Most Christmas songs are composed to help us feel happy, hopeful, and loved. They can also make us remember good times from the past.
And the ones that stir our feelings the most become classics, like Mariah Carey’s, All I Want for Christmas is You, Brenda Lee’s, Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree, Bing Crosby’s White Christmas or Wham’s, Last Christmas.
But in the UK, there is a push to make one song that has nothing to do with snow, sleigh rides, presents, or holidays the top Christmas song of 2023.
Every Christmas, people in Great Britain get excited about which song will be the most popular on the charts during the week of Christmas.
They even have a name for it–Christmas No. 1.
Usually, the top song is a famous pop song like Whitney Houston’s, I Will Always Love You.
Sometimes, it’s a seasonal song like Band-Aid’s Do They Know It’s Christmas?
Other times, it’s an unusual song, like Killing in the Name by Rage Against the Machine.
This year, many people are supporting We Tried by Louise Harris.
The song is about how important it is to act immediately on climate change.
Louise Harris is super passionate about this topic.
Last year, she protested against new oil and gas projects on a British highway and was arrested.
She was also arrested for playing We Tried live outside the house of the British Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak.
Her song starts with gentle piano music that gets louder and more dramatic and builds to a ‘climatic’ crescendo.
In Harris’s music video for We Tried, she looks directly at the camera and cries while passionately singing the song. Scattered in the video is dramatic footage of climate disasters.
If you can watch the music video without shedding a tear, then you have a heart the same size as the Grinch!
We Tried has already reached number 1 on the UK iTunes chart, but people are trying to make it the top song during Christmas week.
Harris’s song competes with Christmas classics from Wham!, the Pogues, and Sam Ryder.
To help make We Tried a Christmas No. 1. go here.
