but the lyrics might have been too risqué for an ecclesiastical audience. “Given the songwriter’s rebellious nature, it shouldn’t be surprising that “Jingle Bells” has a bit of a rebel ...

The lyrics “go it while you’re young” in the final verse of the secular standard is hardly about a holy or silent night.” It also originally wasn’t called Jingle Bells. The history ...

Especially the really sad stuff about depression, addiction, grief, and poverty accompanied by cheery chimes and stupid little bells ... More like O Holy Hell. Literally anything performed ...

With "Wonderful Christmastime," Paul McCartney made one of the most beloved and most hated Christmas records of all time.

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Kendrick Lamar is reading the lyrics wondering why Thurl Ravenscroft ... and by shaking some bells on top of it we’re transformed into something absolutely magic. The song is fun, it’s a ...

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Or the spirit of a city that faced hell and kept running ... the New Orleans grunge rapper who’d penned lyrics about wandering. I been gone like where, where, where. Once adopted last April ...

The case against the song began as follows: "If there is a hell and they celebrate Christmas ... There are sleigh bells, a bassline that thumpity-thump-thumps like Frosty the Snowman and ...

One of the originals on the record, the Clarkson/Greg Kurstin co-write “Underneath the Tree,” has all the right elements: chiming sleigh bells, sound-bolstering backup singers, lyrics that ...