Worst holiday song?
Bruce Springsteen can't sing and never was this more apparent than his ghastly rendition of "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town."
shareSpringsteen can't sing, Bob Seeger can't sing, Billy Joel can't sing, compose nor play the piano, so I support your choice, Angular. If Taylor Swift has done a Christmas song, I might pick that. Absent that, I select the first single released by Alvin and the Chipmonks aka Ross Bagdasarian. Don't remember the actual name, but the lyric began, "Christmas, Christmas time is here/Time for joy, and time for cheer" and went downhill from there. In this "group" we had singing mice in the music marketplace 20 years before the Disco version of The BeeGees.
shareTaylor Swift and Xmas music? Lovecraft himself couldn't dream up a more horrific pairing. My fingers won't stop trembling or I would enlist Google for proof Swift has indeed done the unthinkable and penned an Xmas song seismic enough in its awfulness to stir Cthulhu himself.
Springsteen can write -- I'll give him that. I just wish he'd left the singing to someone else.
Wham and "Last Christmas I Gave You My Heart"
Don't forget Paul McCartney's Wonderful Christmas Time. Yuck.
shareWhen I first heard the opening to this McCartney fiasco I thought it too creepy-sounding for the good cheer it was endeavoring to impart; it certainly would give film fans the world over nightmares if it was used, as Tiny Tim's "Tiptoe Through The Tulips," was used, in a horror movie.
shareSpringsteen can absolutely compose. Born in the USA? "I'm a cool rockin' Daddy in the USA"? Classic. To me, a move toward healing the wounds caused by the Vietnam War. But he cannot sing for shit, and the rant, "I have seen the future of rock and roll" presumably psycilocybin-induced rant/review in Rolling Stone, was never The Boss of any fucking thing, other than, perhaps, Passsic.
Why aren't they casting Taylor Swift in Ghost House horror movies?
Like Lady Gaga I think Taylor Swift would make an inspired addition to an AHS.
shareI can't disagree, though I haven't seen AHS in years, but the pipes that Gaga showed in her duet album with Tony Bennett, Cheek To Cheek, 2 years ago, blew freaking Switft out of the water for an adult audience, to whom Swift cannot appeal. As an audio sales professional, I played the Bennett/ Gaga album for a couple shopping for loudspeakers, then asked them if they could identify the singers. They could not. I said, "One is Tony Bennett. The other is Lady Gaga."
The woman in the couple said, "I can hear that. It is her [sic], but it doesn't sound like her [sic]." I replied, "That's because she's singing like an adult," and this woman answered, "You're right."