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Thoughts And Notions/Tirada Featuring Elvis Rocha, Wile Lile, and AJ Alburo - What Real Christmas Means to Me (Christmas)

Thoughts And Notions/Tirada Featuring Elvis Rocha, Wile Lile, and AJ Alburo - What Real Christmas Means to Me
Hey, everyone! We're so excited to introduce you to the latest release by Thoughts And Notions, 'What Real Christmas Means to Me.'

It's a song that's been a while in the making. They've been working on this song for months, and finally got it just right. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do.

Thoughts And Notions wrote this song with the intention of helping people refocus on what Christmas truly means. For years now, there seems to be an over-commercialization of Christmas—and this in a way leads young people to focus less and less on the child born in the manger, Jesus Christ. So that was the primary reason why they decided to write this song.

As for the music itself: originally, Thoughts And Notions wanted to write a traditional Christmas ballad/carol time of song to match the lyrics. But then these musicians came together and decided they wanted something different—something that would catch your attention by making their unique sound stand out from other traditional songs out there. So they went that route instead.

The band hopes that the unique sound will catch the listener's attention enough to actually listen to the song, and then hopefully capture the message they wanted to deliver.

Lyrics:
https://genius.com/Thoughts-and-notions-what-real-christmas-means-to-me-lyrics


You can listen to the track on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/3Xcn3qbf6ha0CnZ42yCRhC?si=e29e868066674b46

Here is a link to the video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R_9Z_60_vA

Would you like to hear more Christmas music? We have over 10 hours of Christian Christmas music for you in a weekly refreshed playlist on Spotify, Deezer, and YouTube:

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