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This Christmas • Music & Lyrics by Arnel Pineda

http://arnelpinedarocks.com/4150/arnel/ ... 2-11-10-13

Nice tune. A little struggle with the high notes there. Isn't he Buddhist? Why a Christmas song and wearing a cross necklace? Just curious...

Journey2Infinity wrote:Nice tune. A little struggle with the high notes there. Isn't he Buddhist? Why a Christmas song and wearing a cross necklace? Just curious...

Buddhist? Lol. Why would you think he's Buddhist? I've met many in the Philippines who are Methodist, Catholic, etc. etc. even Muslim, but I've never met a Filipino/Filipina who was a Buddhist.

Hmm, maybe because the band talked extensively about it after the Eclipse release - how Arnel's practice of Buddhism influenced that entire album. Tantra is Buddhism - 4th song on album. Below is a link where Jonathan talks about it.

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What is this crap? Couldn't Neal find an American R&B singer with strong pop songwriting chops? Augeri, Arnel..just hired tenor voices....neither of these guys have what is needed to take Journey back to soaring heights. Chalfant, Thomas, or Michael Bolton were the way to go. Now they should prolly just hang it up. It's really a novelty trainwreck.

The_Noble_Cause wrote:What is this crap? Couldn't Neal find an American R&B singer with strong pop songwriting chops? Augeri, Arnel..just hired tenor voices....neither of these guys have what is needed to take Journey back to soaring heights. Chalfant, Thomas, or Michael Bolton were the way to go. Now they should prolly just hang it up. It's really a novelty trainwreck.

Here is the clean, studio version of this song. It sounds great, don't you think, Mr. Scrooge?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8TrqsC-Rk4

beautiful song...really.