Paper hats off to John Lewis. They’ve finally ditched the maudlin covers of pop hits and commissioned a brilliantly bonkers blast of original music as the soundtrack to their annual Christmas advert. It’s a pure joy of a track, written by Italian electro duo Le Feste Antonacci and sung by popular Tuscan tenor Andrea Bocelli, which builds rapidly from a heart-snagging piano ballad to a demented, drum-pounding synth-backed headbanger. It will surely have pub floors across Britain shaking through December as punters leap up and down in a blur of tinsel.
The advert – created by Saatchi and Saatchi – is a celebration of each family’s unique seasonal traditions. It features a little boy who grows a pantomime version of a Venus flytrap for the family Christmas tree. Alas, the naughty Little Tree of Horrors is rejected by the family and sent out into the cold (boo hiss) – but when the little boy wants to open his presents under the carnivorous plant instead of the traditional pine number, the wacky flytrap is welcomed back into the fold.
