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Zahara Elan - \\u201cDear Santa\\u2026(NAUGHTY),\\u201d a 2022 self-released single.

This week, we are continuing a long-held tradition of featuring Christmas-themed songs selected by Brian Foss, host of KEXP\\u2019s punk show Sonic Reducer. He will be hosting his 18th annual Punk Rock Xmess on Saturday, December 24th from 9pm -12am and then jump back on the mic Christmas day from noon - 9pm for his no standards, non-traditional Christmas broadcast, including a special holiday edition of Sunday Soul.

Zahara Elan is a young musical prodigy who\\u2019s been posting her covers and, recently, original songs on YouTube\\xa0the past couple of years. Born in 2008 with Malignant Infantile Osteopetrosis (MIOP), a very rare and fatal genetic bone disorder in which the bones grow unchecked, Zahara (formerly known as Zoe) required serious medical procedures to save her life. Early videos on her YouTube channel, made by her parents, focused entirely on her therapies and development but recently they\\u2019ve shifted to focus on her main passion: creating and performing music.

Her latest original song is, to put it lightly, an absolute banger. \\u201cDear Santa\\u2026(NAUGHTY)\\u201d is, indeed, bawdy, with the Seattle-based pre-teen not holding back on the curse words. \\u201cMind your fucking business,\\u201d Elan declares in one verse to the nosy and judgemental Saint Nick. But it\\u2019s the chorus that packs the biggest punch with, \\u201cWHAT THE FUCK, Santa?! /Don\\u2019t tell me to be good /I blow off steam from time to time /Because I\\u2019m misunderstood.\\u201d It\\u2019s about time someone gave Santa the middle finger.

Watch the adorably creative video for \\u201cDear Santa\\u2026(NAUGHTY),\\u201d written, directed, filmed, and edited by Elan\\u2019s mother Kellie Newton, and read the full post at KEXP.org.

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