Your family's own Christmas song, playing while the wrapping paper hits the floor.
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By December 25th everyone has heard Mariah four hundred times and there is nothing left to say about jingling bells. What nobody has is a Christmas song about their own family: this year specifically, the people around this table, the disaster with the oven, the cousin who moved away and made it back.
It works as a gift for one person and it works as a thing you play for the whole room. Some families put it on while the presents are opened and then find themselves playing it again the next December, which is when it quietly becomes a tradition.
The year in review
The move, the new baby, the job, the loss, the running joke of the year. A Christmas song about what actually happened.
The family traditions
The rules nobody voted on. Who carves, who fights over the remote, which ornament always goes on last.
Christmas apart
For the ones who could not travel this year. A song that gets to the table even when they cannot.
Merry Christmas from all of us. La Ritournelle turned this whole ridiculous year into a Christmas song, including the oven incident. Press play before anyone opens anything.
Name: the Callaghan family. Bond: parents, three kids, one new grandchild. Occasion: Christmas. Tone: festive and warm. Anecdote: everyone moved house in the same six months and nobody has unpacked, to adapt with a real memory. Delivery: played on Christmas morning before presents. Indicative example, exact lyrics not promised.
Name: the Brooks family. Bond: four siblings and their parents. Occasion: Christmas. Tone: funny and chaotic. Anecdote: Dad has burnt the turkey three years running and is not allowed near the oven, to adapt with a real memory. Delivery: dropped in the family group chat on Christmas Eve. Indicative example, exact lyrics not promised.
Name: Aunt Fiona. Bond: aunt, working overseas this December. Occasion: Christmas. Tone: quiet and nostalgic. Anecdote: she has hung the same crooked star on the tree since 1994 and this year someone else has to, to adapt with a real memory. Delivery: sent to play at her time zone. Indicative example, exact lyrics not promised.
Who is at the table, what happened this year, the traditions, and the tone you want on the day.
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Play it Christmas morning, drop it in the family chat, or wrap the link in an envelope.
Yes. Minutes, not days. Write the brief tonight and it is ready to play tomorrow morning.
That is where it works best. Put everyone's names and one detail each in the brief and it becomes the thing you all listen to together, which is rare for a gift.
Yes. Tell us plainly what happened, including who is missing. A Christmas song can be honest and still be warm. Pretending the year was fine is what makes those songs unbearable.
Only if you want it to. Ask for full sleigh bell treatment, or ask for something folky and quiet with no seasonal furniture at all. You pick in the brief.
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