Jolly December Day - AlexGB231 ft SOLARIA from Synth V (Christmas Special 2023)
Channel: AlexGB231
Date: 2023-12-19

Alright, here's this year's Christmas special for you lot! God, this one was a little difficult to put together - my laptop kinda broke recently, so I didn't know if I'd be able to get this out in time... Luckily I still had a backup MP3 saved to my Google Drive and could use my phone/home desktop computer to work on the video! 

As for the cover art, I held an art contest and @spacepawdity4973 ended up winning with their entry, and that's the one shown in the video. It looks good, it blends well with my artstyle, but I also feel like it feels more detailed in some places than my artwork usually gets, which is good, of course!

As for the song itself, it takes on a much livelier mood than my other Christmas specials have, so it stands out in that way. It still contains that bittersweet element through the IV - iv - I progression that ends the verse loop, so there's that! The overall verse progression is F# - F#7 - B - Bm, so we also get that V7/IV chord thrown in there as well, which also sounds pretty nice and cool too! Oh, we also have a G#m7b5 chord in the post-solo section too, because m7b5 chords are considered a Christmassy chord, apparently.

On top of that, it's my first Christmas song to actually have vocals too, courtesy of SOLARIA from Synth V, also depicted as the one hanging up the decorations on the Christmas tree. Lyrically, the song basically depicts a Christmas party/family gathering at Christmas, nothing too special there.

That is all. I hope you like it!