Here's how to write an original holiday single and not ruin Christmas in the process, according to singers, songwriters, and producers
Landing on an original perennial holiday hit can be like hitting the jackpot in more ways than one: “For us producers and songwriters, they call a Christmas album a 401.”Landing on an original perennial holiday hit can be like hitting the jackpot in more ways than one: “For us producers and songwriters, they call a Christmas album a 401.”In the canon of Christmas music, the standards loom large: time-tested songs that listeners already love and know by heart.
Ahead of this year’s “Jingle Bells” season, Vulture spoke to Stone and seven other singers, songwriters, and producers who have created new Christmas tracks over the past 25 years about the particular art and hardships of original Christmas songwriting. Here are, according to them, the 11 rules for writing an original holiday single and not ruining Christmas in the process.Christmas is as much about family traditions as it is about fervent preparation and commerce.
in the recording studio. AJ McLean says the Backstreet Boys initially wanted to record their album somewhere snowy, but when they couldn’t find anywhere that worked, they brought the Christmas spirit to their California studio instead, outfitting it with a tree and stockings; they even had a white-elephant gift exchange. “We just tried to keep ourselves in the holiday spirit even though it was 95 degrees outside and sunny,” he says.
Some of the best Christmas songs began apart from the holiday. “Christmas in Harlem” was one of the many beats Hit-Boy sent West when he was trying to get onin 2010. “I just didn’t picture a Christmas song on that beat,” says the hip-hop producer, who went on to work with Drake and Beyoncé. “I looked at that beat as some, like, Biz Markie, fun, witty type of song.
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