Here comes the Santa Claus (Ladies and gentlemen!)

December 5, 2016 12:51 PM

Hamildolph (An American Christmas Story) An a capella re-singing of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer in the style of Hamilton, by Eclipse 6. (The antlers are the perfect icing on the cake.)
posted by current resident (10 comments total)

I enjoyed Hamilton but it really does feel like people are doing everything they can run it straight through the ground and into the mantle.
posted by truex at 1:00 PM on December 5, 2016 [8 favorites]

That's all we know how to do now. Everything must be loved manically, parodied, remixed, non-authorized T-shirts designed and bought...we must love it so intensely that we start to hate it almost as soon as it hits peak popularity.

Edit: Just watched the thing. It's...white. Really white. May be the whitest thing I've ever seen. It's like eating a mayonnaise sandwich on white bread in a blizzard white.
posted by skullhead at 1:56 PM on December 5, 2016 [8 favorites]

I've been using Hamilton to get the relentless Christmas music out of my head. It works really well. I'm staying far away from this.
posted by still_wears_a_hat at 2:00 PM on December 5, 2016 [1 favorite]

Edit: Just watched the thing. It's...white. Really white. May be the whitest thing I've ever seen. It's like eating a mayonnaise sandwich on white bread in a blizzard white.

I was shown this last night. I have not seem Hamilton, and I know none of the music (because I strongly want to hear it first in actual performance, as unlikely as that is in the next couple of years). Despite that, even for me, that was my immediate reaction.

Just: wow, that is amazingly white (bordering on uncomfortably so) for a parody of Hamilton.
posted by tocts at 2:21 PM on December 5, 2016 [1 favorite]

It's...white.

Given the systemic casting issues that Hamilton reacts to, that was a) the first thing I thought of and b) really uncomfortable. There are things white men shouldn't parody, I am thinking.

As a Christmas parody, it was technically well done, I can give it that.
posted by GenjiandProust at 2:24 PM on December 5, 2016

Hamildolph

Initially thought this must be a Hamilton-Hitler mashup. (... which would still be welcome.)
posted by grobstein at 2:25 PM on December 5, 2016

Yeah, my initial read was Hamilton-Dolph Lundgren so there was no way this couldn't disappoint at least a bit.
posted by MCMikeNamara at 2:50 PM on December 5, 2016 [4 favorites]

The look on Donner's face tho.
posted by BrashTech at 2:57 PM on December 5, 2016

I watched it with my kids (4 and 6), and it was a much-loved mashup of two things they love (the Hamilton soundtrack and Rudolph). I doubt any notion of over-whiteness entered their brains, and we all enjoyed it for the entertainment that it was.

I know there's some level of social commentary baked into Hamilton's explicit casting choices (and I find that I'm not immune to the same first impression that other folks have shared), but sometimes I feel a bit overly cynical and jaded... My kids are a good reset.
posted by drather19 at 8:50 PM on December 5, 2016 [2 favorites]

Yeah, I watched this, and a.)thought it was clever and catchy and b.) worthy of the hashtag #whitechristmas. Which, bummer.
posted by instamatic at 5:51 AM on December 6, 2016