songs that aren’t christmas songs but mention or reference christmas or the winter holidays in some way, either lyrically, quoting a melody, or even just some sleigh bells if you think the vibe is right. the “die hard is a christmas movie” thing is boring but in this thread it’s the right spirit
starting with one from this year
The original version’s chorus actually contains the word christmas so the album version is cryptochristmas
lol
this album has an actual Christmas song named “Mr. Mistletoe” but i feel like a lot of the other tracks sound Christmasy as well
maybe my favorite New Years Eve song
Or, if you prefer the original,
Yoko Kanno has for a long while had her defenders and detractors around the issue of her “stealing,” perhaps a little too boldly at times; but I always thought this
was a very intentional quotation of this
i always felt this classic is a bit yule-y of mood
Just recently I had seen somebody say “hey you know, ‘Jingle Bells’ never once mentions Christmas, it’s just a song about having a blast in a sleigh”
(Same goes for ‘Good King Wenceslas’ now that I think of it)
Anyway I don’t think that’s really the spirit of the thread so I’ll come back with a real contribution later
not a song contribution but i do have a sleigh bells sample in my sample library and it’s incredibly funny how putting that sample in anything instantaneously turns it into a holiday song
my actual contribution:
in a similar manner - the manually-programmed delay in any kind of chiptune is very holidays to me
my favorite jofo song actually, did not occur to me that much that it mentions christmas until this thread reminded me