1/7/2024 0 Comments Made to move barbie nz![]() ![]() And yet, somehow … here we are, with evidence of a massive amount of effort to create this recording. “I had no intention of doing a Christmas album,” deadpanned Cher to Billboard, as though snow wouldn’t melt in her mouth. It is produced by Mark Taylor, the man who changed the course of her history when he first put her voice through a vocoder in 1998. These lessons, and several others, appear to have been fully absorbed in a new seasonal offering simply titled Christmas, from Cher. He found 78 were Christmas related, with the most popular lyric themes being home, lost love, partying, Santa, snow, religion and peace on Earth 95% of the songs were in a major key 90% were in 4/4 time 49% featured sleigh bells and 10% were by Michael Bublé. In a paper titled “Data Analysis of Musical and Lyric Traits in the UK’s Favourite Christmas Songs”, Berklee College of Music professor Joe Bennett describes an analysis of the top 200 songs on UK Spotify in the week of December 25, 2016. And thankfully, there’s a musicologist with a computer to tell us exactly how much more. Listening inīut there’s more to ensuring a Christmas hit than pushing a few emotional buttons. Fortunately, the corporate music industry has gone to some lengths to cater for this disgruntled market sector, with the melancholy likes of Wham’s Last Christmas and Nat King Cole’s The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot. The other side of the coin hidden in this pudding is that if your Christmas memories are less than glowing, then musical triggers are likely to induce despondency and regret rather than delight and rapture. From Darlene Love’s Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) to Slade’s Merry Xmas Everybody to John Rowles’ It’s Christmas All Over the World (almost unbelievably, his only Christmas song) – they all want to take you back. ![]() There’s a big lyrical focus on going home. The songs need to be familiar and traditional because Christmas is about familiarity and tradition. ![]() One of Christmas music’s essential functions is to remind us of the good times with family and friends that we aim to repeat every year when we get back together for the holiday. But like other tunes on the global Christmas playlist, the local versions stick to a few well-worn tropes. “There’s not many Christmas songs pre-2000 or even earlier that mention Kiwi Christmases.”Ĭall it a mark of cultural maturity that we now have our very own carols that honour jandals and barbies instead of jingles and bells. “Probably from the 2000s onwards, they seem to be mostly about the pōhutukawa and beaches and pavlovas, as opposed to before when it was all about snow and sleigh rides,” says Gillanders. Putting the Kiwi into Christmas music in this way is a relatively recent trend, according to musical archivist Grant Gillanders, who has compiled two CDs of local seasonal songs, Pōhutukawas & Pavlova and Merry Christmas New Zealand. It does not snow upon these islands at Christmas time, and there are musicians aplenty to remind us of the fact. The sun won’t set down south till after 9 at night There won’t be any snow to make the land look white ![]()
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