Song Review:: Dreamcatcher: [My Christmas Sweet Love]- My Christmas Sweet Love

• Release date: 2024 December 20

• Album tracklist: My Christmas Sweet Love, Jazz Bar (Carol ver.), Wonderland (Carol ver.)

• Album runtime: 11 minutes

 My spooky Halloween girl group dropped a Christmas single! Most exciting! I'm even more excited about the fact that it's almost four minutes long. Don't mind me. I'm just happily basking in this.

I spent about the first quarter of the song thinking about how pretty and surprisingly subdued the instrumentals were, especially for a Dreamcatcher song, then the energy kicked up and the rock-tinged instrumentals I know and love flared to life. The chorus should normally have an increase in energy, but this epitomizes the notion of the quiet before the storm. The chorus instrumentals automatically appear to be louder just by virtue of the relative quiet immediately preceding and proceeding the chorus. The bells are not as present throughout the song as I would have expected, but instead, during the chorus, we have what might be a glockenspiel, which is a delightful word to say. I'm not entirely positive it's a glockenspiel, but I'm almost positive that it's a xylophone of some sort and that the bars are metal, which does qualify the glockenspiel as a candidate.

I appreciate that even though this is a festive song, the songwriters still took advantage of their voices to give them brief explosions of sound, but it feels a little like the softer sections of the song are a separate song from the stronger rock sounds. It's a good showcase of the diversity of their range, but the cohesiveness of the song as a whole, particularly with the theme of the song, is weakened because of it. Their voices are still gorgeous. I love their voices. The lyrics are particularly sweet and poignant, and I really love them too.

This is just a cute, obviously staged but cute nonetheless, recording video for the song. It's a lot of smiles and play.