On SwitchedOnPop, charlieharding and neatsloan discuss whether any modern holiday songs have what it takes to join the Christmas-music canon
Illustration: Iris Gottlieb Why are there no new Christmas songs? Not just globs lobbed onto the annual glut of Christmas releases, but records that actually join the rotation of holiday classics. On Billboard’s Holiday Hot 100 chart right now, there’s only four songs from the past ten years that have made it to the top 50.
Nate: I hear that Chuck and I would suggest another Christmas classic as the reference point here: “Christmas ,” by Darlene Love.Nate: And that was produced by Phil Spector, inventor of that wall of sound approach you were referring to. Charlie: That’s neat, because it has some of the timbres of old Christmas music, your glockenspiel and more traditional instruments like strings. But it’s much more contemporary in the way that it’s syncopated; it’s more rhythmically engaging. It doesn’t sort of fall on these rock-and-roll backbeat tropes.
Charlie: I’m a believer. There’s a little sleigh bells, some Jason Mraz guitar. Nate, I don’t like that song.Charlie: No, this is just a personal thing. I don’t like the sort of “Jason Mraz-y ’50s chord progressions with a reggae beat” kind of vibe. It’s just bro music to me. I’m sorry. Charlie: Oh, I like this. It’s so camp. Is it a timeless classic? No, but do I enjoy anything that opens with a baritone going “boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.”
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