He apparently did a whole christmas album – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho,_Ho,_Ho – which I’d either forgotten or hadn’t fully taken stock of when I wrote the post!

I’ve listened to it a few times now and I’m still bemused by it, but I love bemusing covers so in a way I’m glad it exists.

In the original sexual undertones are heavily implied because the listeners are already steeped in the idea of feminine beauty as a source of… economic bargaining power? The heroine reminds me of a few cinematic characters; I was chatting to our Sarah J yesterday and she mentioned Marilyn Monroe’s character in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (released the same year as Santa Baby) who at one point says “Don’t you know that a man being rich is like a girl being pretty?”.

Anyway, this whole discourse is woven so heavily through the song’s entire lyrical structure that when Buble’s version tries to remove all that stuff and replace it with “good clean boy’s fun”… it just sort of leaves a suggestive void which immediately had me listening all the harder for the implied flirty bits!

Buble raptors! I couldn’t read the Buble bits out to my lover for crying with laughter too much : )