'When songs do that for us, that's a really special thing. 'I really love when songs have utility and can point to milestones in people's lives,' Miller says. He gets why some people roll their eyes when the Christmas songs start up, but he's willing to risk the audience's annoyance to write a song that sees its emotional currency renewed every year. He made quite a few attempts at dodging those clichГ©s, writing nine new songs for the Old 97's album, Love the Holidays.

I like the idea of subverting the normal Christmas clichГ©s, but you sort of have to love them to subvert them.' 'I talk about peach pie instead of one of the more traditional Christmas desserts, so that's a little weird,' Rhett Miller, the country-rock band's frontman, says. Speaking of new recipes, the Dallas' early '90s band Old 97's try one out in the holiday tune 'Here It Is Christmas Time.' 'If they introduce a new recipe, people will comment about it. 'Most Americans eat pretty much the same big meal every year, turkey and all the trimmings,' Dr. Demento, a pop music historian who specializes in oddities and ephemera, likens the contraction of the Christmas playlist to an increased yearning for tradition. Yeah, we want to get together and give hugs and have Christmas cheer, but there's also some family members you don't want to see during the holidays.'Дr. 'My goal was to do songs that felt sentimental from a direction that it's not usually presented from. 'It is intimidating to think about trying to write something that will stand the test of time,' Blacc says, especially as he also wanted to expand the emotional palette of holiday music. That's not something you can likely say about any yule-tunes written this century, but that doesn't mean people aren't writing them.ДЄloe Blacc, a singer-songwriter from southern California perhaps best known for his guest vocal on Avicii's 2013 smash ' Wake Me Up,' had eight new songs on his 2018 album, Christmas Funk. rap about ' Christmas in Hollis.' Love these songs or hate them, chances are you know them. In 1979, that was Paul McCartney's ' Wonderful Christmastime.' In 1982, it was The Waitresses' ' Christmas Wrapping.' 1984 gave us 'Last Christmas' by Wham! and 1987 saw Run-D.M.C. Her single-item wish list seems to have been the punctuation mark on half a century in which a new, original and secular holiday song became ubiquitous every few years. This year, Mariah Carey's 'All I Want For Christmas Is You' turns 25. What's the challenge of cracking the tiny yuletide canon? (Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images) Thousands of new holiday songs have been released since 1994, but none have become standards in the way pop songs about Christmas routinely did in the '60s, '70s and '80s.

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