That's Christmas To Me (Deluxe Edition)

Hello everybody and welcome back.  This week, I am taking you through a Christmas album, but only in the spirit of Christmas.  I am listening to That's Christmas To Me by Pentatonix.  It is their deluxe Christmas album and it is amazing.  If you don't know who they are, they are an a capella group with only five members.  It is a very difficult task to do a capella with only five people. Because this is a capella, I am not going to be talking about the lyrics, but more about the arrangement of the voices and songs. Let's go.

1.  Hark the Herald Angels Sing

I love this take on the song.  They make this song very modern with the bass and the beatboxing.  The harmonies and tempo of the song are faster than the original, yet they make it work.

2.  White Winter Hymnal

This song has everything in it.  It has the beatboxing, the four part harmony, and even clapping and hitting.  The clapping and hitting is actually a very difficult thing to do.  You need to have the coordination to do both at the same time.

3.  Sleigh Ride

This song has a very modern spin on it as well.  The beat/bass of the song is very mello.  The honestly didn't get to far away from the original composition, yet it is a better set up than the original.

4.  Winter Wonderland/Don't Worry Be Happy ft. Tori Kelly

The mash up of these two songs are not something that many people could think of.  You would never even think that the two songs go together, yet the composition of the two are amazingly put together.  It just shows that almost all songs are able to be put together to make an amazing mashup.

5.  That's Christmas To Me

This song is an original song that they wrote and composed.  It's lyrics all have some meaning to every person in the group.  It is also a five part harmony instead of having a beat behind it.  Each member gets their own part to sing as a solo, except for Kevin, who is normally the beatboxer.  In the video, they look back to childhood memories of Christmas time.  It show's the home video's that their parents took.

6.  Mary, Did You Know?

This song is quite a personal song to me.  Me and my mom love to sing this during the holiday season.  There is a four part harmony in this song and they even had Kevin singing in this one.  This song is very special to me because it is special to my mom.  I love to listen to it and hear the harmonies and beat mix perfectly together.

7.  Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy

There are no words in this song, so it is an amazing match up for an acapella group.  The mix of all of the harmonies of sounds are perfectly in sync and they mix well with the bass and beat.  It is quite difficult to fill a room with music and have no words when your considered a pop group, yet they executed this flawlessly.


This was just a snippet of the whole deluxe album.  If you want to hear more, I invite you to listen to the whole album.  Thank you for reading and I will see you next time.


I also added four of the music video's to the bottom if you wanted to watch them.