They Made A Christmas Album?- Advent 2018: Day 21 (NSFW)

Today I'm featuring another artist who technically shouldn't be on this list. I'm talking about the Gagaloo herself, Lady Gaga. 

Lady Gaga is one of the biggest things to hit music is quite some time. Her string of hits and her recent 2018 acting debut in A Star Is Born has made the pop singer a household name. The artist is known mostly for techno heavy songs. But in 2012, Lady Gaga's dream came true when she got to record a jazz song with her idol, Tony Bennett. 

The song was such a critical success and great fun for the two artists, that over the period of 2013-early 2015, Gaga focused on swing and jazz music, doing a full album with Tony Bennett. At the 2014 Rockerfeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting, the duo performed White Christmas as a promotional tie-in to their album Cheek to Cheek.

 While the Irving Berlin hit was not on the jazz album, Lady Gaga and Bennett's version of the song was released in iTunes and other digital medias and did quite well. So technically, with that song, I shouldn't have Lady Gaga on an Advent featuring artists not known for Christmas music. While she might be known for doing a song with the legendary Tony Bennett, Lady Gaga isn't an artist you think of doing holiday tunes solo--- until now!

(First of all, there was a Lady Gaga Thanksgiving Special on NBC around 2009. Gaga sang White Christmas on the hour long special and it was released on a 'holiday' CD based on the event. However, that was the only true Christmas song on the special and that version of the song has kinda become lost in the shuffle of other more well known versions, such as the artist's duet with Bennett.)

Let's go back to 2007. The social media personality Perez Hilton debuted the recording Christmas Tree exclusively on his website. Soon the song was released on iTunes and Spotify. Recorded with the Parisian DJ, Space Cowboy, Christmas Tree is a new, highly-sexualized update of Deck The Halls. 

The song became a holiday time staple of clubs and stores such as Forever21 and A&F have added the tune to their holiday playlists. The later being a move that has sparked small doses of uproar from shoppers who feel it inappropriate for play in public shopping areas. 

And thus the NSFW tag on today's post. There's no four letter words in the song. But there is tons and I mean tons of innuendo in this song. Definitely not something you should play while at work or in front or younger Gaga fans. 

Let it be said, you've been warned. Enjoy...