It's Called SILENT Night

A week or so ago, we watched the Christmas at Rockefeller Center Tree Lighting show on NBC... it was definitely a mixed bag of musical performances...

Goose-bump inducing awesome (Josh Groban)
Quite Good (Carrie Underwood)
Mondo Cheesy (High School Musical's Ashley Tisdale)
Bit Senile (Tony Bennett... We love him... but sorry, just not a good night!)
... and Tad Inappropriate (Celine Dion capping the show off with her cover version of Heart's Alone)

Now there were some performances that we fast-forwarded thru (bo-RING)... but this was such a wreck we were simply glued...

I generally don't like to go too negative here ... but at times like this, I am reminded of this exchange from Sex and the City:

Stanford: Before I tell you, you have to promise not to judge.
Carrie: Do I judge?
Stanford: We all judge. That's our hobby. Some people do arts and crafts... we judge.

Without further ado... country artist (and just nominated today for a Best New Artist Grammy) Taylor Swift  "singing" Silent Night:

Ooooooouchie!   Is it "sleep in heavenly peace" or "wake the dead"!?!?   And it's pretty much a dead heat between which is more hideous...  the singing or the mangling arrangement.

Now I could be wrong.  When searching for this ... there were folks who thought it was... (a) awesome, (b) amazing, (c) cute, and (d) gr8!!!!

So give me your best Randy, Paula, or Simon... what do you think?!

Just a bit pitchy... did she "make it her own"... or, do my ears not deceive me and we officially cyber-charger Ms. Swift for assault and battery on a holiday classic?

Comments

[Scott C]

I say charge her for first degree murder, and take away her guitar.

[Jeff]

I think the nicest thing I can say about that is that I didn't think it was awful. ;-) For some reason I didn't mind the reworking of the melody... which is inconsistent for me, since I just heard Barbra Streisand's version of "My Favorite Things" on the radio the other day and when she goes off the melody, I was like, ugh, this has got to be the most self-indulgent thing EVER. But back to this "Silent Night," the singing was kind of blah.

[Scot]

Quite frankly - I think she sucked. She was lucky though, had I been there I might have chucked a snowball at her.
I saw bits and pieces of this show and wondered - did Nick Lachey sing or did he just stand around and look pretty? I remember when he used to sing and I actually liked his voice but these days he hardly ever sings anymore. Whats up with that?