Please don’t play it once more, Diane.
That’s the bah-humbug feeling you’ll be having after listening to Diane Keaton’s new vacation single “First Christmas.”
Placing the “Black” in “Black Friday,” the yuletide tearjerker is rather more mopey than merry, sucking all the vacation spirit out of you.
And with Keaton’s painful efficiency — it’s the cringe that stole Christmas — the entire thing is simply unhappy in each means.
Why this appearing legend, at 78, felt that this was the reward that we wanted to start out the season, we’ll by no means know.
This bummer of a ballad, drearily drenched in strings, is about spending your “First Christmas” with out the one you like.
“Hearing ‘I’ll Be Home for Christmas’/It only makes me miss him/When you love someone for so, so long/Yet they’re not coming home,” warbles Keaton, tentatively talk-singing by way of it.
And when it comes time to pour on the melodrama within the refrain, her limp vocals fall flat proper together with the drained lyrics: “The snow falls on my window/I wish that I could let go/It’s a silent night/It’s another year/The first Christmas without you here.”
“First Christmas” was co-written by Carole Bayer Sager, who has penned songs for everybody from Barbra Streisand and Dionne Warwick to Diana Ross and Michael Jackson.
However Keaton isn’t wherever close to that membership.
At this level in her profession, although, the Oscar winner for 1977’s “Annie Hall” can do no matter stuffs her stocking.
“I CAN’T BELIEVE IT’S FINALLY HERE!” Keaton gushed on Instagram final week. “MY DEBUT HOLIDAY SINGLE, ‘FIRST CHRISTMAS,’ IS COMING OUT FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29TH.”
Alongside the only cowl the place she is rocking one among her trademark turtlenecks, she added, “SO EXCITED TO SHARE THIS SONG WITH YOU ALL.”
Certainly, her longtime Christmas want is lastly coming true with this venture.
“I had a fantasy of being a nightclub singer that I carried through even into my early 20s,” Keaton advised Metro Canada in 2014. “I sang a couple of gigs, as they call them, but I was not very good.”
Whereas singing has been her secret ardour, the “Something’s Gotta Give” star admitted that “I’m aware of the limitations of my voice.”
Though she took voice classes for years, she discovered that she had “a very small voice.”
Nonetheless, that hasn’t modified her tune about singing. “I have this love of it,” mentioned Keaton, who beforehand duetted with singer Ashe on her 2022 single “Love Is Letting Go.”
“I love music. I love singing ballads and sad songs, it’s just so much fun.”
