How must on no account the Adventdskalender in German living rooms to Vorweihnnachtszeit, wihnachtliche sounds from the stereo are essential in the USA. Particular preference: the great divas of Muiskgeschäfts as Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey or Toni Braxten. Also Ashanti wants to secure a permanent place at the fireplace with 'their' Christmas. Already with the 1'Song "Christmas Time Again" it refers to the period of reflection by repeated that a raustrieft the chorus out of your ears again. As if you open any door of the Advent calendar even before 1 Advent and destroyed all the cheap chocolate all at once. Since it does not help that Ashanti told a farce of her youth, as she baked her cousin the first Christmas cookies. Similarly corny comes "This Christmast" therefore his extremely synthetically sounding Glöcken. Clichés, how that under the mistletoe kissing couple and the crackling fire can not be missed. Also "sharing Chrstmast" fits seamlessly into the series of musical nichtsausagenden songs. The only good thing: It teaches the German audience, that there is in family Ashanti turkey at Christmas. Of course, can be found on the CD also some `Klassiker` of Christmas music. Above all, "Silent Night which comes much too short across. More and more of mulled wine stalls German Christmas markets are" Winter Wonderland "and" We Wish You a Merry Christmast "mitgeträllert. However, in these songs the necessary devotion and nostalgia is lacking. It has the Irv Gotti feeling producer has burrowed deep in Popkonserven archive to press möglischst quickly a few songs on CD. Too bad. On the whole CD just 2 songs where Ashanti manages to awaken the anticipation of Christmas. In "The Christmas Song" Ashanti infatuated with her honeyed voice, accompanied by a piano - melt away ... "Hey Santa" swings against it refreshing through the snow. Ashanti makes full use of all its charm and tried with "Chocolate Kisses" to conquer the good old Santa. Unfortunately Ashanti and producer Irvi Gotti did not even try to make it appear that you the quality of the disc is more important than the commercial. Boring and unloving most songs are sung there. Therefore, people preferred return on the Fischer choirs in the grandparents' record collection.
