SNSD TTS put out a XMAS song

[askbask]

What is your favorite christmas song?

Obvious answer is this http://www.jpopsuki.tv/video/Momoiro-Clover-Z---Santa-san-%2528Eng-Sub%2529/fa99c429ef9a8c5dffd346a6c9982d27

Comments

[koganbot]

Sorry, my choice is a well-known, well-liked chestnut* that won't take you anywhere new, but notable for, (1) being written and produced by Jews, and (2) the closest Philles Records ever came to an out-and-out soul song. Darlene Love, "Christmas, Baby Please Come Home."

Favorite Korean Xmas track is that twerkin Santa number by Wa$$up, "Jingle Bell" (2013). I'm also fond of He5's "Jingle Bells" for how quickly it goes off-message (1969).

*Though when I first heard "Christmas, Baby Please Come Home," when it was finally rereleased (1972, says Saint Wick), ten years after it had originally come out, it had become virtually unremembered and unobtainable.

[arbitrary_greay]

There's something to be said for how most of the Christmas song "canon" are either old pre-American carols, or hail from the crooner/Motown era. Since the last addition was arguably Mariah Carey's, which followed the Motown formula, that's how most are trying for it nowadays, including the TTS song.
Something something the holidays are generally linked to nostalgia and thus longing for more oldschool forms of music? Perhaps another generation down, and one of the R&B offerings will finally stick.
Also something something Asia has less of a cultural/religious connection to the holidays, so having accepted the commercial surface aspects, might have more space for accepting new Christmas/winter songs of newer styles?

Oh, wow, that He5 track. It looks like their "Here comes Santa Claus" track from that album even made it onto the Psych-out Christmas compilation.

[askbask]

I know every Christmas I try to watch some new old Hollywood xmas films to get the right festive spirit going. Speaking of the Christmas song canon, I watched 'Holiday Inn' for the first time this month - where 'White Christmas' debuted, of course, alongside a whole set list of Irving Berlin songs, with Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire. Some great songs and numbers, but the film was surprisingly daft and featured some unfortunately prolonged blackface entertainment. The sequel just called 'White Christmas' is a good deal better and makes for better xmas catnip.

There have been some recent addition to the standards in the Norwegian christmas song canon. I prefer the traditional folk songs associated with the season.

[askbask]

I recently made a big old Ellie Greenwich playlist. Possibly greatest ever. And started thinking about what a biopic of her life would look like.

[koganbot]

Thought that Greenwich-Barry were the absolute best from the Brill Building. There was a musical about Ellie Greenwich 31 years ago (I didn't see it; that kind of musical felt wrong to me, and I probably was living on the financial borderline, as always) (since I've never seen such a musical, I can't say my feeling's been confirmed).

I highly, highly recommend Ken Emerson's Always Magic In The Air, his book on the Brill Building songwriters.