Year-round Yuletide oddities
DYLAN means great tide. Not a big whoop, except for the Welsh.
BLUE ALERT ! Whomst Gang introduces us with rap to “Santa’s Traphouse” full of guns, a nympho Mrs. Claus, and some dude named Dylan.
Dylan’s Playground is a front for half-baked AI kidsong, like “Dylan’s Jolly Christmas Song“–a song so tired it’s algorithm.
Thor’s stone in Old Norse is DUSTIN. Respect.
Some YouTuber going by unpicked1 shared “Dusty the Thirsty Reindeer“. This parody does not end well.
My Canadian Girlfriend beefs up the rock with “Dusty Snowman Saves Christmas“. Taking it seriously.
Another nickname, for a male person. Etymologically from Yankee Doodle Dandy. But it’s a reference to a human being… so let’s find some novelty.
Beached Whale grumbles, “Dude It’s Christmas” under some alt-funk. Be cool.
“Hey Dude (Get Off of My Roof)” is parody fun from ’60s Invasion. worth a spin.
Chris Plansker mashes up many pops for “Dude, I Think She Santa“. Dubious.
Megan Lim is called out (as Dude) for her lite pop “Mandatory Christmas Song“.
The Mops screech out parody in “Nippy the Ice Dude” like they don’t care.
Jet Baker one-up the idea with “Dude the Stoner Snowman“. New indie tune.
In “A Maddeningly Merry Tune” Venomous Sin metal out how you are Dude.
2 Dudes and a NES knight everyone as Dude in “Dude Song“–for Christmas.
From Scottish Gaelic DOUGLAS has to do with dark water running past. Paints a picture.
Raffi’s “Douglas Mountain” is a place, not a person. Yet it’s covered in snow and bears and… awww. Kidsong.
Also not a person, “Douglas Fir” gets props for holding your balls for Xmas. Two Fingers of Firewater give us the deets with sax heavy indie.
For Joe Frye “Old Fashioned Christmas” requires one of those majestic conifers, freshly killed. Country lite.
“Christmas Night on Commonwealth” by The Night Hobs seconds that motion, with folk twisting into metal.
Last one for the fir. “We Got a Christmas Tree” set to ‘Family’ allows Santa’s Elves to name names. Fun.
“We’re Bringing Back Christmas” is Ryan Reynolds from that Netflix musical no one liked. While pitching live trees, he takes the time to diss neighbor Doug. Deplorable guy uses fake.
Back to “Doug 2020“. Lumpp stuffs bad edit comedy down our stocking in honor of something to do with the holidays.
Sequel Rights went to the trouble to AI a musical number based on that Paul Rudd/Jack Black odd ‘Anaconda’ remake. But it’s Xmas.. i mean “It’s Snakemas!” Characters Doug and Griff and Claire and Kenny are all named.
Worse country AI: “Heartfelt Hands” supposedly by Maeggieos–just a guy in an untended junky yard with dogs. Then Santa falls off the roof. Why?!
Aunt Molly,. Uncle Ted, and Cousin Doug are the reasons “Friends Are Welcome but Relatives by Appointment Only“, a Reed Simonsen AI country show tune that reaches for the roof.
Disgustingly prurient, The Dicamillo Sisters describe what they are going to do to your butthole, as well as fielding the question “But Why’s It So Cold?“, and admitting to Douglas I’m the Christmas Bandit!
Santa is Real isn’t kind as nasty with “Aryn and Doug (A Sexual Christmas Miracle)“, a power-indie about penetration.
“Doug’s Bells” by Look at Doug is a poor excuse to repeat this name. The outro, however, is outré.
Doug and the Angry Elves brings big band swing (via AI) to begin “The Christmas Rumble“. They supply evidence they participated (Santa still flinches when he sees Doug). Fun adjacent.
Snook’s frequent coconspirator, Dougie, gets into a drunken fit of pique over the holidays for a “Violent Night“. He sleeps it off in the jug. Then… consequences.
“Too Much Eggnog” is a problem for Chris Commisso (feat. Rey BB) code switching betwixt R+B and rap. Classy stuff, until she admits she’s cheating on you with your best friend Doug. Oh, and all the puking on the lawn.
“Doug’s Greatest Christmas Ever” by Seattle’s harmonious indies Uncle Bonsai reveals the hero who will save the office over Christmas. The reason why it’s Doug might surprise you.
DOROTHY, Dorothea, Theodora, Dottie, and Dot are all gifts of God. Pretty generous.
Dear regale “Dorothy” with carnival wooing. Or hating. Xmas is in there, too. Somewhere.
The Wiggles work Dorothy the dinosaur into many of their kidsongs, introduced with “Dorothy’s Christmas Roses“, a swing pop giggle fest. Also there’s “Christmas Ballet“, stuttered to classical musicality. And “Dorothy’s Special Christmas Cake“, pop rock about fruitcake. [This opens them to parody, so watch out for The Dorothys with such BLUE ALERT numbers as “Dorothy, the Red-Nosed Dorothy” and “Unto Us, This Dorothy Night“.]
Artificially Infectious reggaes a tribute to “Dot” who arrived during the holidays. Real name is Shelby, but oh well.
The Venn diagram of names and words can baffle a blogger, but i call cool with the disco “I Can’t Even (All Dot the Dot Time)” by The New Carpenters.
DORIS was an ocean nymph, the wife of Nereus, and the mother of the fifty sea-goddesses known as the Nereids. So ‘gift‘.
tedy02 is working out some workplace issues. His AI rocker “Merry Midnight Madness” wrestles with the absurdity of the mercantile holiday show space and Doris and Stan’s aisle wars.
Nickname? Slang for a marijuana joint user? Seems DOOBER might be German Yiddish for kind and good.
Tom Dyer introduces us to Brother Doober before the War to End All Wars, then reveals his fate and rebirth in “It’s a White Mule Christmas“. Tub thumping gospel polka. Swing along.
A family from County Cork became so well liked that DONOVAN became a boys’ name for other fams. It had something to do with size and hair color.
Ace Cantrell raps to his mother about how much he appreciates her and brags about her grandkids Donovan and Haley. BUT, “I Don’t Think (I’m Coming Home For Christmas)” is the main thing–so, hope you kept the receipt.
A holiday single hit in the UK 1965, “Merry Gentle Pops” by The Barron Knights reads like morning FM drive time comedy from forty years ago. Donovan is only the first pop star mocked in carol form. This is a time capsule of novelty supreme.
DONNA‘s in charge. The Domina of Ancient Rome; the Donna of Modern Rome; the Dona of Barcelona.
[A few songsmiths mispronounce Donner the reindeer. They get no space here.]
“The Twelve Days of Donna” by MK and the Sloppy Sons seems musical. But it’s still the same old same old. Their sass might be explained in “Does Donna Hear What I Hear?” Seems she might be a music instructor from their past. Sick burn from years later!
The “Unaccompanied Gardener” stuck in an airport around the holidays is named Donna, but prefers Courtney, or so Love Note to Dexter sings in indie mismatched harmony. (What’s Lewis Black doing there?!)
DONALD is a mighty ruler in Scots Gaelic. Try not to read too much into it.
For example, Artofdefiance uses pop AI to spell out “Blowing Bubba on a Christmas Night“. Doesn’t mean head of the country or nothing with its Donald this and Bubba that. Just a kooky song.
“Donny X-mas” is stuttering funk rap from Sensitive Men. It’s from Canada. Could be any Donny.
Who’s that guy in Joni Mitchell’s “Face Lift“? Experimental folk getting into trouble bc of some Donald down her street.
In Toni Nebraska’s “Ghost of Christmas Whiskey” Donald’s passed out on gin in the alley. Not sure who that means. AI gospel country with a penchant for beat poetry.
I don’t need much excuse to repeat NightHeart’s “Donny the Reindeer“. This retro rock pop plays on loop in the soundtrack of my life.
Let’s try a new one: “Dashing Donny” is R+B overdone by The Claus Academy of Flight. More reindeer stuff.