A mere few days ago, I wrote about another similarly-titled tune called "White Xmas" by seiyuu Yui Horie（堀江由衣）under her guise as Miss Monochrome for this year's crop of Yuletide-based Japanese pop tunes.
Well, I can guarantee you here...this "White Christmas" by singer-songwriter Shoko Sawada（沢田聖子）not only has nothing to do with Der Bingle but it's far from a happy-go-lucky number dedicated to December 25th. It's pretty much along the lines of one Japanese trope of the adopted holiday that says that people can be absolutely miserable in romance.
A track on Sawada's 17th album from June 1990, "White Christmas" deals with a couple at home whose love is practically on fumes only as the woman in the relationship tries to get any sort of spark going in their once-happy time together while the guy pretends to be a zombie. It may be a white Christmas but it's nowhere near a merry one. I mean, it sounds very pretty and holy with some pleasant harmonies but this is surely not a Xmas tune for the happy couples. It seems more for the disgruntled single person sucking up Cup O' Noodles on the 25th.
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