humming isn’t just wistful… it’s a cry for help.
Or, it could be a cry to the spectral plane. “Lonely Lights (This Christmas Night)” from Harmonic Pulse Collective gives us a protagonist who moans, And I’ll hum oh I’ll hum a melody/To keep your spirit here with me. Plaintive AI pop.
Absent-mindedly the honoree of “Cowboy Christmas” hums ‘Away in a Manger’ as sung by Terri Clark (feat. Ricky Skaggs). Pretty dang lonely, though. Real twangy country.
AI from DMHA118 describes the mental condition of humming that earworm of “Not Another Christmas Song (Remastered).” Country whining.
David Ker invites you to hum along with “My Little Jingle,” a not-quite-catchy holiday New Age jazz mashup. Humph.
Disco from Christian Paul, Christian San Pascual alerts us that “Christmas Has Begun.” You can tell because of the sweet harmonies we hum. Happier!
Undone Sons are ambivalent when considering whether or not to “Wreck the Bells.” They might hum Auld Lang Syne, then they do so. Unironic pop.