Day 55: Santa Baby

That's right, it's the Taylor Swift Christmas album reviews part 4 of 6! Finally we've escaped the bad songs! Unfortunately none of the rest qualify as "good", not by a long shot. At best they're "competent" with today's song, Santa Baby barely even qualifying as "passable".

I hope I'm not coming across as too critical of these songs. It just gets frustrating; I'm used to listening to Christmas music on repeat and usually I like them more as time goes on. Even if they start to drive me out of my mind I can find things about them to make fun of and keep me entertained. But the songs on this album, especially Santa Baby just don't have anything to offer me. It makes me question why people even like this song. It's a pretty weird song! Does anyone even like it? I've never heard someone say that it's their favorite Christmas song. I can't even listen any other versions because of the rules of the blog, so I have nothing to compare it to!

From what I recall, this song's value is usually derived from how people become uncomfortable when they hear people talking sexually to Santa. Everyone in the room remarks on how odd the song is and they all get closer together from it. I literally see no other reason to listen to this odd song, but maybe I'm just a Grinch.

For a while people thought this was real

This song isn't even really about Christmas! It's about a woman getting her sugar daddy to buy her a bunch of expensive shit for Christmas and using some strange Christmas themed innuendos. 

"Santa baby, so hurry down the chimney tonight"

hmmm. I wonder what she means by that.

"Come and trim my Christmas tree"

...what?

"With some decorations bought at Tiffany's"

Oh. That's...better? I guess? I was thinking of the other definition of trim.

I don't dislike Santa Baby on it's own. Done right it can be a pretty funny commentary on commercialism, but Taylor doe exactly nothing interesting in this version. She takes all the sexuality out of what's usually a very sexual song and adds nothing in it's place. I totally understand not wanting to do a sexual song but if that's the case then why not just cover a different Christmas song? There are so many to choose from and out of the four that Taylor decided to cover she chose Santa Baby? I just don't see why! Now I'm just confused and upset, in the true Christmas fashion!

See you tomorrow,
-C