Christmas Tree (Lady Gaga song)

Due to digital downloads, "Christmas Tree" reached number 79 on the Canadian Hot 100 chart in January 2009.[4][5] Kierszenbaum recommended a collaboration between them after hearing Space Cowboy's single "My Egyptian Lover",[3][4] released in January 2007 and featuring vocalist Nadia Oh.[2][7] The pair worked together in Los Angeles to create "Christmas Tree" and "Starstruck", a song from revised editions of Lady Gaga's then-current album The Fame.[3][7] Space Cowboy commented of working with Lady Gaga: We figured out that we shared pretty much the same experiences; we'd been doing similar things on opposite sides of the Atlantic.[8] In an analysis by Stelios Phili of the Washington Square News, Phili jokes that the meaning of the song is closer to the original version of "Deck the Halls", a Welsh folk song called "Nos Galan" (Welsh for "New Year's Eve") traditionally sung at New Year's Eve,[10][11] than the English Christmas version.Alex Rawls of OffBeat gave a positive review as part of the "25 Days of Free" offer from Amazon.com.[19] Estrella Adeyeri, the music editor of Nouse, gave the song a positive review, complimenting its "synth beats and numerous yuletide innuendos".Christmas 4, John Lucas of The Georgia Straight described the song as a "filthy electro banger" and "so blatantly about [sex] that you have to wonder how in the hell it got past the usually vigilant Now!4, J Matthew Cobb of HiFi Magazine called "Christmas Tree" part of a "good list" of new material and described it as "naughty, but nice".[45] In December 2010, it was also ranked at number 23 on the "Hot 100 Holiday Christmas Songs" by Billboard,[45] based on sales and airplay over the winter period as calculated by Nielsen SoundScan and Nielson BDS.