{"id":2478,"date":"2009-12-09T14:20:31","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T19:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=2478"},"modified":"2009-12-09T14:20:31","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T19:20:31","slug":"on-songs-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2478","title":{"rendered":"On Songs for Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

While I’ve joined the Rage Against the Machine For Christmas #1<\/a> group on Facebook — their goal is to get a fifteen year old song to be the Christmas number one in defiance of Simon Cowell’s X Factor<\/i> mutant — it looks like there’s a new competitor for Christmas number one.<\/p>\n

The Muppets<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Muppets’ cover of “Bohemian Rhapsody” is to be released as an iTunes single next week.<\/p>\n

And while friends of mine — Keith, I’m looking at you :-p — said that the Muppets’ “Bohemian Rhapsody” is the reason the Internet was invented, I really think that honor belongs to 2001: A Who Odyssey<\/i><\/a>, which is beyond awesome.<\/p>\n

That said, I do find the Muppets’ rendition of the Queen song to be enjoyable fun. Honestly, it’s probably the first time I’ve actually liked<\/i> the song.<\/p>\n

Yeah, not a Queen fan. *shrug*<\/p>\n

I don’t know that I, on this side of the pond, can derail Simon Cowell. I really have nothing against Simon Cowell or any of his shows, like American Idol<\/i>. I just wonder why there aren’t any mutants shooting freakin’ laser beams from their eyes on X Factor<\/i>, y’know? \ud83d\ude06<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While I’ve joined the Rage Against the Machine For Christmas #1 group on Facebook — their goal is to get a fifteen year old song to be the Christmas number one in defiance of Simon Cowell’s X Factor mutant — it looks like there’s a new competitor for Christmas number one. The Muppets. The Muppets’Continue reading “On Songs for Christmas”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}