{"id":479901,"date":"2018-12-14T12:42:59","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T19:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=769352"},"modified":"2018-12-14T12:42:59","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T19:42:59","slug":"vince-staples-just-released-2018s-best-christmas-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/vince-staples-just-released-2018s-best-christmas-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Vince Staples Just Released 2018\u2019s Best Christmas Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Vince-Staples-home-christmas-spiderman-soundtrack-2018.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/vince-staples\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vince Staples<\/a>\u2018 \u201cHome\u201d doesn\u2019t feature mentions of Christmas, Santa, sleigh bells, snow or anything remotely holiday-esque. The distorted and thumping Take A Daytrip-produced track is somber, defiant and moody \u2014 not cheerful or bright. There are no reindeers.<\/p>\n<p>However, consider the transitive property. The song is on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/spider-man\/\" id=\"auto-tag_spider-man\" data-tag=\"spider-man\">Spider-Man<\/a>: Into The Spider-Verse soundtrack \u2014 a family December movie \u2014 which means that it\u2019s a Christmas movie because people are seeing it over Christmas break, and that the songs on its soundtrack are therefore Christmas songs. Additionally, Vince is rapping about going home. The holiday season for many is a dismal mix of being stuck where you are and growing nostalgic about where you came from. Or, as Vince so elegantly puts it, \u201cThis morning I woke up in a fortress of distortion \/ I\u2019m at war with my emotions.\u201d Same, Vince, same. In conclusion, I consider \u201cHome\u201d to be a Christmas song, and demand that it be placed on Spotify\u2019s popular holiday playlists as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p><em>The song is also standard motion picture fare,\u00a0speaking to an amorphous sense of justice without getting bogged down in any specifics. It\u2019s the second time <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/movies\/movie-news\/black-panther-trailer-watch-hero-prepare-to-battle-ominous-villain-195651\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Staples has soundtracked a superhero blockbuster<\/a> featuring a black male lead; he\u2019s become adept at building a sense of epic scale with very few words. Through a layer of a reverb, Vince presents a reprieve from crisis during the song\u2019s chorus, \u201cI\u2019m coming home \/ Right where I belong now.\u201d Whether you\u2019re saving the world like the film\u2019s Miles Morales or making the trek back to your hometown, the fight is all the same. Happy holidays, y\u2019all!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5IaHyW-z27U?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><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/vince-staples-home-spiderman-into-the-spiderverse-769352\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vince Staples\u2018 \u201cHome\u201d doesn\u2019t feature mentions of Christmas, Santa, sleigh bells, snow or anything remotely holiday-esque. The distorted and thumping Take A Daytrip-produced track is somber, defiant and moody \u2014 not cheerful or bright. There are no reindeers. However, consider the transitive property. The song is on the Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse soundtrack \u2014 a [&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":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-479901","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 12:27:04","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":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}