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Blogocentric Formulations #836222 added December 15, 2014 at 2:38pm Restrictions: None
Hear the baby Jesus crying ho ho ho
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"Another Christmas Song"
by Stephen Colbert
Before you laugh at the inclusion of a campy, humorous Stephen Colbert song on my list, I feel obligated to point out that this comedy special actually won him Grammy, so . The album first went on sale November 25, 2008 and was briefly #1 on the iTunes chart. However, this was also around the time Kanye West declared himself "the voice of this generation of this decade" and Stephen Colbert took it upon himself to enact Operation Humble Kanye in which he implored everyone watching his show, The Colbert Report, to download his album at the same time on the same day to bump Kanye's album down the charts. This eventually resulted in Colbert's album reaching #2 on the charts, but that still bumped Kanye down to #4 and Colbert declared the following day that Kanye had been officially humbled.
I love how campy and completely unapologetic this song is. I've mentioned before that I don't generally like the idea of artists just re-recording the same old songs over and over again; it starts to feel like a cash grab when someone is suddenly putting out their third Christmas CD with their very own second special edition of "Silent Night." So I have a profound appreciation for this song of Colbert's with it's shameless plugging and not-so-subtle jokes about it being a cash-grab. You've gotta respect a song that has lines like "my humble yule tide, dreamed up poolside, Christmas song" that encourages you to "log onto iTunes and pay to download 'em, PAY for another Christmas song."
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