My Christmas

Published: Dec. 7, 2006, noon

Tony! Toni! Ton\xe9!, 1990 \u2014 This is just embarrassing. It sounds like it could easily have been an outtake from some forgotten holiday special episode of A Different World, yanked at the last minute because the song was making people irritable. It\u2019s surprisingly religious for an early-90s R&B Christmas song. But listen to how seamlessly one of the Tonys intermixes the sacred with the profane: \u201cSo this Christmas Eve/I\u2019m gonna lay out by the tree/Me and my girlie sharin\u2019 the Word/Ooh, you know what I mean\u2026/[squealing girl]/Opening up the presents.\u201d So the song sucks, but you gotta give the Tonys some credit for their skillful use of holiday innuendo.