{"id":32638,"date":"2021-11-10T01:49:22","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T08:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/?p=32638"},"modified":"2021-11-09T21:57:49","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T04:57:49","slug":"teddy-swims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/teddy-swims\/","title":{"rendered":"This Christmas by Teddy Swims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Teddy Swims released his cover of This <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> and, like most songs he covers, his voice carries the day:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HIigW29G3JA\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>He looks like <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Santa<\/a>. Well, kinda sorta if you squint and hold your mouth just right. But &#8211; oh! &#8211; the sound.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past few years Teddy Swims has captured the ears of millions through his YouTube covers of classics by Marvin Gaye, Billie Eilish and Shania Twain.<\/p>\n<p>His music has also spurred reaction videos on YouTube of people blown away by the sound of his voice.<\/p>\n<p>Born Jaten Dimsdale in Atlanta, Swims has garnered a flock of followers through his activism on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout his entire life, Swims says he was told he had a voice that he needed to share with the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor my whole life, this is all I wanted was to be somebody with something to say,\u201d he says. \u201cWe&#8217;re trying to do something so much bigger than us. And it&#8217;s not about me. It&#8217;s never gonna be about me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That mindset came from his grandfather, who was a Pentecostal preacher, Swims says. His grandfather\u2019s teachings are at the \u201ccore of everything\u201d he does.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe&#8217;s put like a covering over our entire family of work ethic, of morality, of just how to be a person and how to be who you stand for,\u201d Swims says. \u201cHe&#8217;s never been a hypocrite. You know, that man, when he was alive, was the real, real deal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now he&#8217;s covering <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> with an EP due out on November 26th.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChristmas truly is and has always been the most wonderful time of the year! A time regardless of differences or distance where we all come together and celebrate <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/sneaking-christmas\/\">love<\/a> and togetherness! <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> songs are truly timeless and never get old!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teddy Swims released his cover of This Christmas and, like most songs he covers, his voice carries the day: He looks like Santa. Well, kinda sorta if you squint and hold your mouth just right. But &#8211; oh! &#8211; the sound. Over the past few years Teddy Swims has captured the ears of millions through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":32639,"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":30,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas-music","category-christmas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32638","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}