Anything with a great deal of melisma embellishment and bonus points if it is sung in a minor key. Christmas is supposed to be happy, so what’s with all the crappy renditions of things in minor keys?
“Christmas is supposed to be happy, so what’s with all the crappy renditions of things in minor keys?”
A lot of modern R&B-style singers can’t sing in a major key because their whole singing style is built on using the minor pentatonic scale for all those embellishments, and that doesn’t work too well over a major key. So if your singer can’t sing the song in the major key, the only thing the producer can do is change the song to a minor key.