{"id":4700,"date":"2016-11-30T08:00:22","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T16:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=4700"},"modified":"2016-12-12T11:36:36","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T19:36:36","slug":"modern-holiday-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/modern-holiday-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern Holiday Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cChristmas Lights\u201d by Coldplay will always be my favorite Christmas song. It isn\u2019t cheerful, but it gives a feeling of hope that is unmatched in any Christmas song. \u201cChristmas Lights\u201d acknowledges that things aren\u2019t always perfect and cheery in the holiday season, but there\u2019s always hope.<br \/>\n-Ashton Newton<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Christmas Song (Merry Christmas To You)\u201d sung by Nat King Cole has always<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernjournal\/files\/2016\/11\/coldplay-christmas-colorcoldplay.com_-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"coldplay-christmas-colorcoldplay-com\" class=\" wp-image-4728 alignright\" height=\"346\" width=\"346\" \/> been the quintessential holiday song for me. A tradition my mom and I have is that when we decorate our Christmas tree with ornaments and lights, we play Nat King Cole\u2019s holiday album on the radio. Obviously, it\u2019s a song that some people may consider to be overdone due to how many different artists have covered it, but the mellow tone and instrumental background of this particular version has always had a huge impact for me. Whenever I hear it, I always think of being at home with my mom in our living room and how happy that makes me.<br \/>\n-Elissa Sorenson<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeppermint Winter\u201d by Owl City isn\u2019t a classic, by any means. However, it captures the childhood sweetness of the Christmas season while the melody leaves me slightly melancholy. Without a hint of romance, \u201cPeppermint Winter\u201d captures the levity and beauty of a white Christmas.<br \/>\n-Stephanie Blair<\/p>\n<p>As a person with very little interest in stale Christmas classics, I was ecstatic when I heard that John Roderick (of The Long Winters fame) and Jonathan Coulton (of Jonathan Coulton fame) were collaborating on an album of original Christmas songs (and one Hanukkah song.)<br \/>\nOne Christmas at a Time (2012) is a wonderfully original ten-track album for the holiday season. The songs inside are just as funny and as they are touching, and sometimes downright strange If you\u2019re looking for a refreshing take on the season I cannot recommend these 9 Christmas songs (and one Hanukkah song) enough.<br \/>\n&#8211; Darien Campo<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a sucker for holiday music, so it&#8217;s difficult for me to just pick one song as my favorite. I enjoy most. But this year, I&#8217;ve been listening to Frank Sinatra\u2019s, \u201cI\u2019ll Be Home For Christmas,\u201d a lot. His voice is soft, but filled with longing and tenderness. His low, quiet extended notes to the final letter of the words,\u201cdreams,\u201d and, \u201cgleams,\u201d keeps you yearning for something you can&#8217;t quite put your finger on. Although this song can seem melancholy, it accurately performs the feeling of longing during the holidays.<br \/>\n-Paige Scofield<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cChristmas Lights\u201d by Coldplay will always be my favorite Christmas song. It isn\u2019t cheerful, but it gives a feeling of hope that is unmatched in any Christmas song. \u201cChristmas Lights\u201d acknowledges that things aren\u2019t always perfect and cheery in the holiday season, but there\u2019s always hope. -Ashton Newton \u201cThe Christmas Song (Merry Christmas To You)\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":937,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/937"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}