I'm not big on Christmas music. I change the radio when it comes on. I tolerate it with family and friends at holiday parties. I grin and bear it if I'm paid to perform it. The kitschy stuff can get me for a little bit but it starts to get (dare I say?) worshiped like the more sincere efforts and immune from laughter somehow. Cue Tammie Brown, the best entertainer to ever come out of RuPaul's Drag Race (your mileage may vary, as Tammie's character is intentionally kooky and she never steps out of character when she has an audience, even when she's walking around as Keith Glen Schubert), recording a sort-of music video for her new holiday song "Coal In Your Stockings." Tammie's music is a trip. It's designed to be performed live and get a reaction out of a nightclub audience. It's campy beyond belief.
It's also really well-written and very clever when you start to break it down. Tammie's not a great singer, but she is a great musician and entertainer and really sells it. It's very much like Bette Davis jokingly performing songs on talk shows in the 70s. I'm a bit obsessed. A new holiday classic worthy of a playlist with The Nightmare Before Christmas and Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics.