We want snow, we want snow, snow, snow!
goes the chorus of the appropriately-titled Snow Snow Snow from philanthropic pop supergroup Band of Merrymakers.
(And in the snow.)
Credit: Taylor Crothers
According to the band, thats the point.
There are a lot of people just cashing a check and phoning it in.
This was made out of a completely different goal.
It was a labor of love.
So they wrote Must Be Christmas and began approaching their friends to join in.
They needed more songs and more friends.
They were like, We know its going to sound crazy but hear us out.
And then they told me about this great idea to make Christmas songs in July.
And every month we made it a plan to get together and carve out songs.
As the weather got warmer, it almost seemed even more ludicrous.
Alex Kinsey of Alex & Sierra in particular endured the Christmas in July workload.
It was super hot, he remembers of recording Jingle Bells and Oh Holy Night.
We were jumping on the trampoline and then going in and singing Oh Holy Night [laughs].
Which is not to say these arent good songs they are.
In some cases, like Bedingfields Wishlist, which youll soon hear on radio, they are excellent songs.
Were all songwriters, Bedingfield says.
[And] that was the goal: to write actually good songs.
The Band of Merrymakers, for all its fun, is also coated in good.
A donation is being made toMusiCaresfrom each album sold.
We wanted to bring some mirth back to the world, Hollander says.
Musicians dont have 401Ks, they dont have health care its a great organization to be involved with.
Today, EW is excited to share the video for Snow Snow Snow.
