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Weekly Music Video

Today is New Year's Eve, so this week's video is New Year themed! It's What Are You Doing New Year's Eve by Christina Aguilera.

It's a live performance of the song (recorded at the Eiffel Tower in Paris), which is part of Christina's new Christmas special Christina Aguilera: Christmas in Paris. It marks the 25th anniversary of her first holiday album My Kind of Christmas and consists of a concert film and a live album. The film was shown in American cinemas earlier in December (and was also shown in the UK) and the album was released on 14th December.

Two singles have been released so far- a cover of My Favorite Things from the classic musical The Sound of Music on 26th November and Someday at Christmas on 12th December.

What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? is a classic song that was written by American songwriter Frank Loesser (also known for writing for Broadway musicals and composing the winter themed song Baby, It's Cold Outside, which is often sung and played at Christmas) in 1947. 

It was originally recorded by American singer Margaret Whiting that same year and has been recorded by many other artists, including R'n'B group The Orioles in December 1949, Ella Fitzgerald in 1960, Johnny Mathis in 1969 and Donny Osmond in 1976.

Christina's performance was uploaded on 27th December. What Are You Doing New Year's Eve is a jazzy song and her voice suits it.

 


 

For more on the Christmas special, visit my post Christmas Entertainment 2!: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2025/12/christmas-entertainment-2.html

 

Happy New Year! Wishing everyone a great start to 2026 and great year ahead. :)  

 

P.S. It truly feels like the end of an era with MTV shutting their music channels down here in the UK today (31st Dec). Several other music channels including The Box and Kiss already closed back in July 2024 and I wrote a little about it back then. Also, I recently referenced the fact that that there aren't many music channels left in my Christmas Entertainment! post (when mentioning Wham's Last Christmas video often being shown on them).

The channels that have gone include MTV Music, Club MTV and MTV 90s. As somone who grew up with music channels, it sad to see them go. Although I ofen watch videos on YouTube, it's just not the same. We have a few left on Sky now (such as Clubland TV and the NOW channels but I wonder how long they'll last. Anyone else who still watched the music channels? :)

 

For more New Year themed videos, check out these posts:

My fave singer Mariah Carey's version of the classic NYE song Auld Lang Syne: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2011/12/happy-new-year.html

Pia Mia- Nye (from her 2021 EP Christmas: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2023/12/weekly-music-video_27.html

Katy Perry- NO TEARS FOR NEW YEAR'S (from her 2024 album 1432; deluxe edition): https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2025/01/weekly-music-video.html

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