This Christmas, things fall apart
posted by Drew | Tuesday, December 22, 2009 | 09:04:16 pm
Along with Wham’s “Last Christmas,” this sludgy, Don Was-produced sad-fest stands as one of the few Christmas songs I can stomach on repeat listens. While George Michael attempts to rise above holiday doldrums by giving his heart to someone special, Cristina, Ze Records' preeminent misfit princess, deadpans her way through them with brutal reality:
They’d killed a tree of ninety-seven years,
And smothered it in lights and silver tears.
They all got wrecked, they laughed too loud,
I started to feel queasy in the crowd,
I grabbed a cab back to my flat,
And wept a bit,
And fed the cat.
Merry Christmas, dammit.
[via Rooms With Brittle Views]
[Tags: groovy, xmas, ze]