You might be forgiven for thinking that this song is the most depressing Christmas song of all time, but I think it’s actually incredibly tongue in cheek. Sung in Mud’s trademark Elvis pastiche,...
In today’s little slice of Christmas advent joy, Shaken’ Stevens takes us, and a small child called Samantha, on a journey to Santaland. At first in the video it looks as though Samantha is...
Behind today’s advent calendar door lies surely the happiest and most uplifting of all Christmas songs… that’s right, it’s Boney M’s Mary’s Boy Child/Oh My Lord. Not only is it seemingly...
Feminist media darling Amy Schumer is in the news again this week for her feature in 2016’s Pirelli Calendar — the world-famous borderline pornographic calendar distributed to distinguished...
Today’s Global Comment advent calendar selection is especially notable for its video. Filmed in the West Bank and the Sinai desert, it manages to lay claim to at least some authenticity of...
In the spirit of advent surprise and joy (with extra emphasis on the surprise), today’s Global Comment advent calendar spot goes to a more obscure song selection: A Spaceman Came Travelling by...
On the surface Israel and Turkey have shared quite a bit in common as peripheral Middle Eastern countries. Neither have a majority Arab population, both are popular tourist destinations where one can...
Welcome to Global Comment's musical advent calendar! This year we thought we would treat you to an advent calendar with a difference - a classic Christmas song each day. When I was a child advent...
On Thanksgiving, I, like millions of other people across the US, sat at my Thanksgiving day table and promptly got into a fight with my conservative family members. Thanksgiving is one of the most...
California’s Silicon Valley has become almost a parody of itself — and definitely a pending referendum on late-stage capitalism. As in the tech bubble of the late 1990s, the entire Bay Area is...
