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The holidays are usually about jolly tunes and optimism, but there's a specific (necessary) corner for sad Christmas songs - especially this year. I'm talking about Elvis Presley's "Blue Christmas," The Carpenters' "Merry Christmas Darling," and, of course, Joni Mitchell's "River." The opposite of all those "songs of joy and peace," Mitchell's nearly 50-year-old track continues to make its mark on mainstream media and is, perhaps, the most relevant holiday tune we have in 2020.
If you feel like you've heard "River" more than ever in the last year or so, there's a reason. Netflix brought the song into a new spotlight with Ben Platt's haunting Politician rendition and then again with a more hopeful reading by Austin Abrams on Dash & Lily. Even more recently, Olivia Rodrigo covered the track for High School Musical: The Musical: The Series's holiday special. They certainly weren't the...
The holidays are usually about jolly tunes and optimism, but there's a specific (necessary) corner for sad Christmas songs - especially this year. I'm talking about Elvis Presley's "Blue Christmas," The Carpenters' "Merry Christmas Darling," and, of course, Joni Mitchell's "River." The opposite of all those "songs of joy and peace," Mitchell's nearly 50-year-old track continues to make its mark on mainstream media and is, perhaps, the most relevant holiday tune we have in 2020.
If you feel like you've heard "River" more than ever in the last year or so, there's a reason. Netflix brought the song into a new spotlight with Ben Platt's haunting Politician rendition and then again with a more hopeful reading by Austin Abrams on Dash & Lily. Even more recently, Olivia Rodrigo covered the track for High School Musical: The Musical: The Series's holiday special. They certainly weren't the...
- 12/22/2020
- by Karenna Meredith
- Popsugar.com
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