When it comes to Christmas songs, there’s a reason we never stray too far from Jingle Bells, it’s rock’n'roll step-brother Jingle Bell Rock and ye olde hymns like Silent Night.


Because whenever artists turn their considerable talents to original festive tunes, they butcher them like a Christmas ham. And leave us feeling as sick as when we scoff a drove’s worth of pig meat into our mouths each December 25.

So naturally when The Punch heard the news Grease stars Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta had joined forces for the first time in years to crank a new holiday season ballad, I Think You Might Like It, our chills weren’t multiplying in a good way. We reckon you should take a peek at it. Right now.

...If you’ve got a bucket next to you. There are few things worse than original, kitsch pop Christmas songs. But when you throw a reunion of aged pop stars trying to dance in a music video into the mix…

Well, let’s just say the PM got it partially right this morning when she said: “The end of the world is coming.”

Ms Gillard listed demonic hellbeasts, the carbon price and K-Pop as potential reasons for the apocalypse. Clearly she hadn’t seen this.

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    • Pattem says:

      01:50pm | 06/12/12

      From the Punch Team: “Because whenever artists turn their considerable talents to original festive tunes, they butcher them like a Christmas ham”.

      No, no no - U2s version of Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) is absolutely Awesome!

    • randomswill says:

      01:52pm | 06/12/12

      I realise this a charity thing, but please tell me they are taking the piss. Also, what is that thing on Travolta’s chin? No, not that… that bit of black astroturf.

    • Justme says:

      03:27pm | 06/12/12

      Pot scoured. Used to scrub off Livvie’s industrial strength red lipstick.

    • Elphaba says:

      01:56pm | 06/12/12

      I was killing myself laughing when I saw it this morning.  I loved FasterLouder’s caption on their article:

      “Christmas is cancelled!”

      I forwarded it to my boss, because some things are just too good to keep to yourself.  His emailed response back was ‘You’re fired.”

    • Philosopher says:

      03:28pm | 06/12/12

      ouch! Nasty boss, Elphaba. Do you have other jobs to apply for???
      How was your dream date? I hope it didn’t end with him being bitten by your dog.

    • Rose says:

      05:12pm | 06/12/12

      Do you blame him? There are some things you just cannot un-hear smile

    • Shane From Melbourne says:

      01:58pm | 06/12/12

      Kill it, kill it, kill the music before it breeds!!!!

    • Testfest says:

      01:59pm | 06/12/12

      What is seen, cannot be unseen.

      Why? Why did you do that to me, Punch?!

    • Joan says:

      02:05pm | 06/12/12

      As least Travolta and Newton-John still sing in tune have’n fun. Gillard a bad dead flat joke, yep just that - a bad dead flat joke . How embarrasing for PM of Australia - she should have got Emerson do vocal Christmas song to give her act some Punch .

    • Poita says:

      02:12pm | 06/12/12

      It’s a nice change from all the soft porn of 99% of our other “artists”.

      I’ve heard far, far worse. Switch on the radio, no, don’t, unless you’re an idiot and you like that crap. Or you want to hear Khe Sahn for the 99 trillionth time or some shitty chardonnay socialist morons on JJJ.

    • Philosopher says:

      03:31pm | 06/12/12

      I wish I had some Wa Wa Nee to show you. On the other hand, it may blast your brain into a coma, so perhaps it’s just as well.

    • Ripa says:

      02:13pm | 06/12/12

      Glucosamine really is amazing stuff.

    • ibast says:

      02:26pm | 06/12/12

      That is so bad it’s good.

    • redvixen says:

      03:32pm | 06/12/12

      No, it’s not.

    • Lucy says:

      02:32pm | 06/12/12

      Oh dear. This is truly awful. Don’t quite know what else to say.

    • iansand says:

      03:04pm | 06/12/12

      That is just so gosh darned perky, in a couple of senses of the word.

    • Knemon says:

      03:20pm | 06/12/12

      It’s better than Grease!

    • Haxton Waag says:

      03:29pm | 06/12/12

      I liked it. Guess that makes me a philistine ... but I have known that for quite some time.

    • ramases says:

      03:44pm | 06/12/12

      It takes a special type of person to go though 25 days of Xmas musac, everybody wishing you a Happy Xmas even when you know they actually hate your guts and watching those dweebs putting lights and decorations up all over their homes saying” look at me us are complete idiots.” without going into one’s shell and threatening to blow the next carol singer to hell if they open their bloody mouths.
      It takes a special kind of person to put up with the “sales” where the gullible are lured into shops where the prices have been inflated and then reduced to almost the original price and the smiling shop keepers and their minions being extra special nice but wishing we would all go away and just leave our money. Then theres the Xmas Special CD’s that come out by obscure people we have never heard of covering all the old obnoxious favourites and expecting us all to run out and buy a copy as its advertised adnausiam on TV without wanting to fire bomb every shop and store that has a Xmas decoration on it, fake snow on the windows when its 40c outside or plays bloody White Christmas at a decibel level that in later years sends one deaf.
        Yes it takes a special person but not being that person I will do irrevocable harm to the next moron that wishes me a Merry Xmas or tries to shove some inane Xmas object in my direction, or turns night into day with their monstrous parody of Xmas plastered over their whole house.
      Go away and take your pagan ritual with you, I don’t need it, I don’t want it and surprise surprise I loathe it. That feels better.

    • Mik says:

      04:08pm | 06/12/12

      If only Bex was still around.
      Heard that in Brisbane recently there was a Xmas choir comp where only non religious christmas carols could be sung.

    • marissa says:

      04:47pm | 06/12/12

      oh no, i feel so embarrassed for them. i couldn’t watch it.

    • Ben C says:

      05:19pm | 06/12/12

      Stopped it about a minute in. That was one minute too long.

 

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