{"id":2211025,"date":"2025-12-24T14:17:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T14:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2211025"},"modified":"2025-12-24T14:17:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T14:17:42","slug":"did-taylor-swift-compose-last-christmas-the-shocking-truth-behind-the-festive-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/did-taylor-swift-compose-last-christmas-the-shocking-truth-behind-the-festive-classic\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Taylor Swift compose \u2018Last Christmas\u2019? The shocking truth behind the festive classic |"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Certain whispers of America\u2019s musical sweetheart Taylor Swift being the brain behind the song have been getting louder<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018Last Christmas I gave you my heart\u2019 is one of the most iconic Christmas songs ever. The timeless tracks resurface every year just in time for the festive season and rather than being a breakup song, it is more of a friends and family bonder. Ever since its release in 1984, the song has become a part of the very fabric of Christmas celebrations and with the rise of social media, it has become a global sensation. However, in recent years, certain whispers of America\u2019s musical sweetheart Taylor Swift<\/a> being the brain behind the song have been getting louder. Many who are hearing it for the first time assume Swift is the magic creator. <\/p>\n

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Did Taylor Swift compose \u2018Last Christmas\u2019?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

Taylor Swift is a global music icon and has a reputation for reimagining classics and putting her spin on them. At the beginning of her career, she created a lot of holiday music and created \u2018Taylor\u2019s version\u2019 of many popular hits. In 2007, she recorded a cover of Wham!\u2019s \u2018Last Christmas\u2019 for her debut holiday EP, \u2018The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection\u2019. Over the years, the clips of that song have gone viral on social media, often without context. For young listeners who are just being introduced to the Christmas classic, the song is a Taylor Swift creation at first. At least, until they move down the social media blackhole to find out that Wham! is the singing sensation that crowds homes during Christmas with their hit.Interestingly, the song was released in 1984 via CBS Records, four years before Swift was even born!<\/p>\n

\u2018Last Christmas\u2019: The original artist<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

\u2018Last Christmas\u2019 has been enjoying a whole lot of attention and love of late. The holiday tune topped Billboard\u2019s Global 200 chart this week, even defeating Mariah Carey\u2019s favourite \u2018All I Want for Christmas Is You\u2019.Following the achievement, George Michael<\/a>\u2019s team shared on Instagram that he adored Christmas and would have loved seeing the song return to No.1. The other member of the global duo, Andrew Ridgeley also dubbed it a remarkable moment, saying the song\u2019s renewed global love feels like the best Christmas gift imaginable. <\/p>\n

Christmas music on the rise<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

Along with Wham!\u2019s \u2018Last Christmas\u2019, Mariah Carey\u2019s \u2018All I Want for Christmas Is You\u2019 is among the top two songs on the Billboard Global 200 for the week of December 20, 2025. Ariana Grande\u2019s \u2018Santa Tell Me\u2019, Brenda Lee\u2019s \u2018Rockin\u2019 Around the Christmas Tree\u2019, Bobby Helms\u2019 \u2018Jingle Bell Rock\u2019 and Michael Buble\u2019s \u2018It\u2019s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas\u2019 are also among the top 10. With Christmas tomorrow, the halls are decked and houses are filled with cheer and music. No matter who you listen to, the magic remains the same and more, all because of Christmas!<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source timesofindia.indiatimes.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Certain whispers of America\u2019s musical sweetheart Taylor Swift being the brain behind the song have been getting louder \u2018Last Christmas I gave you my heart\u2019 is one of the most iconic Christmas songs ever. The timeless tracks resurface every year just in time for the festive season and rather than being a breakup song, it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2211026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[372528,427063,386128,405950,370311,427064,23084,427061,410630,427062],"class_list":["post-2211025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-billboard-global-200","tag-christmas-songs-2025","tag-george-michael","tag-holiday-music","tag-last-christmas","tag-mariah-carey-christmas-songs","tag-taylor-swift","tag-taylor-swift-last-christmas","tag-wham","tag-wham-last-christmas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Did-Taylor-Swift-compose-\u2018Last-Christmas-The-shocking-truth-behind.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2211025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2211027,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211025\/revisions\/2211027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2211026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2211025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2211025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2211025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}