After a few glasses of eggnog, even the shiest singer will join in on your family's annual holiday sing-along. Everyone has heard the classics and sung the rhymes since they were little kids, but that ...

“White Christmas” might be the best-selling Christmas song ever, but the song’s backstory has less to do with tidings of comfort and joy than it does with the tragedy of loss and war. Written by ...

A new round of debate over holiday traditions kicked off this week after former MSNBC host Joy Reid shared a video online that accuses the classic Christmas song “Jingle Bells” of having racist ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: We wrote this back in 2021, but with Christmas upon us again we felt like it was the perfect time to update it. There's nothing that brings the world together more than sharing opinions ...

Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You" is basically the anthem of the holiday season, but have her kids finally ...

Some Christmas music is classic; some is cringe-worthy. Today we celebrate the latter. This is the music you play when you want your guests to leave. Indeed, it is, and nothing sets the mood quite ...

Come December, everyone is bound to hear the seasonal staples, from Bing Crosby's "I'll Be Home for Christmas" and Brenda Lee's "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" to Paul McCartney's "Wonderful ...

I'm not a big fan of Christmas music, so I was happy to learn about and then listen to "enigmatic frontman and eclectic curator" David Byrne's recently posted playlist, "Christmas Music for People Who ...

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 ...

Black families often round out their holiday celebrations with singing. Depending on the amount of champagne or wine involved in get-togethers, the singing could begin with a half-forgotten rendition ...