Merry Christmas, Internet.
Y’know, I’ve been wanting to do something like this — record a song for you all, as a Christmas present — for a while now (at least since before last Christmas). But being the lazy procrastinator that I am, I just never found the time to do it, or couldn’t figure out the best way to go about it, or couldn’t decide on which song I wanted to do, or was simply too terrified by the prospect of recording my own (singing) voice and putting it out there on the web for people to hear. I mean, I love singing, and I know I have a half-decent voice, but other people usually only hear it in a few specific contexts: (A) the rest of my family, when I’m in the shower; (B) my friends or family, when I’m playing Rock Band or some other video game that involves singing; (C) my friends, when we’re all at a karaoke bar.
This year, though, I had a reason to record a song.
As you may know, I write for a videogame website called Destructoid. The site’s editors come up with clever, funny ideas all the time, and a few weeks ago, one of them emailed the rest of the editors out of the blue with a random thought: Why don’t we all record ourselves singing Christmas carols and put it up on the site? He claims he was inebriated when he sent that email, and the tone of the message was basically, “Kidding! Unless you guys all think it could be cool…”
We did, and a bunch of Destructoid editors — whether or not they thought they could sing — recorded songs for The Destructoid Christmas Album.
My contribution was “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”; you can listen to it above. It’s just me and my guitar, although I suppose I should fess up and say that I recorded the accompaniment first and then sang over it. (One of my greatest failings in life is that I still can’t play the guitar and sing at the same time.) I should also note that I feel like this isn’t necessarily my best work; my voice wasn’t in tip-top shape when I recorded this on Monday evening, but I didn’t have the time to get it done before then (because of, y’know, that whole graduation thing and all).
Even so, I hope you enjoy it, and I hope you have yourself a Merry Christmas! Thanks for listening, and for reading my Tumblr all year.
