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Christmas es el séptimo álbum de estudio lanzado por el cantante canadiense Michael Bublé. El álbum fue lanzado el 21 de octubre de 2011 en Irlanda, el 24 de octubre de 2011 en el Reino Unido y el 25 de octubre de 2011 en los Estados Unidos. En la semana que terminó el 10 de diciembre de 2011, Christmas subió al número 1 en la lista de ventas del álbum Billboard 200, convirtiéndose en el tercer top de la lista de Bublé después de Call Me Irresponsible de 2007 y Crazy Love de 2009, y pasando cinco semanas en el número 1. El álbum También ganó un Premio Juno al Álbum del Año, convirtiéndolo en el primer álbum de vacaciones en ganar el premio. El álbum fue relanzado el 26 de noviembre de 2012, que contiene cuatro pistas adicionales, incluida una nueva grabación de "The Christmas Song". Bublé también lanzó una versión reelaborada de "White Christmas", esta vez con Bing Crosby, como single. Esta versión se estrenó en el especial de televisión de Michael NBC, Home for the Holidays, el 10 de diciembre de 2012
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Men at Work, Ex-East 17 singer Brian Harvey and A Flock of Seagulls: three of a tiny handful of acts technically active in 2011 not releasing a Christmas album this year. For the indie kids there’s Emmy the Great and Tim Wheeler, or Smith & Burrows’ Funny Looking Angels record; for the tweenies, Justin Bieber; for those whose mistletoe-and-wine musical preferences are softer-of-centre than a gooey Quality Street, Joe McElderry has a festive disc on the shelves.
But for the mums basting the turkey and supping the bucks fizz? Surely this set, collecting 15 festive cuts from Canadian crooner Michael Bublé, is aimed squarely at that market. An easy gift from husbands, children, friends and co-workers alike, the imaginatively titled Christmas ticks boxes like it's stamping passports at border control: superbly efficiently, but with the bare minimum of personality expressed at each brief encounter.
Bublé is, on his day, a great vocalist – smooth and steady, his lines wrap around these familiar pieces like fine ribbon around a promisingly shaped gift plucked from under the tree. And he’s backed by perfectly competent musicians (sometimes brassy, sometimes reserved) and joined by a handful of guest vocalists: among these, The Puppini Sisters on Jingle Bells, and Shania Twain on White Christmas. But it’s a predictable programme that’s presented, atop which Bublé does enough, although he sounds as if he’s got more to give if the material pushed him to do so. It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas, Santa Baby, and I’ll Be Home for Christmas are laidback to the point of being perfectly horizontal, conjuring images of the singer clicking his fingers beside a fireplace, stockings and twinkling lights around him.
Better are the energised Cold December Night (the sole original) and his version of Phil Spector’s Christmas (Baby Please Come Home): here, he’s kicking up the powder, tossing snowballs and getting into the spirit (and possibly outside of a few, too). Mariah Carey’s All I Want for Christmas Is You is slowed to a funereal pace – quite the twist on the bouncy original – and he manages to put his mark on Jingle Bells, albeit not in a fashion superior to the million-selling Bing Crosby version from 1943: his take is rather too cornball for its own good. Silent Night, backed by a Libera-lite children’s choir, is pretty but doesn’t linger in the memory: it feels as if it was made to accompany the credits of a sit-com’s Christmas special.
What more needs saying? Fans already know they’re going to love this; those unmoved by Bublé in the past, won’t. He does the classics to an accomplished standard – some perfunctory and forgettable, some bubbling deliciously – and everything is professionally packaged. Boxes: well and truly ticked beneath the wrapping.
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