25 New Holiday Music Releases: Victoria Monet, BTS’s V, Clay Aiken, the Kelce Brothers, Ben Folds and Others Deck the Halls
variety.comA.D. Amorosi Even the best worst year ever – choose the epoch closest to your offended political affiliation – has a Christmas.
And every Christmas, crumbling culture or not, comes with scads of new holiday music. So, before the drones kill us with molten metal spray and death rays, here are 25 new Christmas moments to thrill to, while we can still thrill.
If holiday music dueting with David Bowie for 1977’s “Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy” didn’t kill Bing Crosby (wait, he did die weeks later), the Ghost of Crooning Christmas Past gets to rolls around in his tinselly grave for this silken, stringed ballad take on his 100 million-plus-selling single, now with V from BTS.
V is an old-school jazz fan, and gets what it means to follow along, pensively, sonorously and seamlessly with Bing as if he were the millennial Bob Hope in a K-pop “Road to” musical comedy.
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