When is pop music a hit? When i say so! (Actually when i buy so, but ima too poor for that.)
The Histories make a basement tape out of the pop piano banging “I Can’t Wait for Christmas,” a near serious anthem undermined by the head nodding nothingness of the music. Sign me up.
Boy band butteriness ups the pitch for The Forge Tops with their earnest smirk “I Can’t Wait for Christmas.” Howling and clashing, they somehow reach euphony. For charity.
Emphatic beat, important enunciation, Summer Camp professes love in the downbeat pop ballad “I Don’t Wanna Wait ’til Christmas.” What could be, what should’ve been… don’t make me slow this party down with your introspectin’!
Wandering off Celtic pub folk into a joyous progressive rock, Johnny Reid dances around the genres in “Waiting for Christmas to Come.” Call it pop. Enjoy.
Also veering away from garage folk into something soaringly harmonious, Charlie’s Hand Movements beats the drum for “It’s Christmas Time (And I Don’t Want to Wait.” Downbeat for pop, but that’s the way i like it.
Unapologetically, Ben Niven, Sid and Tracy Sosa crank up the hand clapping uptempo for no other purpose but to throw up the hands in “Can’t Wait for Christmas.” Pop qua pop.
