Winter Things is one of those Christmas songs that is conscious of its delusions. I don’t want to tempt fate, but there hasn’t been a white Christmas in Ireland since 2010. Still, as the planet heats up, and real-life memories of a white Christmas melt away, those snowy mid-century American perennials will only sound increasingly incongruous to chalet-deprived ears. “We can be wherever if we visualise,” a loved-up Grande suggests on Winter Things. We’ll be dreaming of a mild and slightly damp Christmas, just like the ones we used to know.

Source: The Irish Times December 06, 2025 14:53 UTC