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The Bobs want a house up in the hills, but then confess with doo wop that “All I Want For Christmas” is you. Somber.

Johnny Reid is achingly alone when he blues the need “All I Want For Christmas” is to have you here with me.

Matt Costa is a smitten student-child countrying “All I Want for Christmas” is you. You beat out bikes, guns and gum. A real Western ballad.

Toby Keith smarms country pop with twang for his “All I Want For Christmas“. (This time it’s you on a year-long plan.) Yeah, it’s getting creepy.

Watkins and The Rapiers recall real country music for their “All I Want For Christmas“. (It’s Your Love this time.) Seems like they’re cheaping out to me.

YOU

Mariah didn’t invent the vocative case. Xmas songs have embraced love, esp. that certain someone especial since time 19th C or so. Let’s address him 0r her 0r xhey in the spirit range from groveling to anhedonia. (Not a lot of kidding around this month.)

R+B “All I Need Is You (Santa I’m Beggin’)” is Aryah losing her poop over the object of her affection. There’s dignity, then there’s diggity.

“All I Need This Christmas (Interlude)” puts more soul into the R+B. You’re all I need, vamps Dallas Rodin.

Bamtone tries for the two-way street declaring a pop “All I Want” if you want it to. Almost country two step, almost dance club.

French popster Cimrya Deal also wants you to know “All I Want“. Rocking bebop emphases the need.

A product of the Pandemic, Jamie Jones (feat. Pau)’s “All I Want” twists up R+B into tortuous pop with a dash of disco. It’s a frenetic longing.

We All (Lords a) Sleep(ing) Alone

What of those who prefer you far away from them?

SKATERS and Friends punk up “On Christmas Day (why won’t they leave me alone?)“, but not in a rude way.

Felicity Lyons recoils against the Pandemic in “We Wish You a Socially Distanced Christmas“–like that was a possible thing. Amateur pop.

“Leave Me Alone for Christmas” is country wistfulness from Backslash N. It’s not anti-people, it’s prochoice.

Mike Weatherford quietly folk strums out “All I Want for Christmas is You (to Leave Me Alone)“–as it should be sung. The crude rudeness isn’t called for, but necessary.

“Stay Away From Me This Christmas” intones Anton Glamb amid electronic psychedelia. He vants tubey alohn. Might need to upload this to my doorbell.

“There’s Nothing Wrong With Being Alone At Christmas” by The Happy Somethings retcons the whole friends-family-loved ones magilla into a retro pop swinger of zen acceptance. Neato.

Leave a Tender Mo(Three Wise)ment Alone

Mike Krol hard rocks his boy band sound with “Won’t be Alone Tonight“, a plea more than a claim. But here we begin to address the obstinate confidence of the crowded.

When you feel Christmas’s a hassle, croons Blessed Hope, do something–like read the Bible, and feel the “Crowds at Christmas (Peace on Earth)“. Simple folk messaging that may bring on claustrophobia.

From Stephen Sondheim’s ‘Saturday Night’, “So Many People (at Christmas!)” considers the overpopulation of our planet–and how lucky I was to find You! As demurely sung here by Tracey Rea, this barely becomes a holiday carol… or a showstopper.

Cheesier pop (despite the rockabilly tendency) from The Bad Desires, “Not Alone (On Christmas Night)” anticipates the dissolution of separation and the reunion with a dear one. Or it was a dream about sugar plums misinterpreted.

Lugubrious and mournful, Mikael Englund, Árpád Solti sing “Bye-Bye to Loneliness“. This slo-mo easy listening welcomes friendship, but in the creepiest way you might imagine.

Tin can ukulele ragtime, “I Won’t Come Home for Christmas (Not Alone)” by Tracy Holiday is distractedly sad folk, but a bit of fun.

Glial Cell protests a bit much in “Not Alone for Christmas“. But the jazzy, bluesy self deluded pop is smile-forward; or at its least a self harming, hard drinking anthem. Call help.

Story of a Lone(Hol)ly Guy

John Blek has just been dumped, so in the aftermath of a destroyed roomful of decorations, he moans about being “Alone at Christmas.” Progressive country? It is slow and sentimental.

Also tinkly, wobbly, and between genres come Three Portraits and a Prayer (feat. Robin Kenny) with a whispery indie, “Alone At Christmas“. She can never let go. Actual sense of chaos here.

Spoken poetry by Art Paul Schlosser, “Lost Alone at Christmas Time” wanders improv-style into the realms of beat poetry. Snap snap snap snap.

Anthony Christie applies a hint of disco to his pop “Alone at Christmas“. The symptoms are a bit different in front of the heavenly choir here. Krampus?!

Pouring his heart out on a lonely us drive, Nikita Boone laments being “Alone at Christmas“. Why should he care? Jazzy blues.

Funky rockabilly from The Manda-Tones (feat. Pete Jamestone & Amanda Louisiana) “Alone at Christmas (Down & Out)” wears its heart on its sleeve tattoo. It is slow and pained.

Lonely as It G(Hot Chocol)ets

Loss is often mocked with others’ joy, Xmas being especially unsympathetic. “Alone @ Christmas” is R+B from Fave slickly getting back at the merry makers.

“A.A.C. (Alone At Christmas)” is echoic soul pop from Des Hume. It barely takes a breath in its misery. But the solution is pretty straightforward: Just Hold Me.

“Alone At Christmas” is measured folk rock from Kevin Wilson Scott. It’s pretty crummy, he insists. But he might mean the music. Eating could be the cure.

The Pink Tiles up the echo to eleven with the retro pop “Alone Again at Christmas Time“. Bangin’ that axe like it’s the one what left you. It rox.

“Alone at Christmas” is New Age indie from Jeffrey Lorne. There’s mystical gloom and doom, without angry accusations. So, it’s settled.

Kimaya Diggs gets her torch song on with “Alone at Christmas“, protracting her holiday complaints into a single sad–but not that bad–sitch.

Ant(Bethle)hem of the Lonely

The Smugglers grunge their insecurities with “Lonely Christmas”. It’s all about who can hurt whom.

AI makes The Mockery of “Lonely Christmas Nights“. Pretend rock names names and blames blames. Oh, well.

“Why Am I Alone At Christmas?” holler Bailey and Zane to pop western. Ask Santa, my bubbas.

The Weeknd hits the R+B so hard falsetto squeaks out when it’s “Christmas Alone“. The big city takes its toll on you that way.

British Bulldog Records hits the R+B so softly boy band oozes out when they’re “Alone This Christmas“. The finger of blame is looking at YOU.

Will Gittens just lets R+B tell his story about fearing “Christmas Alone” without you. Sad, but mostly in creeper mode.

Go Where the Lonely Cocoa

Kristian Noel Pedersen’s “A Lonely Black Friday in Downtown Toronto” is a trip down bad memory mall, but with an interesting guitar line. I had fun.

MrMeowsickles (ft Flora Lin) belt out the pop “Lonely Christmas” with anger and violence. I had tinnitus.

The Olympics are missing their baby. So they only want a “Lonely Christmas Hide Away“. Motown obdurateness. I had a problem.

Good to return to The Rosebuds with their jazzy indie “Lonely Light“. Seems to be a flirtation. I had a moment.

Ken Rowell & The Baghdaddies bebop “Christmas Ain’t for the Lonely People” with 3/4 rocking pizzazz. I had a party.

Lonely is the W(a child is b)o(n)rd

Harmonic Pulse Collective (feat. Jonathan Pallie) ASMRs “Lonely Lights (This Christmas Night)“, singing out to all those unassociated like them. Could form a band. Indie jazz.

Max gospel, Morgan James raises the rafters (andexpectations) with “Why Am I Lonely Tonight?” It’s that disco-country gospel you read about in the history books.

The Barefoot Man tries some 1960s easy listening with “Lonely Christmas“. Oddly this is prep for the tragedy. There there’s the dreams….

Dream Nails play the opposites game where the more family you visit for the holidays, the less you connect. “Lonely Star (Christmas Song)” is peppy pop with indie undertones.

Old 97’s swirl the drain with their “Lonely Holiday“. Weekend’s shot, might as well die. Grunge indie.

Lonely is the Donder

It’s not just you, bubbie. “It’s a Lonely Day at the North Pole” features St. Nick all by his lonesome. (The Mrs., elves, and reindeer all have better places to be.) As slow rocked to Third Earth (ft. Jake Lowe).

Which reminds me, “It’s a Lonely Night for Mrs. Claus” as proved by The Bandana Splits with girl doo wop. Shoveling the snow isn’t the same as keeping company.

Dan Wilson seconds the emotion with the tinkly indie “Are You Lonely Tonight, Mrs Claus?”

Also outcast, “The Lonely Jew On Christmas“aka Kyle Broflofski with Special Celebrity Guest belabor the differences before celebrating the misses with fun showtune energy. BLUE ALERT

Adding to the separateness, Tom Dyer & The True Olympians grunge the blues with “(I’m a)The Lonely Little Christmas Tree“. It’s a tree calling out your name. Creepy.