Likable AI Christmas Art

[Hornbein]

AI art has a bad rep but in the hands of a real artist it can be very impressive. Candace Night sings Christmas carols. It doesn't hurt that she both sings beautifully and seems like the nicest person in the world.



Candace never was able to get started on television because the suits ruled that anyone over 25 years is too old to break in to the business and she was 30 or so. So the band plays in festivals held in castles, things like that. That's better than mass fame anyway.

 

[sysprog1]

It seems to me incongruous and disrespectful that she capitalizes on the commercial cachet of non-secular Christmas carols with explicit Christ references edited out. Presumably they are so-redacted because singing the songs with the Christ words left in would not be acceptable to her as a Jewish person; as far as I know, most observant Jews would eschew singing non-secular Christmas carols altogether, rather than presuming to sanitize the Christ out of them, and then singing them de-Christianized, and then purveying recordings thereof for commercial consumption.

From: Blackmore's Night $-$ Hark the Herald Angels Sing / Come All Ye Faithful

Hark! The herald angels sing:
"Glory to the newborn King!
Peace on earth and mercy mild
God and sinners reconciled"
Joyful, all ye nations rise
Join the triumph of the skies
With angelic hosts proclaim:
"Peace has come to Bethlehem"
Hark! The herald angels sing:
"Glory to the newborn king!"

Hail by highest heaven adored
Hail the everlasting Lord!
Light and life to all He brings
Here with healing in His wings
Mild He lay His glory by
Born that man no more may die
Bringing hope to all the land
Peace to every child and man
Hark! The herald angels sing:
"Glory to the newborn king!"

Come, all ye faithful
Joyful and triumphant
O come ye, o come ye to Bethlehem
Come and behold Him
Born the King of Angels
Come, let us adore Him
O come, let us adore Him
O come, let us adore Him
He is the Lord

Sing, choirs of angels
Sing in exultation
Sing, all ye citizens of heaven above
Glory to God
Glory in the highest
O come, let us adore Him
Come, let us adore Him
O come, let us adore Him
He is the Lord
O come, let us adore Him
He is the Lord


I think the Great Pumpkin would deem this 1965 version 'more sincere':