Gambler Santa, Kenny Rogers, has a picture to paint about “Christmas in America.” It’s full of N. Rockwell cliches, humble narration, and blast out your doors choir backup. You might want your hand over your heart for this one, peanut gallery.
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United We Christmas Tree Stand: just us
We’re getting divisive here, another proud American tradition–but not our chosen theme. So let’s not link to any more songs about them vs. us: racism, sexism, classism, ageism, heightism, weightism, politics (yes, virginia, there’s haters’ christmas songs for all of them).
Let’s blend, melt, be together.
Pat Benatar belts out some extremely light rock with “Christmas in America.” They grow up so conservative, don’t they? Naw, she’s godblessing us all, even her grownup head banging fans.
United We Christmas Tree Stand: corporate (not!)
Continuing from our concerns over consumptive consumerism, some carolers counter the corporate coverage of Christmas. Cleverly now….
Posh Hammer add robotic irony to their drear tale of corporate takeover of the holidays. “A Very Corporate Christmas” bangs on like a dirge, but these kids have something to say.
“A Corporate Christmas Carol” by Charlie Reynardine & Michael G. Ronstadt lulls us with glorious harmonious pop folk. Afraid the kids win out, however, and these guys will buy their way through the brand names. (They win me back with their credits roll at the end of the video.)
Davids jolly up the joint with “CGI Penguins (An Anti-Corporate Christmas Song).” At least we have a song to sing along with while we throw shade on Coca-Cola.
United We Christmas Tree Stand: capitalism (not!)
It’s not in the Constitution, but USA is a democratic republic based on the fundamentals of capitalism.
Christmas has also been a bastion of that.
Sadly most reactions have been so caught up in reactionarianism, they fail to win by wit.
Sean Michael Wilson teeters through “Christmas Song for Capitalism” con brio but you’ll be done before he will. BLUE ALERT!
The Twin Cities Industrial Workers of the World shyly and slyly do their part at an insiders’ party, singing “Anti-Capitalist Carols” to the choir. It’s pretty violent, even for Marxist humor.
Toxic Socket’s short finger-wagging screed “Merry Christmas Capitalism” is a fun slide show, still more angry than provocative.
United We Christmas Tree Stand: wall st.
While we’re on the subject of bailing out Santa…
…of the many US milestones we might inaugurate a carol to, Wall Street seems too apt to pass up.
Watkins and the Rapiers fiddle up a folky grassy bit o’ blues with “Christmas at Occupy Wall Street.” It lands as a sentimental Old World reflection of the times. In this live recording the lads might be a bit in the bag, tho.
Phil Coley kicks up a lively country swing number with “Wall Street Christmas,” which oddly seems to counter current conservative trends and takes up an ironic everyman snark–Cut it out, congress! Danny Mack‘s version is slicker and thus less proletariat.
United We Christmas Tree Stand: santa’s going
Bill Shipper minstrels the most Santa of tales: “Santa Needs a Bailout for Christmas.” Funny, timely, educational, snide–all-American!
United We Christmas Tree Stand: santa’s here
Omar Gaudet tells us “Santa is an American.” Well, i didn’t want his job farmed out of country. Country pop; gum-smackin’ in fact.
United We Christmas Tree Stand: santa’s coming
The Kicks point out the “Santa Claus is Coming to the USA” every year. Contractually he’s bound to. But, c’mon–you know he’d rather bring merch here than any where else. We’re all about that (even got some church bells tolling on us).
United We Christmas Tree Stand: the tree
Our old buddy, Bear Ron does it again. A patriotic song about our symbol of everlasting life from Christ’s birth and death. His drunk-sounding warbling and guitar tootling adds to the surreality. But you know he stands by it. 3 1/2 minutes in, the song switches to the actual White House tree lighting 2011. Speech!
Celebrate “The American Christmas Tree” kids!
United We Christmas Tree Stand: the P-word
Baldly stating a Christmas song is patriotic has got an agenda.
Sometimes we’re simply looking for an anthem like with Lady Chioma Nwadike’s “Christmas USA.”
More suspiciously Trade Martin murders “Patriotic Christmas” to divide the rottweillers from the lambs. This soaring country howler checks all the boxes, but makes a dance tune out of grand notions. Bread and circuses, gang.