Did you know it takes three years for a new Christmas song to embed itself in people’s minds?” asks Rebecca Ferguson. “That’s what my publishers told me.” It’s why the 38-year-old singer and former X Factor star is “not making a big fuss, just yet” about the release of her gorgeous new single.
I doubt it’ll take three years for “Christmas Will Find You” to sink into the nation’s hearts. It took about three minutes to melt mine. Co-written with Eg White – who also collaborated on Ferguson’s debut single “Nothing’s Real But Love” back in 2011 – it’s a heartbreakingly direct song for those moments “when you’re broken in late December”. Across steadily consoling verses, Ferguson’s gently grazed voice addresses the financial pressures and the pain of divided families. Each line settles softly, like snow, before soaring into a chorus that runs: “When you’re so far from Happy Christmas/ Don’t start/ When you’re sure you’ve missed it/ It’ll find you, might be two in the morning/ But it’ll find you…”
