{"id":974116,"date":"2019-12-19T02:08:04","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T09:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=929287"},"modified":"2019-12-19T02:08:04","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T09:08:04","slug":"watch-macklemore-perform-its-christmas-time-on-ellen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/watch-macklemore-perform-its-christmas-time-on-ellen\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Macklemore Perform \u2018It\u2019s Christmas Time\u2019 on \u2018Ellen\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-19-at-9.05.49-AM.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/macklemore\/\" id=\"auto-tag_macklemore\" data-tag=\"macklemore\">Macklemore<\/a> is getting in the Christmas spirit with his new song, \u201cIt\u2019s Christmas Time,\u201d which the rapper performed on <em>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/ellen\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ellen\" data-tag=\"ellen\">Ellen<\/a> Show<\/em>. The performance was done on a pile of fake snowdrifts with swirling flakes around Macklemore and his band.<\/p>\n<p>The song features U.K. soul singer Dan Caplen and name drops all the holiday classics that have come before. \u201cListenin\u2019 to Bing Crosby by the fire,\u201d Macklemore raps. \u201cFrank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Mariah\/ Turn off that Michael Bubl\u00e9\/ Turn on that one movie about the kid who licked the telephone pole on the Blu-ray.\u201d He also shouts out his dead dog, Toby.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt some point every holiday season, while watching&nbsp;<em>Home Alone&nbsp;<\/em>and drinking hot chocolate, the same idea hits me,\u201d Macklemore said in a statement about the song. \u201c\u2018You are the second grown rap version of Kevin McCallister. Now act like it and make a Christmas song.\u2019 So I did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that the song\u2019s music video \u201chas the holiday spirit in every frame. The true purpose and meaning of Christmas. To give, to celebrate and to take back that sweater and end up with store credit at Macy\u2019s. We must not forget the magic and that in the end it\u2019s all about giving.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ewgbVDCt-xM?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>While \u201cIt\u2019s Christmas Time\u201d is a one-off single, Macklemore said earlier this year that he\u2019s at work on an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-case-for-macklemores-magic-album-908035\/\">album about magic<\/a>. That collection has yet to get an official announcement or release date, but the rapper asked fans for help picking the name in an Instagram post last month.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/macklemore-its-christmas-time-ellen-929287\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Macklemore is getting in the Christmas spirit with his new song, \u201cIt\u2019s Christmas Time,\u201d which the rapper performed on The Ellen Show. The performance was done on a pile of fake snowdrifts with swirling flakes around Macklemore and his band. The song features U.K. soul singer Dan Caplen and name drops all the holiday classics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-974116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 00:00:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}