Christmas came early thanks to Olivia Rodrigo.
Rodrigo has been keeping fans fed this year, touring her new album, you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love, but her packed schedule did not stop her from gifting fans a Christmas song.
Rodrigo released her first holiday song, “take me home (4 christmas)” on November 5. The Christmas bop pays homage to The Waitresses’ 1981 classic “Christmas Wrapping,” and some fans even took to social media to say the song reminded them of Robbie Williams’ “Candy.”
Regardless of the similar sounding tune, this holiday track is upbeat and sure to take over Christmas playlists this season.
The song tells the story of an anxious girlfriend hoping her boyfriend will take her home for the holidays. Rodrigo fantasizes about spending the holidays at his childhood home, having boozy brunches with his sister and charming the Christmas socks off his parents. Let’s be real, at the end of the day, isn’t the greatest Christmas gift making our mother-in-law absolutely obsessed with us?
Along with the cheeky carol, Rodrigo released a star-studded music video featuring Saturday Night Live’s Ben Marshall and Sex and the City’s Cynthia Nixon. Director Fiona Jane Burgess created a dreamscape for Rodrigo that felt like an idyllic holiday romantic comedy.
Marshall plays Rodrigo’s boyfriend that she wishes would man up and take her home for Christmas. After a night of partying, Rodrigo is cleaning the trashed apartment as Marshall sleeps. Rodrigo daydreams about the ultimate Christmas with Marshall's family. In the fantasy, Nixon plays Marshall’s mother, who adores Rodrigo.
Devoted fans might recall that Rodrigo is a massive fan of Sex and the City. She even said on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon that several songs from you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love are inspired by the tumultuous relationship between Miranda and Steve in Sex and the City. What a jolly full circle moment for Miranda herself to play Rodrigo’s dream mother-in-law.
It’s not out of the ordinary for pop stars to give fans a Christmas song, but they don’t always become staple songs that play as you decorate the Christmas tree. To name a few pop-girly holiday hits: Ariana Grande’s “Santa Tell Me,” Kelly Clarkson’s “Underneath the Tree” and arguably the most famous, Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You.” However, Rodrigo has thrown her own Santa hat into the ring, and it is sure to become a Christmas classic.