Lil Tjay and Fivio Overseas share drill rework of Wham!’s ‘Final Christmas’
Lil Tjay and Fivio Overseas have flipped Wham!‘s iconic 1986 music ‘Final Christmas’ right into a rambunctious drill music.
Tjay and Overseas have been mates for a while. The latter even credited the previous for getting his deal at Columbia Data in a 2020 interview with esteemed radio character Angie Martinez. They’ve collaborated seven occasions, the most well-liked being the Pop Smoke-assisted ‘Zoo York’ from Tjay’s ‘State Of Emergency’ EP.
Now, the New York duo have dropped ‘Final Christmas’, following the continuing pattern drill development with Tjay and Overseas’s verses displaying a special perspective to the George Michael-sung music – this time portraying themselves as the opposite get together who stole the hearts of companions already spoken for.
The Brooklynites go on to boast about how a lot better they’re in comparison with their women’ different flings: “She a lover woman, nonetheless not a ho / Love her man, however she feelin’ the child.”
Within the music video, you possibly can see Tjay having enjoyable round a ski resort; stress-free in pyjamas round a Christmas tree, driving costly vehicles and going tubing. Overseas is nowhere to be seen as a result of, in line with the music video, he missed his flight and couldn’t make the shoot.
Tjay and Overseas are usually not the primary to cowl ‘Final Christmas’ this 12 months. Coco & Clair Clair and Alanis Morrisette have launched their respective takes on Wham!’s festive basic.
Earlier this month, a DJ apologised for enjoying ‘Final Christmas’ throughout a current Northampton City FC sport. Round this time of 12 months, many play Whamaggedon! the place they see how lengthy they’ll go with out listening to the favored music within the Christmas interval.
The DJ took to X/Twitter to deal with the backlash, writing: “I gave it a spin, pondering it might be fairly humorous to wipe out 7,000 individuals who couldn’t keep away from it, however clearly it isn’t humorous.”
In different information, Lil Tjay not too long ago completed his worldwide ‘Beat The Odds’ area tour, which stopped within the UK, North America and Australasia. In August, the 22-year-old additionally did a shock set at this 12 months’s Leeds Competition after not displaying as much as the positioning the day earlier than.
In the meantime, Fivio Overseas thought Nicki Minaj shouted him out on the ‘Pink Friday 2’ spotlight, ‘Everyone’ with Lil Uzi Vert. He captioned a TikTok video, “When Nicki say ‘Fivi’ in her new song” – mistaking the “Everyone” ad-lib for his nickname, which is pronounced Favi.