The Christmas season is officially upon us, and with it comes all the usual festive fanfare. If you celebrate the holiday, this likely includes buying last-minute gifts for your nearest and dearest, ...

Do you know what bobtails and wassailing are? We have experts explain the meaning of those weird Christmas carol lyrics. Many of our most popular holiday songs are from the 19th century, when ...

Whether or not you consider Wham!’s “Last Christmas” a gay song depends on how you see its lyrics and its creator. The 1984 Wham! song “Last Christmas” has become a regular holiday favorite among ...

“Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” cemented its place in the holiday song canon after it appeared in the 1944 MGM musical Meet Me in St. Louis, starring Judy Garland. Although the song seems ...

In late 2024, a TikTok post referred to the lyrics of the popular Christmas song "I'll Be Home for Christmas" as an example of the Mandela Effect, wherein people collectively misremember a fact or ...

Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra sing during the taping of "The Dean Martin Variety Show" circa 1967 in Hollywood, California. The list spans decades, beginning with 19th-century carols and leading into ...

Walker Hayes admits that re-tooling the lyrics to "Fancy Like" to be a Christmas song wasn't his idea, but he sure did jump at it. Sitting down with that same team once again reignited a passion that ...

The Beatles‘ Christmas songs don’t get as much attention as they should. The band produced quite a few Christmas songs while they were together and they subsequently made Yuletide classics as solo ...

Curious from birth, Fiona is a music writer, researcher, and cultural theorist based in the UK. She studied her Bachelor of Music in London, specializing in audiovisual practices, and progressed to a ...

It's true that "Jingle Bells" songwriter James Pierpont did not have Christmas in mind when he penned the tune — which does not mention the holiday in its lyrics — in the 1850s. However, widespread ...