_Michael Bublé - Christmas (20/11/2011)
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Rejoice! Celebrate the festive season! Crack out the Candy Canes! Fantastic news for everybody out there (especially for those who work in retail) sick and tired of hearing the same version of the same Christmas carols year after year: Michael Bublé’s coming to town!
Michael Bublé’s Christmas mixes the tried-and-tested traditional Christmas carols and combines them with his own classic interpretation – which is delightfully lacking in the tacky sound effects that we’ve grown to expect to feature in carols; i.e. sleigh bells ringing. Bublé borrows quite a lot from the style of Bing Crosby’s versions, which he is very upfront about.
The album includes all your favourites – It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas, Santa Claus Is Coming To Town, Santa Baby, Silent Night and Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas to name a few. Bublé demonstrates his innate ability to pull off an album with a varied selection of carols – both modern and traditional – whilst maintaining the class and style throughout the entirety of the record. He even tackles Mariah Carey’s perhaps infamous All I Want For Christmas Is You.
The album also features guest performances, including a surprising duet with none other than Shania Twain on ‘White Christmas’ and also with The Puppini Sisters on ‘Jingle Bells’, which showcases the Bing Crosby style carol brilliantly. As with all Michael Bublé albums, he has included an original song, penned especially for the Christmas album, a song called ‘Cold December Night’. The song itself showcases Bublé’s ability to write a pop song and carries through the Christmas theme without sounding too tacky. Lyrics like ‘So please just fall in love with me/This Christmas’ and ‘So kiss me on this cold December night’ showcase Bublé’s hopeless romantic side that we’ve come to know and love so well, which translates very well into the festive theme.
It’s a difficult task to resist the sexy-sweet lure of Bublé’s voice, and rarely do you come across someone who can. This album Christmas is especially accessible because Bublé’s demographic is so wide and varied. The collection of songs will easily find an appropriate place in your home and in your festive experience, be it a soundtrack for Christmas Day with the family, or a relaxing way to get into the famed ‘Christmas spirit’ in the lead-up to the big day, that appears to get more and more elusive with every year you age.
Buy yourself a present – go out and treat yourself to some Bublé this Christmas. But don’t wait until Christmas to open it. Santa knows you deserve it!
Amy Green
Michael Bublé’s Christmas mixes the tried-and-tested traditional Christmas carols and combines them with his own classic interpretation – which is delightfully lacking in the tacky sound effects that we’ve grown to expect to feature in carols; i.e. sleigh bells ringing. Bublé borrows quite a lot from the style of Bing Crosby’s versions, which he is very upfront about.
The album includes all your favourites – It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas, Santa Claus Is Coming To Town, Santa Baby, Silent Night and Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas to name a few. Bublé demonstrates his innate ability to pull off an album with a varied selection of carols – both modern and traditional – whilst maintaining the class and style throughout the entirety of the record. He even tackles Mariah Carey’s perhaps infamous All I Want For Christmas Is You.
The album also features guest performances, including a surprising duet with none other than Shania Twain on ‘White Christmas’ and also with The Puppini Sisters on ‘Jingle Bells’, which showcases the Bing Crosby style carol brilliantly. As with all Michael Bublé albums, he has included an original song, penned especially for the Christmas album, a song called ‘Cold December Night’. The song itself showcases Bublé’s ability to write a pop song and carries through the Christmas theme without sounding too tacky. Lyrics like ‘So please just fall in love with me/This Christmas’ and ‘So kiss me on this cold December night’ showcase Bublé’s hopeless romantic side that we’ve come to know and love so well, which translates very well into the festive theme.
It’s a difficult task to resist the sexy-sweet lure of Bublé’s voice, and rarely do you come across someone who can. This album Christmas is especially accessible because Bublé’s demographic is so wide and varied. The collection of songs will easily find an appropriate place in your home and in your festive experience, be it a soundtrack for Christmas Day with the family, or a relaxing way to get into the famed ‘Christmas spirit’ in the lead-up to the big day, that appears to get more and more elusive with every year you age.
Buy yourself a present – go out and treat yourself to some Bublé this Christmas. But don’t wait until Christmas to open it. Santa knows you deserve it!
Amy Green