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It\u2019s that time of year when the weather outside is frightful (how am I still sweating during a cold shower?) and beer tastes so delightful (look, I don\u2019t know the words), and your supermarket is spinning Michael Buble\u2019s Holly Jolly Christmas<\/em> around the clock like a Satanic incantation. December\u2019s music is, to put it mildly, suffocatingly familiar.<\/p>\n

Look to the top of the pop charts and you\u2019ll see the usual suspects on high rotation: there\u2019s Mariah Carey\u2019s annual windfall, All I Want for Christmas is You<\/em>; there\u2019s Brenda Lee, rockin\u2019 around the Christmas tree. In a pleasant surprise, Ariana Grande has muscled her way into the action with her 2014 cut Santa Tell Me<\/em> becoming a generational favourite, while ol\u2019 Buble \u2013 also boasting a cover of that other staple, It\u2019s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas<\/em> \u2013 might as well replace his nose with a carrot at this point.<\/p>\n

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A very Cher Christmas: the 77-year-old performing at New York\u2019s Jingle Ball earlier this month.<\/span>Credit: <\/span>Charles Sykes\/Invision\/AP<\/cite><\/p>\n

We need something new! And new good, not new bad. Wheatus\u2019 Christmas Dirtbag<\/em> (an update on their 2000 smash) is goofy and nostalgic, but whoever\u2019s out here playing Travis (and brother Jason) Kelce\u2019s Philly-leaning twist on The Pogues\u2019 Fairytale of New York<\/em> deserves a visit from the Krampus. And as much as I can appreciate the jaunty northern soul-esque stylings of, um, Hannah Waddingham\u2019s Home For Christmas<\/em>, I don\u2019t need to be reminded about Ted Lasso<\/em> during the season\u2019s festivities.<\/p>\n

But hark \u2013 2023 has a sleighful of new Christmas classics, and leading the charge is, oddly enough, Cher. Stop everything, head to your music streaming service of choice, and cue up DJ, Play a Christmas Song<\/em>. Like her \u201998 anthem Believe<\/em> but seasonal, the song is a dance-pop banger that\u2019ll turn your family Christmas party into a sweaty nightclub. Pour some vodkas and watch Grandma, crackers in hand, go off.<\/p>\n

If that\u2019s not enough Christmas Cher for you, the 77-year-old\u2019s 27th studio album, released in October, also includes the intriguing Drop Top Sleigh Ride<\/em>, a Miami Bass-inflected track featuring a guest verse from rapper Tyga, who utters the line \u201cshake that thing like a snow globe\u201d. Again, Grandma.<\/p>\n

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Alanis Morissette has felt the Christmas spirit.<\/span><\/p>\n

At a smoother pace comes Alanis Morissette\u2019s Last Christmas EP<\/em>, which is what I imagine Christmas sounds like at Lilith Fair. The standout here is What Child Is This<\/em>, a cover of William Chatterton Dix\u2019s 1865 carol, where Alanis comes across like a medieval maid (Caroline Polachek?) on what I\u2019m sure is a lute. It\u2019s new age-y and atmospheric, and you\u2019ll want to chug mead and joust afterwards.<\/p>\n

Of course, Mariah has her Christmas acolytes. Brandy, possessor of one of the greatest voices in late \u201990s R&B, has produced the sort of Christmas album you could listen to in mid-April and relish. It\u2019s smooth and sultry \u2013 the fluttery Christmas Party for Two<\/em> is an almost uncomfortable seasonal sex jam \u2013 and, I\u2019ll admit, I found myself swaying my head and fluttering my fingers to her Deck the Halls<\/em> like I was Lauryn Hill in Sister Act 2<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Sabrina Carpenter, arch-nemesis of pop star Olivia Rodrigo, has also gone the slick R&B route with her Fruitcake EP<\/em>, and it\u2019s playful in a post-Eartha Kitt kind of way. \u201cWhen you\u2019re comin\u2019 down the chimney, ooh, it feels so good, I need that Charles Dickens,\u201d she sings on opener A Nonsense Christmas<\/em>, which, come on, that\u2019s just a good Dickens reference. This tongue-in-cheek approach covers the whole project, so it\u2019s best suited to the Grinch in your life rather than the person who finished their gift shopping in November.<\/p>\n

Finally, for those playing Whamageddon \u2013 whereby masochists seek to go as far into December as possible without hearing Wham!\u2019s Last Christmas<\/em> \u2013 the game has become increasingly fraught. Everyone seems to have a cover of Last Christmas<\/em> in 2023, from Alanis (don\u2019t bother) to The Wiggles (a gateway drug) trying their hand at it.<\/p>\n

But the best new version comes from US rap duo Coco and Clair Clair. Typically breathy and lackadaisical and cool, it\u2019s the sort of Christmas mood we could all use right now. Put it on repeat and drift towards the metaphorical air-conditioning.<\/p>\n

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