Tweets Turned Thoughts on Christmas Songs

I started tweeting about some Christmas songs that were either getting me through the excessive amount of driving I've done lately or were getting on my nerves, but my thoughts were too long so they're going here instead.


Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) - Michael Buble

Oh my GOD if this does't get you ready to buy all of your presents in one go, decorate your entire street, bake enough mince pies for the next five years AND knit a range of festive jumpers then I just don't know what will because nothing can jump start Christmas like this jarring and backing-vocal-inducing Buble staple.



Baby It's Cold Outside - Idina Menzel and Michael Buble

This had always been one of my favourites; it's not too sugary sweet, it features in Elf, Buble does a version with Elphaba, all good things. However, hearing it for the first time this festive season I was struck dumb when I realised that this is one hell of a fuckboy Christmas song. How had I never heard it before?! The lighthearted pushiness, the excessive compliments, the insistence that his reasons for not allowing her to leave are innocent?! I used to brush the slight creepiness off as a product of an older and stupider time, and now must face the tragic reality that fuckboys in 2016 listen to this song to remind themselves of the tricks of the trade when they feel the festive atmosphere clouding their fuckboy judgement. This time last year I would have been giggling to myself as I tried to sing both parts of the song myself, now I sit in cynical silence while it plays.


Warm This Winter - Gabriella Cilmi

This one earns a place in my heart simply by being the best Christmas song that Frankie and Benny's plays. I have to work there all the time and I still love this song and it gives me energy even 9 hours and several hundred sugar happy children into a shift.



White Christmas - Otis Redding

Christmas songs are not and have never been sexy. Except this one.



Coldplay's Christmas Lights

Heartbreak at Christmas is eye roll inducing if it's your mate (@me) wallowing over their break up from year 9 after one too many glasses of mulled wine. But if you are unfortunate enough to have your most vulnerable and vital organ slighted just before the festive season then you are going to need this song. It's soppy, it's mopey, it's Coldplay. Like I said - eye roll. But unfortunately it's also exactly what it feels like to gaze at thousands of yellow twinkling dots that just don't manage to blind you enough to not look for the person you're missing at this most sickeningly wonderful time of year.

Fairytale of New York

It's pub lunches and disappointment and board games and your cracker hat over your eyes as you nap by the fire.

It's good TV and bad presents and forgetting the date and falling over at the office Christmas party.
It's never ending cheese boards and panic shopping on the 24th and not having enough chairs and cold walks home.
It's chocolate for breakfast and quoting movies and giving toys you don't understand to children you don't really know.
It's quickly stifled arguments and smoked salmon and knowing it's not going to snow but hoping for it anyway.
It's half abandoned dreams and mince pies and bin bags of wrapping paper and singing the same songs year after year.
It's conversations with strangers and hopes for the year ahead and having your arms around friends and insults shouted over pints you queued too long for.
This song is as messy, joyful and stomach twistingly nostalgic as Christmas itself.



Merry Christmas x