I used to have a pretty serious twitch when it came to Christmas music. Most of that was because I worked briefly for two of the largest Macy's stores in the country and had to experience their October-New Year's Christmas blitz.
I will still try to do anything I can to avoid listening to "Santa Baby", as I had to listen to that 4-5 times a day for 3 months straight.
One of those months was spent also nursing a Mono infection.
That said, one of the ways I'm recovering from my humbugitis is through listening to remixed holiday jams.
I haven't booted it up yet, but my professional dj buddy dj BC makes a holiday mashup album every year and puts it out for free.
Wait, what's wrong with Pentatonix? This is the first I've ever heard of someone not liking them.
They're bad. They're like actively bad. Their harmonic arrangement is flavourless and boring and the beatboxing is fucking embarrassing. And they approach this inherently goofy thing with such over-the-top forced seriousness.
Wait, what's wrong with Pentatonix? This is the first I've ever heard of someone not liking them.
They're bad. They're like actively bad. Their harmonic arrangement is flavourless and boring and the beatboxing is fucking embarrassing. And they approach this inherently goofy thing with such over-the-top forced seriousness.
They're interesting because they're a mass-market (semi-)acapella group that gained a following alongside Lindsay Sterling on YouTube. Now that they've been around awhile the gimmick has worn off and is being judged by its more technical merits.
I'm currently putting together a Christmas song playlist made up entirely of singers and musicians who have died in 2016, partly because I think it'll make for a nice end-of-year tribute, and partly because I like torturing myself like that.
We'll see how it turns out/if I turn into a blubbering mess by the end of it.
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I'm currently putting together a Christmas song playlist made up entirely of singers and musicians who have died in 2016, partly because I think it'll make for a nice end-of-year tribute, and partly because I like torturing myself like that.
We'll see how it turns out/if I turn into a blubbering mess by the end of it.
Little Drummer Boy by Bing Crosby and David Bowie is all you need for that.
I'm currently putting together a Christmas song playlist made up entirely of singers and musicians who have died in 2016, partly because I think it'll make for a nice end-of-year tribute, and partly because I like torturing myself like that.
We'll see how it turns out/if I turn into a blubbering mess by the end of it.
Little Drummer Boy by Bing Crosby and David Bowie is all you need for that.
Oh hell, that song made me sob already, I hadn't considered how much harder it's going to hit this year
Wait, what's wrong with Pentatonix? This is the first I've ever heard of someone not liking them.
They're bad. They're like actively bad. Their harmonic arrangement is flavourless and boring and the beatboxing is fucking embarrassing. And they approach this inherently goofy thing with such over-the-top forced seriousness.
This is pretty ridiculous given the dreck that people have tried to pass off as quality in this thread. I would take Pentatonix over just about everything posted here (except like...trans-siberian orchestra, and other actual musicians). At least Pentatonix attempts harmony, and has some skilled technical singers to be able to pull it off.
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Sooo who falls into your definition of actual musicians, here? Out of curiosity?
Also I'm with pipe, I've always kind of grimaced and nodded when people talked about loving Pentatonix and LIndsay Sterling. I find it baffling personally, but there's no accounting for taste.
Even if every other Christmas song was a steaming pile of garbage, the pure brilliance of Dominic The Donkey would still pull the genre up to pretty good.
Wait, what's wrong with Pentatonix? This is the first I've ever heard of someone not liking them.
They're bad. They're like actively bad. Their harmonic arrangement is flavourless and boring and the beatboxing is fucking embarrassing. And they approach this inherently goofy thing with such over-the-top forced seriousness.
I swear, each year I get more and more pissed off at 'baby it's cold outside'. Why in this day and age is a song about a creepy guy guilt tripping/drugging a chick to stay the night with him?
I mean, I enjoy the music, and the overlapping singing, but the lyrics.....
I tend to be very feminist with media, but Baby It's Cold Outside gets more flak these days than it should, because the lyrics (like "What's in this drink") are very era specific, and have pretty different meanings these days.
Also, the tone of the song is less a lack of interest, and more a concern about being judged by her neighbors and family for spending the night with another man she isn't married to, because that was absolutely considered scandalous at the time.
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They're bad and annoying and they beatbox and ruin Imogen heap songs.
I will still try to do anything I can to avoid listening to "Santa Baby", as I had to listen to that 4-5 times a day for 3 months straight.
One of those months was spent also nursing a Mono infection.
That said, one of the ways I'm recovering from my humbugitis is through listening to remixed holiday jams.
I haven't booted it up yet, but my professional dj buddy dj BC makes a holiday mashup album every year and puts it out for free.
Check it out here:
There's a bunch of good ones, but this one always makes me winter-nostalgic really hard.
They're bad. They're like actively bad. Their harmonic arrangement is flavourless and boring and the beatboxing is fucking embarrassing. And they approach this inherently goofy thing with such over-the-top forced seriousness.
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They're interesting because they're a mass-market (semi-)acapella group that gained a following alongside Lindsay Sterling on YouTube. Now that they've been around awhile the gimmick has worn off and is being judged by its more technical merits.
the Pentatonix of violinists
this holiday season, make sure greet that special someone with a warm embrace, a loving kiss
and then whisper in their ear "that one was for burl ives"
We'll see how it turns out/if I turn into a blubbering mess by the end of it.
Fuck what you heard, it's what you're hearing
(the original, that is)
Little Drummer Boy by Bing Crosby and David Bowie is all you need for that.
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Especially when Paul McCartney is involved.
But if I had to pick a song that was actually written with Christmas in mind it'd be this:
Oh hell, that song made me sob already, I hadn't considered how much harder it's going to hit this year
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This is pretty ridiculous given the dreck that people have tried to pass off as quality in this thread. I would take Pentatonix over just about everything posted here (except like...trans-siberian orchestra, and other actual musicians). At least Pentatonix attempts harmony, and has some skilled technical singers to be able to pull it off.
Also I'm with pipe, I've always kind of grimaced and nodded when people talked about loving Pentatonix and LIndsay Sterling. I find it baffling personally, but there's no accounting for taste.
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Christmas music is pretty great.
Nah, they're fine.
At worst, they're mediocre.
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I mean, I enjoy the music, and the overlapping singing, but the lyrics.....
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Dear Satan.....
The only good Christmas song is Father Christmas by The Kinks
Also, the tone of the song is less a lack of interest, and more a concern about being judged by her neighbors and family for spending the night with another man she isn't married to, because that was absolutely considered scandalous at the time.
Music is good.
Combining the two? Not so good.
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