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Christmas Entertainment 2!

It's only 5 days till Christmas (seems to have come round quickly again!), so it's time for another festive themed post! Last year I wrote a post called Christmas Entertainment! You can see it here: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2024/12/christmas-entertainment.html

For 2025, I'm sharing more Christmas entertainment. It's a mixture of music and dance. :)

 

Music


Tobii- X Mas Love

Thai/Swiss rapper and R'n'B singer Tobii's X Mas Love was this week's Weekly Music Video. Originally released in December 2024, he brought out a new visualiser for the song last month.

Watch it here: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2025/12/weekly-music-video_17.html 

 

Christina Aguilera- Someday at Christmas

Christina Aguilera (one of my favourite singers) has just released a new Christmas special, to mark the 25th anniversary of her holiday album My Kind of Christmas (which came out in October 2000). It's called Christina Aguilera: Christmas in Paris and was recorded live in front of the Eiffel Tower, in front of an audience of just 250 guests. 

Some performances were also shot at the Crazy Horse (cabaret and strip club). Between songs, Christina reflects on love, motherhood, reinvention and her musical journey.

Side note: It was her birthday on 18th December, so Happy Belated Birthday, Christina! :)  

The concert film was shown in American theatres/cinemas on 14th December and will be shown again on 21st Dec. It will also be shown on American TV network CBS on 22nd December. It's accompanied by a live album (the soundtrack to the film).

The first single was a cover of My Favorite Things from the classic musical The Sound of Music, which was released on 26th November. (I featured it in a post last month; see below).

The album consists of 16 tracks, including the holiday classics Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, O Holy Night, Someday at Christmas and The Christmas Song, and Christina's own hits, debut single Genie In A Bottle and Lady Marmalade (with Lil' Kim, Mýa and P!NK).

Someday at Christmas is the 2nd single from Christmas in Paris and was released on 12th December. It was originally released by legendary American singer Stevie Wonder back in 1967 and was the title track from his 1st Christmas album (and 8th studio album). He also released a new version with American singer Andra Day in 2015.

I didn't know the song that well but it sounds good. Christina's voice suits it. 

 

 

Listen to Stevie Wonder's original Someday at Christmas here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujvLa6l4BhE

 

Plus, here is Christina's live performance of My Favorite Things, which I shared in my Christina Aguilera Live Performance post:  https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2025/11/christina-aguilera-live-performance.html

And here is the newest video, Christina and French singer Yseult's Ave Maria duet (premiered yesterday/19th Dec:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq2u9Cfn2B8

 

CHUNG HA- It's That Time of Year 

Last year Korean singer CHUNG HA/Chungha  (a former member of now disbanded K-pop girl I.O.I turned solo star) released the special Christmas digital single [Christmas Promises]. It consisted of the tracks Sleigh and There Goes Santa Claus!. I featured the music video for Sleigh in my Christmas Entertainment! post (see above).

This Christmas, CHUNG HA has brought out another special Christmas digital single called [Christmas Promises: Again]. It was released on 5th December and contains 4 tracks- new songs Christmas Again and It's That Time of Year, plus Sleigh and There Goes Santa Claus!. 

This is It's That Time of Year. It's an upbeat English language song, all about getting into the spirit of Christmas. This is a special clip video and was uploaded on 5th December. It features the lyrics onscreen. 

 

 

Also check out the audio for Christmas Again (a reflective ballad): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ33ZQ2VQyE

And check out last year's Christmas Entertainment! post to see the music video for Sleigh (plus a link to There Goes Santa Claus!): https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2024/12/christmas-entertainment.html

 

Listen to/download Christmas Promises Again here: https://ffm.to/chungha_christmas_promises_again 

 

Coco Jones- Skip My House

Last year American singer Coco Jones released the Christmas EP Coco By The Fire. I featured the video for the songs Santa Is Me/Call On Christmas as a Weekly Music Video last year (and in the Christmas Entertainment! post).

This year, she's released a brand-new Christmas song, Skip My House. It's a smooth R'n'B ballad about how Santa can skip her house this year because she already has everything she needs.

This is the audio and was uploaded on 7th November. If there's a music video in the future, I'll update this post. :) 

 


Also watch the video for Santa Is Me/Call On Christmas: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2024/12/weekly-music-video_18.html


Dance

 

TOBII - 'X MAS LOVE | MINIZIZE CHOREOGRAPHY

I've shared a lot of dance videos this year, particularly Dance in Public (dance covers performed in public places). One artist whose songs are popular in the cover dance world is rapper and singer Tobii. In December 2024 he released the single X Mas Love (and just uploaded a new visualiser this year; see above).

Last December, Thai dance studio MINIZIZE choreographed a dance to X Mas Love (the choreographer is Earth_prompen) and cover dance groups also did their own versions in 2024.

Here is the official MINIZIZE dance video (uploaded in December 2024), featuring dancers from the studio and Tobii himself! 


 

Tobii has also been uploading YouTube shorts of himself dancing to the song this December.

 

[CHRISTMAS IN PUBLIC] X Mas Love - Tobi & Last Christmas - Ariana Grande || UniG Crew Dance Cover

Finally, here is a dance cover of both X Mas Love and American singer Ariana Grande's cover of the classic Wham! song Last Christmas. 

Last Christmas was originally released in 1984 (the year I was born, lol) and has become a modern holiday classic. They always show the  music video on the music channels (or what's left of them nowadays!) every year.

Ariana covered it for her debut Christmas EP Christmas Kisses, which was released in December 2013. She went on to release a 2nd festive EP, Christmas & Chill in December 2015. I have that one and listen to it every Christmas! I've featured the songs on the blog in the past.

The dance covers are performed by UniG Crew Official. Their full name is Unique Galaxy Crew and they are a dance crew from HUBT University in Vietnam. The video was uploaded on Christmas Eve (24th Dec) 2024.

 


Listen to Ariana's Last Christmas here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYSWgsUQt1U 

And watch the video for the original Wham! version here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8gmARGvPlI 


Follow UniG at these links:

FB page: https://www.facebook.com/HUBTDanceCoverTEAM

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@unig_crew?_r=1&_t=ZS-91vmFbXFvl9

YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@UniGCrewOffical


Hope you enjoyed the post! Wishing you a Merry Christmas/Happy Festive Season! (Or hope you enjoy whatever festival you celebrate.) :)

 

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