Comments on: I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus

I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus

chococat — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:32:00 -0800

Ya. Kind of a Norman Bates take on it.

By: csimpkins

csimpkins — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:36:46 -0800

I probably shouldn't have listened to this moments before going to bed...

By: The Great Big Mulp

The Great Big Mulp — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:22:16 -0800

Chococat, that's brilliant! I've always found this song to be kinda creepy in and of itself.

By: chococat

chococat — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:38:39 -0800

My daughter had two friends over after school today and I thought, "bonus!" because I figured I would only have my own 3 kids for the La La's...so I dragged them all down to the basement and explained the part that I wanted them to sing which, (I'm always amazed), they got right away.
But I wanted it fuller, and try explaining "double tracking" to a bunch of 9 year olds, when they just want to go back upstairs to play Rockband. Sheesh.
Amateurs.

By: Effigy2000

Effigy2000 — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 23:15:33 -0800

This version of the song has ruined the song for me for the rest of my life and, despite this, I love you for it chococat! This was awesome. I'm gonna freak out my in-laws with this when they arrive in a couple of days. Well done!

By: Corduroy

Corduroy — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 09:17:02 -0800

Yeah, I always thought of this as an already broken christmas song... so I don't know, maybe you should think about removing the challenge tag? Please be more thoughtful next time. [/sarcasm]

This is really great. The children chorus seals it for me. I'm imagining your song to this animation (wait until she tickles santa).

What a weird song.

By: umbú

umbú — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 10:38:40 -0800

Good lord, this is good and creepy. Great feel, as usual.

By: jtoth

jtoth — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 12:34:48 -0800

Woah! This is a lost Alice Cooper track right? I'm certainly gonna listen to this in the summer too.

By: self

self — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 20:12:37 -0800

So the protagonist is really being kissed and tickled by Santa, right? Isn't that how it works? Either way, it's great. I like the attenuation you give your voice during the creeping-down bit.

By: Karlos the Jackal

Karlos the Jackal — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 02:37:23 -0800

Ah ha ha ha ha this rules.

"Mother!"

By: chococat

chococat — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 09:51:50 -0800

So the protagonist is really being kissed and tickled by Santa, right? Isn't that how it works?

Heh. I guess I didn't follow that through to its logistical completion. I just thought the original song was strange enough, with the weird Oedipal/adultery situation of the kid not really knowing that Santa IS the dad...so I went a bit further and cast it with someone else who had some serious mother issues.
I was thinking more that "Mommy" is in his head freaking him out and the betrayal of her gettin' it on with Santa is too much for him; maybe it's imaginary, maybe not.
But if it's him doing stuff AS his mother (to Santa who's really his dad...) then ya, that's a whole other layer of twisted.

By: Kimothy

Kimothy — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:26:04 -0800

This is seriously creepy. And that animation doesn't help any, Corduroy!

Very nicely done.

By: malthas

malthas — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 11:30:21 -0800

This is the most seriously creepy thing I've heard in a while, and yet I'm also grateful for it! I've always thought this song was pretty creepy, and this just solidifies it even more as such in my mind. Very well done.

By: saulgoodman

saulgoodman — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 07:40:06 -0800

this is really cool chococat. everything about the production is just right, too. gonna make this a last minute addition to the iPod's christmas mix this year.

By: saulgoodman

saulgoodman — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 20:14:14 -0800

(btw, chococat--i think i'm detecting traces of influence from the andy summers' classic "mother"... are/were you by any chance a fan of the police?)

By: chococat

chococat — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 08:41:13 -0800

i think i'm detecting traces of influence from the andy summers' classic "mother"

Ya, that's in there for sure. And I think the "mother!" at the end is sort of a combo of Summers and Sylvester/Daffy Duck.
Someone mentioned Alice Cooper upthread...the song "Years Ago" was in my head also; I almost put a weird dissonant harpsichord thing on there.
I steal from everybody!

By: bryanjbusch

bryanjbusch — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 09:41:40 -0800

Thank you for fixing the world's worst Christmas song!

I was a teenager before I realized that some fathers dress up as Santa Claus, and by then it was too late. The song is about adultery, full stop.

But you fixed it. Bless you.

By: jtoth

jtoth — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 23:07:18 -0800

Did I mention how brilliant this is? I will most definitely buy an album of songs like this.

Loves it!!!