Todayâs reviewer is Rachel Chapman! Rachel Chapman is a funny lady who lives with her cat, Lady Tom Hanks, in NYC. You can see her performing with her improv team Liam Got Coffee, which she came up with the name after Liam Hemsworthâs love of getting coffee. Rachel also runs the Tumblr âSaving Room For Catsâ, is best friends with Taylor Swift, and will someday be CEO of Disney! Rachelâs just a girl living in New York City but would rather be living in Tom Hanksâ heart.
Rachel Chapman: Wow! Wow! Wow! Iâm so so happy that Dylan asked me to be a part of this. Thereâs nothing I love more than Christmas. Itâs the greatest time of year and âAll I Want For Christmasâ is the best, so Iâm already going to be super picky.
Letâs get into it! First off, Iâll say what I loved! I absolutely loved all the Christmas lights. I feel like I took my eyeballs out and replaced them with magical twinkly Christmas lights. To quote Youâve Got Mail, putting up more twinkle lights is âa fine idea.â I am also in love with this cat.
Now, what I did not like about this cover was that it made me feel old. Right off the bat, I was an old lady asking why these kids were screaming at me and if they could turn that racket down.
Honestly, if youâre doing a cover, you have to make it your own. And I think Against The Currentâs take is just to be loud and shout at me a lot. Like when Mariah sings, âSanta wonât you bring me the one I really need,â itâs cute, sheâs having a fun convo with Santa, and theyâre LOLing. When Chrissy shouts it at me, I imagine Santa running away screaming, âPlease leave me alone, I used to be so jolly.â I mean maybe if you ask politely Santa will give you this guy for Christmas, but I would be so scared if I were him. Chrissyâs all cute with her Victoria Justice looks and the Iâm going to keep putting my hair behind my ear and not making direct eye contact at the camera thing, but then she opens her mouth and BAM sheâs all âGIVE ME A BOY, DAMN IT!!!!!âÂ
I know I would probably jam out to this if I was a teenager and be all like, âso fun,â but there was just nothing special. Also, a song should continually grow and get to a fun climax of sparkles. This cover was very one note, and that note was LOUD.
But letâs face it, I want to be invited to this super fun Christmas party! I want to be a hip cool teenager. Theyâre decorating a tree and doing eggnog from a beer bong. Iâm there! But of course weâre avoiding the idiot that walked underneath a ladder, heâs going to have a shitty year of bad luck. Sucks to be him! If I was at this party, Iâd be in the corner having the time of my life playing with the cat and covering myself in Christmas lights.
 I give this cover a 4 Christmas Lights out of 10 Christmas Lights. I smashed 6 lights out in my teen rage!!!!
Dylan: Against the Current, todayâs band, comes from a long line of punk bands with pretty front girl lead singers and forgettable everybody else. Of course, we canât forget No Doubt, as Gwen Stefani was one of my first big crushes. Paramore of course also falls into this category as well, with Simon & Garfunkel being another famous example (Youâre not fooling anybody, Garfunkel). The video at least relies almost entirely upon the lead singer, Chrissy, smizing at the camera for the entirety of the video, with various other moments of cuteness throughout. The rest of the band is made of nobodies that are all so obviously in love with Chrissy that itâs tremendously depressing.
The cover isnât bad. Itâs a pretty solid pop punk cover and with a pretty girl as their lead singer, the band could totally achieve commercial success. I had never heard of this young band, but they do hail from Poughkeepsie, where I went to college, so I think I feel pretty attuned to the local culture. One time I saw Third Eye Blind in concert at a local venue, so I feel pretty in touch still. Power chords galore, musically there isnât much to be impressed by here. Itâs a pretty standard A:B cover of pop to punk.
This cover feels like a Drake & Josh episode: something they would play at the end of a Disney show in a local talent show to win the huge cash prize! This cash prize would obviously get donated to the local dog shelter before a tiny Shi-tzu puppy ran up and jumped in Chrissyâs hands. Then Chrissy would look directly into the camera and say, âMerry Christmas, Everybody!â Iâm sure your 9 year old niece loves this band as much as she loves Green Day. My only gripe with it is about the current state of punk, which, as a white male who grew up in the suburbs and is currently wearing Sambas, is my birthright. For a cover about as punk as candy cigarettes, I guess itâs pretty tasty.
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