Despite my hatred towards the meaning of Christmas in our culture, I am actually a big fan of well done Christmas music. Given the tendency towards cheap sentimentality and lyrics so cheesy they should come with a cholesterol warning, this means that most of my favorite songs are traditional pieces. Things like "O Holy Night" or "God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman" and my favorite arrangements tend to involve proper full choirs rather than the dip with a guitar theme that my church seems fond of. However, The Killers have been making original Christmas music for the last few years and I actually like what they've done, so I wanted to share it with all of you out there.
The first is "Don't Shoot Me Santa", which I love for the dark humor and for the fact that the video is directed by crush object Matthew Gray Gubler of Criminal Minds:
Then there's "Great Big Sled" which probably my least favorite of the three, which doesn't mean much because I still really like it. But it's the one that sticks closest to a lot of "Christmas song" tropes, still it's fun and upbeat.
And then there's finally "Joseph, Better You Than Me" featuring Elton John and Neil Tennant. And while it's a slower piece, it's my favorite out of the three. I think it's a lovely and heartbreaking song about what faith means and how it can test a person, and it focuses on a figure in the Christmas story who's frequently overlooked. Even as an extraordinarily lapsed Catholic, I'll admit that the room seems to get a little dusty when I hear this one and listen to Flower's piercing voice asking "When the Holy Night is upon you, will you do what's right?"
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