Holidays (Meghan Trainor song)
Trainor wrote the song with Philip Bailey, Eddie Benjamin, Verdine White, Ralph Johnson, and its producer, Mike Sabath.[2] Trainor wrote "Holidays" with Earth, Wind & Fire members Philip Bailey, Verdine White, and Ralph Johnson, along with Eddie Benjamin, and its producer, Mike Sabath.[5] In an appearance on The Kelly Clarkson Show,[6] she announced that the soon-to-be-filmed music video for her Earth, Wind & Fire collaboration would be the first one shot during her pregnancy.[6][12] The song's musical style has been described as old-school and funky by the Associated Press's Mark Kennedy,[13] and it demonstrates the links between "'70s R&B/pop and current-day pop" according to Allan Sculley of The Spokesman-Review.[14] Writing for Idolator, Mike Wass stated that the production advanced a few decades compared to the A Very Trainor Christmas track "My Kind of Present".Trainor performs the song with Earth, Wind & Fire, dressed in shiny jackets, on a stage decorated with enormous ornaments, disco balls, toy troops, and dancers wearing matching red bows.She wore a sparkling bodysuit with a large green bow while reprising the song with Earth, Wind & Fire for NBC's Christmas in Rockefeller Center special, which aired on December 2, 2020.
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