Sabrina Carpenter has recently released her festive jukebox of joy fruitcake just in time for the holiday season and I could not have been more excited to listen to it. The album consists of five brand new Christmas-themed hits as well as a jolly spin on her worldwide hit ‘Nonsense.’

‘A Nonsense Christmas’ starts the album off on an exhilarating note. I absolutely adored ‘Nonsense’ when it was first released on Carpenter’s hit record emails i can’t send and it was definitely in my top three songs when I first listened to the album.

I knew that I was instantly in for a treat when I first listened to its Christmas counterpart on fruitcake. The twist on the original lyrics ‘I don’t want Santa’s elves underneath this ol’ tree / Here’s a lil carol I wrote, it’s about you and me (Me)’ highlight the jovial, Christmas tone Carpenter aimed to put across in the album and she delivered for sure. The upbeat melody accompanying the lyrics definitely put me in the Christmas spirit and brought out my joy for the holiday season.

Another light-hearted song, and my favourite on fruitcake, is ‘buy me presents’ as this song connoted Carpenter battling for her lover’s attention this holiday season. The song very much gives a Hallmark Christmas movie-esque vibe as the lyrics in the second verse highlight this, ‘From a city that’s colder (Brr) / But damn it, he’s so hot.’

However, fruitcake also showed the emotional aspect of Christmas and how Carpenter is showing that her lover may not always be there for her in the holiday season, ‘cindy lou who’ gave me this impression very much.

Carpenter indirectly explains her feelings about her lover’s other girl straight away at the end of the first verse, ‘Guess you made him happy like I couldn’t do / Cindy Lou Who’ and the accompanying delicate melodies of the piano connote her holiday glum very much.

Overall, I found the album to be one of the best Christmas albums that I have listened to in a while as it brought out the youthful joy of Christmas and explained the highs and lows of the holiday season when in love.

Rating: 10/10

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