Lyrically, that song speaks to me and things I’ve been through. But yet, it still has the spirit of the original. To me, that’s the most, of all the covers, that was really flipped. “Last Christmas,” the Wham! song, is a masterpiece as far as the music goes and how created it. In an interview with, Gwen described ‘Last Christmas” as a “masterpiece as far as music goes”: All in all, if you told me this was a bonus track on one of the She & Him Christmas albums featuring guest vox from Gwen, I’d believe you. Instead, her band adopts a vintage, creaky-vinyl doo-wop effect that makes the longing in the lyrics seem that much more bittersweet. Stefani’s take on the song’s shimmering-tinsel synths favors a more organic approach: no synths at all. Rolling Stone magazine called her version as: “Stefani’s take reimagines the 1984 single as an early Sixties girl group track, with the singer bolstered by strings and soaring background vocals.” The album debuted at #1 in the Billboard Top Holiday Albums chart. (Sounds of the Season: The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection, 2007)Īmerican singer and the lead vocalist of the band No Doubt Gwen Stefani covered ‘Last Christmas’ in her album You Make It Feel Like Christmas released on October 6, 2017. Listen to some of the cover versions of ‘Last Christmas’: Taylor Swift Last Christmas Lyrics: Oooh / Last Christmas I gave you my heart / But the very next day you gave it away / This year to save me from tears / I'll give it to someone special / Last Christmas I. Rap Allstars flipped it around in 1998, telling the faithless subject: No more games, yo, it’s time to move on. In 1995 Whigfield wrapped it in a high-street hip-hop beat. While nothing will beat the original Wham! version, here are some artists who have all given their own personal touch to “Last Christmas” and attempted to make the Christmas classic their own. An instant classic, Last Christmas has been covered regularly since its release, but none has matched the bruised sentimentality of the original. Still my favourite cover of Last Christmas!???? #Wham #LastChristmas #lastchristmasforuknumber1 #Christmas - Andrew Ridgeley December 4, 2019 Pasou varios anos da súa infancia en África, para volver máis tarde á súa terra natal.Saltou ao estrelato coa súa canción 'Saturday Night', que pasou a ser o maior hit do verán europeo de 1994, grazas ao que foi tocado repetidamente nas discotecas mediterráneas e que tiña unha letra que moitos aprenderon facilmente. 3, Mozart’s Divertimento in D major and Wham!’s Christmas classic. As we gear up for the holidays listening to the now-classic Wham! song “Last Christmas”, do you know that the song spawned several cover versions? Even big-name singers like Taylor Swift and Ariana Grande made their own versions of this iconic classic from George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley.Īndrew Ridgeley recently tweeted that his favorite cover of ‘Last Christmas’ is this Baroque cover version which is a mashup of Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto no.