{"id":26119,"date":"2018-10-05T20:45:58","date_gmt":"2018-10-06T02:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/?p=26119"},"modified":"2018-10-05T20:36:17","modified_gmt":"2018-10-06T02:36:17","slug":"scary-and-merry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/scary-and-merry\/","title":{"rendered":"Scary and Merry from Pentatonix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scary and merry is the theme of the first single to drop from the newest <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> album coming out soon from Pentatonix. &#8220;Making Christmas&#8221; is a brilliant theme from the now classic film <em>Nightmare Before <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a><\/em>. Coincidentally, that movie celebrates its 25th anniversary this year and the song, of course, is a delightful and frightful mix of both <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/sneaking-christmas\/\">Halloween<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a>. Watch:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Th_j7RUu2vM\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Pentatonix, who has made the hottest selling albums of this century (so far), seems to release a new <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> album every two years. <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> has been very good to them.<\/p>\n<p>But to be honest, Pentatonix has also been very good for <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> music. Their tight a capella performances are inventive and catchy. Fans of all ages appreciate their skills and great vocal efforts and have rewarded Pentatonix with three #1 selling <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> albums in the last six years.<\/p>\n<p>It is expected their new album, titled <em><a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> is Here<\/em>, will be just as popular.<\/p>\n<p>The merging themes of <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/the-connection-between-halloween-and-christmas\/\"><strong>Halloween and Christmas<\/strong><\/a> are not just a trend of the past 25 years either, despite the cultural success of <em>Nightmare Before <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a><\/em>. While <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/sneaking-christmas\/\">Halloween<\/a> in the minds of many is associated with terror and horror the same too can be said of the ancient figure of Father <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> and Krampus.<\/p>\n<p>The truth, of course, is that <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/sneaking-christmas\/\">Halloween<\/a> is not really about frightmares. It is actually a tradition born of <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/sneaking-christmas\/\">love<\/a> and honor &#8212; for the dead. Known as All Saints Day in many countries, <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/sneaking-christmas\/\">Halloween<\/a> borrows the theme of the dead and blends it with traditions of costumes and neighborly visits known as mumming.<\/p>\n<p>Mumming, in places where it was commonly practiced, is actually a tradition of the <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> season.<\/p>\n<p>That makes the full circle co-celebration of <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/sneaking-christmas\/\">Halloween<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> together so much fun &#8212; and, as showcased by both <em>Nightmare Before <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a><\/em> and Pentatonix &#8212; so creative.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mmc-220a5.kxcdn.com\/x\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/pent2018.jpg\" alt=\"Pentatonix\" width=\"636\" height=\"421\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmc-220a5.kxcdn.com\/x\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/pent2018.jpg 636w, https:\/\/mmc-220a5.kxcdn.com\/x\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/pent2018-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scary and merry is the theme of the first single to drop from the newest Christmas album coming out soon from Pentatonix. &#8220;Making Christmas&#8221; is a brilliant theme from the now classic film Nightmare Before Christmas. Coincidentally, that movie celebrates its 25th anniversary this year and the song, of course, is a delightful and frightful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":26121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","iawp_total_views":22,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[693,156],"class_list":["post-26119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas-music","category-christmas-news","tag-making-christmas","tag-pentatonix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}