Year-round Yuletide oddities
By the sixth reindeer, the names/identities seem to be drawn out of a holiday hat. Since Cupid could be Valentines’, Xmas, or cathouse–we’ll take what we can get.
Cupid hisself (the Canadian rapper) leads us with his “Cupid Shuffle.” Almost no imagination is required to transform this dance number to a Christmas context. Now kick.
Somehow that Star of Bethlehem became a wingman to help you fall in love. Hallmark will make a Christmas movie about anything! (Mostly we mean the Love of God.)
Beat Digger (feat. Richard Schletty) belly dances a portentous “O Star of Mystery” which may not be real romance, but it fills his heart. So there.
You are “My Christmas Star” gets a DJ mushing when Ariose (feat. Definition). It’s love, just not eternal. Pop.
The Supremes feel His love from that “Little Bright Star.” Motown agape, hunh!
Not sure how long those wise men took to follow that star (from Nativity to Epiphany), but it must be tiring to fission that hydrogen. So, how about just a GLOW?
Ricky Skaggs does that blue-collar retelling of Joseph and Mary country music loves with “New Star Shining.” It’s still shining today. Powered by some pink bunny battery or sumfin’.
Simon Wolfe gives us a Motown serenade against some south of the Border brass for “Beneath the Stars.” It’s like a Santa-Jesus mix-up dream.
I am trying to avoid seriously gospel sentiment here wherein songs about Christ’s birth are roof-raisers for our own spirits. You know, like “Christmas is a Birthday” bested with Spanish guitar and folk by Burl Ives. Or Judy Garland crooning/narrating “The Birthday of a King” to the big band.
On the other stigmata, Danni-Shannon works in the R+B so that “A Birthday Party for Jesus” is just that, an actual party. Thank you.
The biggest website in 2008 (still around, yo) promoted connection and music and was sold several times for bucketloads of profit.
Emmanuel did it, a “Myspace Christmas” song about love and caring and rhythm AND blues. Skip the deepfake celebrity endorsements at the beginning, though.
This Bellevue, WA online bookseller took 20 years to outpace Walmart as the biggest merchant in the USA. So, it’s a big target for novelty.
Just caving in and asking “C’mon Amazon” to make Christmas merry, Jennifer Knapp & Margaret Becker bypass Santa and go to the new source of present seeking. Jazzy folk.
Byron Trimble gets down with some gospel soul to beseech “Amazon Santa” to make every wish true.
Oompah tuba enlivens the surrender jazz for Rachel Harvey Hill’s “Merry Amazon Christmas.” She rhymes ‘enjoyment’ with ‘toilet’ though. Thought you should know.
Overenunciated jazz (sounds like Sesame Street to me) defuses “It’s an Amazon.com Kind of Christmas.” Sounds pretty good, Dana Countryman.
‘Stupid’ video maker Lukes Brain Chunks presents persona Winston the Elf to lift up the business with “The Amazon Prime Christmas Song.” Peppy pop about unemployment, but great bargains.
Heavy metal interrupts our regularly scheduled silliness for the social commentary “Amazon Ruined Christmas.” I think Atombuzz’re mad.
Butch Ingram gets a jungle beat for “Amazon Stole Christmas (And chased Santa Away).” Sassy retro R+B fun, where the point is–to swing and sway.
It takes two to tango, and maybe only two to make a warm Xmas party.
R Kelly wants ‘everyone around,’ but the R+B cool here is reserved for his baby. “Christmas Party” is full of orgasmic moaning.
Savanna Cole fronts Going Spaceward with a fun folk pop story of a possible meet cute at “The Christmas Party Song.” Aww, love. Call Hallmark! (But skip the post-song breakdown.)
Take a trip with me to Poke Music to hear Jessica Banks vamping up “Get This Christmas Party On.” Short, sultry, jazzy, seductive: worth it.
“Christmas Party” for Blowfly is all naughty. Disco Motown is non-stop profanity, but it comes to a satisfying end. Santa B Nastee.
Christmas party lull? Dance time, Mother Father!
Instructing us to sing and dance (Conga!), Harry Mercer gets pop with the soul in “The Christmas Party Song.” Celebrate in 5/8.
3LW (feat. Treach) pulse with their electronic dance R+B “Christmas Party.” Get off the wall, get on the floor….
Deck those halls! Bunting! Tinsel!
Ke’Andra orders the playlist and anticipates the dance needs of all her hanger-ons with R+B rap “Christmas Party.” Heeey!
“A Very Good Christmas Party” is one of those winners of awful Christmas music contests. But The Gator Family do detail the details of what’s on the walls. (And what she’s wearing too, you dog.)
Eddie Floyd is soul mellow with his R+B “Christmas Party.” He’s a slow partyer, ladies. It’s all in the forethought to set the mood.