Hans Pucket ⁠— I Don't Know What To Get You For Christmas (Do I Really Love You?)

First things first, I know nothing about music and this is the first song I have heard by Hans Pucket. BUT I do listen to a lot of christmas music, through choice, in the last two months of the year, and so I will be assessing this song on it’s qualities as a christmas song.

IDKWTGYFC (DIRLY) steers away from the “sincere belief in the magic of Christmas” themes that dominates the genre, and focuses on the universal practicalities. Online shopping time frames, appropriate gift choice, consumerist waste. All definitely relatable seasonal concerns. So ticks there. Also it’s actually about love, and that is very christmassy. May as well be a hallmark movie. Tick tick tick. But if you are a holiday skeptic this also won’t grate on you! There are no bells or choirs or christian imagery. It does not evoke winters in another hemisphere or reindeer dashing and prancing by the window. But it’s a little beautiful and relatable and realistic, and there’s a place for that this time of year.

I would pair it on a playlist with things like Phoebe Bridgers If We Make It Through December EP and the Beths excellent version of ‘Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas’.

The nice thing about Christmas music is there is something for everyone.

Review by avid Christmas Music listener, Leroy Beckett