{"id":61012,"date":"2023-11-24T12:06:12","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T17:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2023\/11\/24\/how-matt-rogers-manifested-a-joke-into-a-hit-christmas-album-i-kind-of-faked-my-way-into-it\/"},"modified":"2023-11-24T12:06:12","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T17:06:12","slug":"how-matt-rogers-manifested-a-joke-into-a-hit-christmas-album-i-kind-of-faked-my-way-into-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2023\/11\/24\/how-matt-rogers-manifested-a-joke-into-a-hit-christmas-album-i-kind-of-faked-my-way-into-it\/","title":{"rendered":"How Matt Rogers Manifested a Joke Into a Hit Christmas Album: \u2018I Kind of Faked My Way Into\u00a0It\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tEven as the self-proclaimed Prince of Christmas, Matt Rogers is still baffled by how much a single holiday has consumed his year. <\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cI went to a pool party on the Fourth of July this year, and people kept asking me, \u2018What are you working on?’\u201d Rogers tells Billboard<\/em> over a Zoom call from a London hotel. \u201cAnd I had to say, \u2018Actually, a Christmas album.\u2019 So it turns out, when you do a Christmas album, you actually better love Christmas because it becomes your whole year.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBut the comedian\u2019s hard work certainly paid off with the release of Have You Heard of Christmas?<\/a><\/em>, Rogers\u2019 debut album of satirical holiday tracks (released on Nov. 6 via Capitol Records) designed to both celebrate the monolithic holiday and skewer its cultural oversaturation. Spanning every genre of holiday song he could over the course of 12 songs, Rogers expertly puts Christmas under the microscope, playing out every last seasonal scenario with wit, charm and plenty of holiday cheer. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe album\u2019s origins date back to 2017, when Rogers began a one-man show in New York City, making fun of the very concept of the celebrity Christmas album. As he honed his act over the next few years, Rogers eventually got the show greenlit as a special for Showtime<\/a>, debuting in Dec. 2022 \u2014 a record deal with Capitol followed shortly thereafter. <\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s become clear that audiences everywhere are also buying into Rogers\u2019 Christmas vision \u2014 one week after its release, Have You Heard of Christmas? <\/em>made Rogers a Billboard<\/em>-charting artist, as the LP debuted at No. 4 on the Comedy Albums chart<\/a>. Meanwhile, the comedian still can\u2019t get over that audiences are singing his songs along with him during his live shows. \u201cI now get to be in that club of people that have had that experience, which is really cool,\u201d he says with a smile. <\/p>\n

\n\tBelow, Rogers chats with Billboard<\/em> about the album\u2019s origin as a joke, the \u201cbald capitalism\u201d of the holiday season, his favorite celebrity Christmas album and why he thinks pop music ought to be funnier.<\/p>\n

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