Annie Zaleski

And, you know, it's funny.

She wrote that song with Greg Kirsten and who has a very interesting background.

He was in a 90s band called Gegita that very few people remember.

But he's done a lot of production for mainstream pop.

And they conjured kind of the Wallace Sound production style.

They kind of modernized it and kind of drew on that.

And, you know, basically, true love makes Christmas better.

I think it's one of those timeless songs that they went with the classics and decided to go for it.

I think her vocal performance too.

She is obviously a big fan of Mariah Carey's, but also some of the other powerful songwriters and powerful female vocalists through the years.

There are a lot of women who have sang Christmas songs, Darlene Love, obviously, the Ronettes.

She's in the long tradition of those very powerful women singing Christmas songs.

It's been around since the 40s, which feels like forever, I guess, depending on your perspective.

This was in Meet Me in St.

Louis, which is Judy Garland.

So it's very connected to her post Wizard of Oz.

And what was so fascinating about the song is that it almost didn't come to be.

So the songwriters were Ralph Blaine and Hugh Martin.

And basically, Hugh was writing the song and played it, just couldn't get the song to work, and he threw it in the trash.

And Ralph was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a second.