Kim K Crawls the Floor in "Santa Baby" Video f/ Macaulay Culkin
This Christmas party is definitely worth going to.
Kim Kardashian officially returned to music early on Monday morning, performing Eartha Kitt’s 1953 version of “Santa Baby.” Travis Barker produced the song, which was released in collaboration with blink-182 drummer DTA Records and Columbia. It follows her debut single, “Jam (Turn It Up),” by almost 14 years. Although the SKIMS co-founder later expressed conflicting feelings about that one, Kim’s rendition of “Santa Baby” appears set for a greater appreciation in the years to come.
Kardashian hired Nadia Lee Cohen and Charlie Denis to direct the video, which is a crawling-the-floor, warped VHS-style visual experience that essentially gives the audience a guided tour of an extravagantly wild Christmas party. As Kim gradually makes her way to the video’s fitting conclusion—a cameo from a camera-wielding Macaulay Culkin in a Santa suit—there are hints of Kubrick, Lynch, and blink scattered throughout.
Try your hand at it by listening to the track on the streamer of your choice, or jump right in above.
Barker’s “Santa Baby” is the latest in a series of holiday-themed works, such as blink’s seasons-spanning “Happy Holidays You Bastard,” which covers topics ranging from oral sex to a grandfather who binge-eats. With the 2019 music video for “Not Another Christmas Song,” blink, which at the time had Alkaline Trio’s Matt Skiba in place of founding member Tom DeLonge (who later rejoined the band three years later), went the claymation route.
