Tim: One more Christmas song for you. And since it’s Christmas Eve, how about we make it a good one?
Tom: Wait, hang on – an Aqua single I haven’t heard of? Blimey. This should be… interesting.
Tom: Ah, “Presented in AquaScope” with a drum roll! Proper old-school.
Tim: Ahem, I think you mean ‘old-skool’. It was a sort of toe-dipping in the waters of a reunion, and it seemed to do the trick. The regurgitating of the Coca-Cola/red Santa always annoys me, but René’s portrayal of a drunken Santa stumbling into his igloo does somewhat make up for that…
Tom: When the other three arrived in the first scenes of the video, I thought “where’s René?”, and then immediately thought “wait, he’ll be playing Santa, of course”.
Tim: …as do the other lyrics such as ‘all the dreams of white Christmas are getting you wet’.
Tom: “Are you ready to get stuffed like a turkey” is in there somewhere too, as well.
Tim: And “this is the season where the Wham! song damages your head” – somewhat unfair, but also somewhat true.
Tom: And this isn’t a bad track, actually – if it wasn’t a novelty Christmas song, this’d be a fairly solid Aqua single on its own.