00:00I should be playin' in the winter snow, but I'ma be under the mistletoe.
00:05Light me up, put me on top, let's falla-la-la-la-la-la-la-la.
00:10Light me up, put me on top, let's falla-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la.
00:14Merry Christmas to be the Lord of your life.
00:22You know you can see his head in your mind. Ooh!
00:25Hey, it's Nicki, and this is the best ever.
00:28The best ever.
00:29The best ever Christmas song.
00:34I know what you guys are thinking. You're probably like,
00:36I know Nicki, she's gonna pick, you know, the Jackson 5 Christmas album.
00:40Everything on there goes hard.
00:42Or, you know, Mariah Carey, you know, Nat King Cole,
00:46some great black artists who made an amazing Christmas song.
00:52Sorry to disappoint you, that's not what it's gonna be.
00:55My favorite Christmas song is by Lady Gaga,
00:58and it's her song, Christmas Tree,
01:00because she's all about trimming the fur, but it's maybe not the fur spelled F-I-R.
01:07Christmas songs are awesome.
01:09I love listening to them with my mom whenever I go home for Christmas.
01:14We jump in her car, drive around town, look at the Christmas lights in all the different neighborhoods,
01:21and we put on the radio, not a CD or an MP3 or a phone, the actual radio,
01:28put it on Magic 102, and we listen to Silent Night by The Temptations, and basically turn up in her car.
01:38I'm embarrassed to say this, I really am, but I love, love, love this song.
01:42It's called Mistletoe, and it's by Justin Bieber.
01:47Like, this is not one that you're gonna carol with your kids.
01:50This is not one that you're going to sing around the fireplace while you're roasting chestnuts with your grandparents.
01:56This is the Christmas song that you're, like, bumping in the club.
02:00What makes this song so amazing are, it's The Temptations, okay?
02:06Their voices, the cadences, how they come in, they echo each other.
02:13They're just, have you ever heard The Temptations?
02:17I'm not a Justin Bieber, uh, B-bet. What, what are the Bieber fans called?
02:21Belieber, that's what it is. I'm not like a Belieber.
02:24I don't follow Justin Bieber's career. I don't really care about Justin Bieber at all.
02:27But this song, Under the Mistletoe, girl, it is so good. It's catchy.
02:33It's got a little groove to it. And, you know, after a while, you get tired of hearing Mariah Carey every Christmas.
02:39Every Christmas. All I want for Christmas is you.
02:42Okay, girl, we get it. You know, that's a classic song. It's great.
02:46That's wonderful. I love a good Nat King Cole, um, you know, chestnuts roasting on the open fire.
02:52Um, classic Christmas. That's great. But if you want a little groove, a little, uh, uh, uh, na, na, na, na, na, Justin Bieber has it.
03:00Lady Gaga stuff is always cool. It's always really, it's almost always really raunchy, which is just fun for me.
03:07And the fact that, you know, you're combining fun, like, maybe NC-17 times with Christmas.
03:15It's just like, well, you know, what do you think they were doing after Baby It's Cold Outside?
03:19I'm just saying we might as well be upfront with it, right?
03:21Like, we all know. We know. You know. You know. You know.
03:26Not only is it just one of those very traditional, classic Christmas songs.
03:31They put that je ne sais quoi on it. They put that soul on it. It's like, they, they just took pats of butter and just, just ate it. And just marinated their voices with it. And just gave you some.
03:47No, I can't do it. I can't do it. I just love it. Like, I love the melody. I love the with you. Shardy with you. That's so like, it's so like urban and hip. It's not like old school. He called her a shardy. You know what I'm saying? It's cute.
04:04And, you know, it's just about love and Christmas. And it makes me feel like young and, I don't know, warm. It's cute. Oh, God. I'm embarrassed for liking this song. I really am.
04:14I wanted to like something more elevated, more sophisticated Christmas. And I realized, you know, who I want to be and who I am as a person who likes Christmas music is not, not necessarily matching up.
04:29It feels like jingle bells and snowfall and, um, you smell Christmas in the song. How can you take a classic song and then turn it into, to gold and to platinum? Just add the temptations.
04:58What's your favorite song for Christmas? Let me know in the comments below. Don't forget to like, share, and follow our page. We make these videos every Monday, so we'll see you next week. Bye.
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