Which Christmas or holiday song matches your…
From November 1 onward to New Year’s Day, we Americans are inundated with the background sounds of the most fantastic time of the yr.
For some, it’s fa-la-la-la f–ok off, with a quarter of retail workers citing holiday music as a source of psychic pressure and emotional harm.
Still, crippling carols and all, Christmas music is an enduring piece of our national panorama.
In the phrases of Post columnist Rich Lowry: “American tastes have drastically changed over the decades, yet our Christmas songbook has remained largely the same. With honorable exceptions — most notably Mariah Carey’s 1994 classic, “All I Want for Christmas Is You” — the most-played and most beloved Christmas songs date from the Thirties and the couple of many years after.”
In honor of the songbook of the season, we’re matching a Christmas anthem with each zodiac signal. Read on, hear loud, and be merry and vivid.
“Father Christmas” – The Kinks
Aries is punk rock power incarnate, popping out of the gate with an axe to grind, a fire to start, a sneer to share, and a mall Santa to tough up.
Kinks guitarist Dave Davies remembers of the song: “I love the humor of it, and the aggression and bitterness. I could see the faces of my parents when Christmas came around. They had to struggle to make ends meet. We kind of got what we needed, but there was something fake about the holiday.”
Humor and aggression? Calling out bull—t to the tune of Christmas bells? Unrepentant ram power.
“Christmas in Hollis” – Run DMC
Taurus guidelines the second home of materials items and earthly delights, and this banger tells the story of a park-roaming, wallet-finding good samaritan rewarded with a million in cold money, a heat xmas log, and a stomach full of macaroni and cheese. A Taurus poem.
“The Little Drummer Boy” – Frank Sinatra
Leave it to a Gemini to fail to convey a present for a new child demi-god and improvise with a drum solo. Pure mutability, pa rum pum pum pum.
Runner up for Gemini yuletide banger is Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” which inspires singing, twirling, and merry-making over reflection or sentiment. To add to the adaptable, bankable power of Gemini, according to Lee, Johnny Marks, the person behind the song “was Jewish and didn’t even believe in Christmas. He said he wrote it on the beach in New York [while watching] the pine trees swaying in the summer.”
“Last Christmas” – WHAM!
The late great George Michael was a Cancer king, and this Christmas banger is positively awash in those cardinal, emo waters. Still, lamenting a doomed love affair an complete yr later? Passive aggressively suggesting your ex had a soul of ice and was taking benefit of your compassionate nature and shoulder pad to cry on? Pure Cancer.
For additional evidence, see the video above, where our tender-hearted, feather-haired George could be seen brooding and ingesting, the dual tenants of a Cancer scorned.
“All I Want For Christmas Is You” – Mariah Carey
Leo is the signal of royalty, and HRH Mariah Carey is the uncontested Queen of Christmas.
While MC is herself an Aries, this basic sings to the spirit of the lion pleasure. Leo is a fixed fire signal that guidelines the center, demanding absolute allegiance and utter worship from their family members and acolytes. Very on model for a Leo to eschew presents and snow in exchange for the promised entirety of another particular person.
“White Christmas” – Bing Crosby
A holiday without blemish or upset? A covetable sort of Christmas for the purifying Virgo. Runner-up is “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” as Virgo is oxygenated by being underestimated — no song nor story encapsulates the spirit of the underdog, or under-reindeer if you’ll, like “Rudolph.” In the major arcana of the tarot, Virgo is represented by the Hermit who, like Rudolph, illuminates for others a means out and through.
“Happy Xmas (War Is Over)” – John Lennon & Yoko Ono
Mr. John Lennon, the most well-known Libra in musical historical past, singing an earnest anti-war duet/appeal for peace and inclusivity in troubled instances alongside his spouse and the Harlem Community Choir? Venus at its highest and most hope-filled expression.
Of selling peace Lennon mirrored, “Now I understand what you have to do: Put your political message across with a little honey.” Sweeten the onerous truths and softly sing your agenda? Libra to the hilt.
“River” – Joni Mitchell
Sounding like somebody dragged “Jingle Bells” down to the underworld, Scorpio sage Joni Mitchell sings the song of her people.
Moody, self-loathing, and lovely in the best way only funerals, turtlenecks, and frozen longing could be, “River” is the anti-Christmas Christmas song, the morose-over-merry anthem of all who love and lose — those unhappy f—s who are loneliest in a crowd and most secure plumbing the depths of the human psyche.
“Feliz Navidad” – José Feliciano
This song appears like a get together, and that’s actually the MO of every Sagittarius who ever raised a jug of wine or arrow to the sky. The repeating refrain, “Feliz Navidad / Próspero año y felicidad,” interprets to “Merry Christmas, a prosperous year and happiness,” an apropos sentiment for the signal of luck, lemons into lemonade, enlargement and luck.
“Fairy Tale of New York” – The Pogues
The late Shane MacGowan, lead singer of The Pogues, was a card-carrying Capricorn, having been born unto us on Christmas Day in 1957. This holiday basic, written from the reflective vantage of a down-on-his-luck lover spending Christmas Eve in a drunk tank, is refreshingly void of sentiment (just like a sea goat likes it) but still carries with it a hard-boiled high notice for hope.
“Do They Know It’s Christmas?” – Band Aid
Aquarius is the signal of group organizing and humanitarian duty. In sort, “Do They Know It’s Christmas” was conceived as an anthem of awareness to raise money for those affected by the Ethiopian famine of the mid-Nineteen Eighties.
Featuring unflinching footage and a solid of musicians, including Duran Duran, George Michael, Boy George, Bono, and Phil Collins, the song and accompanying video raised $10 million for the trigger in a single yr.
While Aquarius is pushed by revolutionary zeal and utopian beliefs, their crystal visions oft crack under the weight of mismanagement.
Case in level: a 1986 exposé in “Spin Magazine” reported that proceeds from “Do They Know It’s Christmas” as nicely as Geldof’s follow-up tasks “We Are the World” and Live Aid, might have unintentionally helped African dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam buy weapons from Russia. Yikes.
“I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday” – Wizzard
A Christmas basic introduced to life by a glam rock band who seem very a lot to be strung out on Santa, mainlining glitter and snorting cheer in this trippy video, “I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday,” completely fits the escapist tendencies, tinseled temperaments and sugar plum preferences of the Pisces ilk.
Astrologer Reda Wigle researches and irreverently reviews on planetary configurations and their impact on each zodiac signal. Her horoscopes combine historical past, poetry, popular culture, and personal expertise. To e-book a beginning chart or transit studying, go to her web site.
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