Link: https://bootiemashup.com/mix-tapes/a-very-bootie-christmas-3/5-divide-kreate-i-feel-santa
This is from the mid-2000s Santastic series of compilations, all containing mashups of Christmas carols with popular songs. Specifically, this is from the fifth album. I'll let it introduce itself:
'Santastic' is the annual free mp3 holiday album series, where a selection of mashup artists, remixers and bands explores the crazier, hipper, nerdier, funkier, punkier, hip-hoppier, dancier side of the holidays by mixing, mashing, fragmenting, subverting, inverting, appropriating, covering and completely blowing up the classics of the season.
That paragraph is a period piece. It is a product of a very specific time online, one where people earnestly opined about the transformative future of "Web 2.0" and "remix culture" and the future being one of boundless techno-optimism, and there was still Internet novelty value in the idea of a mashup, even though the basic idea had existed offline for quite some time. Then all the optimism died, techno- and otherwise; by the mid-2010s churn-y music blogs were pumping out two posts per day on whatever mashup just went mildly viral; then by the late 2010s the world's SilvaGunners were pumping out dozens per hour.1 The deluge is so total that it's easy to forget how possible it is for linkrot to claim any individual track. For instance, you may have noticed I couldn't find an embeddable link today.2
Anyway, I could easily dip into the deluge to post mashups all 25 days of this series and more. I could even find 25 that are genuinely good. This would be one of them, pairing the iconic sequencer from Donna Summer's "I Feel Love" with the raunch of Clarence Carter's 1968 "Back Door Santa"3 to create a perhaps obvious thrill, but a thrill nevertheless.
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Wait, maybe that's optimistic again?
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which is not to say there isn't one, or might not be one tomorrow, or that if there is one tomorrow it'll be there a year from tomorrow. Everything is ephemera!
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BMI says, presumably not meaning to damn with faint praise, that it has been "covered and performed by Bon Jovi, Jet and the Black Crowes"!