To use the parlance of our times, it looks like Ms. Chante is “blowing up.” She’s on MTV Canada’s Diary and her new CD comes out in two days, though you can pre-order it on amazon.com if you can’t wait. I think the CD came out today in Canada though. She must be Canadian. Anyways, the only info on this version comes courtesy of wikipedia, which says her R&B version of “Last Christmas” was released in 2004 (and confirms my suspicions as to her nationality).




Keshia Chante – Last Christmas


In 1995 the Sailor Moon ladies released a holiday album, with this version of “Last Christmas” by Sailor Mars (T. Michie is her voice actor). The whole album is available for download here in .ogg format. The best part is their version of “When the Saints Go Marching In.”


Tomizawa Michie – Last Christmas


I don’t know anything about this, except that whoever made it tried really hard to make it danceable. Several interesting things in this one: 1) The singer starts to lose time during the chorus. I suspect it’s because he’s finally living the dream of singing “Last Christmas” for all the world to hear. 2) For some reason they omit all lyrics other than the chorus and the first part of the first verse. This is okay with me, as long as I get to hear the line, “Tell me baby, do you recognise me?” 3) Notice the wimp-out whispery way he says “twice shy.” It rules.


Countdown – Last Christmas