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Christmas Album Advent Calendar: Album and Single 3/26

The third one, I'm starting to have a fear I might run out of Christmas music but either way. I am determined to actually get through this because I'm writing this at like 9 pm because I forgot to listen to it earlier.

Merry Christmas

Mariah Carey

I'll be one of the first people to admit I still actually really like All I Want For Christmas Is You, and it still is one of my favorites of the holiday season. Iconic song although I definitely get people who hate how overplayed it is, but this album isn't just that song no matter how surprised you might be about that fact, and All I Want For Christmas isn't even the only original Christmas song on this album, there's two other new Christmas songs are "Miss You Most (At Christmas Time)" and "Jesus Born On This Day", oh yeah I forgot Christmas is actually a christian holiday. This album has a lot more songs surrounding Christianity and Jesus which isn't my cup of tea and I honestly didn't expect it. That high note on O Holy Night made me chuckle a good amount due to the suddenness of it. I was actually expecting to enjoy this one more than I actually did, but it ended up being pretty middling aside from All I Want For Christmas and Christmas (Baby Please Come Home). The two other songs didn't really work for me, most of the other songs on this album are slower than All I Want For Christmas Is You, and I like my Christmas music more jumpy.

5/10

Last Christmas

Wham!

In the theme of overplayed modern classic Christmas songs that I still absolutely love. This song is so good, very much doesn't feel like it's been around since the start of time like All I Want For Christmas Is You feels like, but lord George Michael's voice is absolutely pristine and it's one of those beautiful synth-filled 80s pop songs, it sounds so much like Christmas yet it doesn't really use any Christmas-y instruments, like sleigh bells or anything. It's just pure synths and synthesized drums. It's one of the best of melodramatic breakup songs.

9/10


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