So Poppy has gone and made a metal cover of Wham’s Last Christmas and it sounds pretty crazy

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The genre-splicing star has reworked Wham’s Last Christmas in her own inimitable style

Poppy in 2025
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Those amongst you who consider a crime for Christmas songs to be played before the clocks have gone back, look away now. You might have thought that metal-adjacent pop experimentalist Poppy would’ve been going all-in on the Halloween vibes at this point of the year, but instead she’s jumped ahead into the festive spirit and released a cover of a Christmas classic.

Working with regular collaborator and ex-Bring Me The Horizon man Jordan Fish, she’s just unveiled her amped-up, barbed take on Wham’s Last Christmas, a release for Spotify Singles.

Have a listen below.

Poppy's career has been full of surprises since the very start, from her emergence in the 2010s as an eccentric Youtube personality to her genre-hopping musical journey. 2024's well-received Negative Spaces album marked her biggest step into metal, teaming up with Jordan Fish to bring a new, heavier dimension to her sound.

“The feeling that I wanted to create at my shows lent itself more towards guitar music,” she told Metal Hammer last year. “Witnessing [metal] live and performing myself: it’s thrilling.”

Of working with Jordan Fish on the album, Poppy noted: “Jordan is wildly talented, and I am so lucky to call him a friend. Where he swings from creatively is exciting to me. His influences are very broad and, when we talk about music, I feel like we speak a similar language.”

Reviewing Negative Spaces for Metal Hammer, Merlin Alderslade wrote: "For album number six, Poppy has decided to hone in and focus her energies on creating a full-on modern metal record...Poppy might have obvious influences here, but she's channelled those into crafting one of the catchiest, most consistent metal records of 2024.

Niall Doherty
Niall Doherty

Niall Doherty is a writer and editor whose work can be found in Classic Rock, The Guardian, Music Week, FourFourTwo, Champions Journal, on Apple Music and more. Formerly the Deputy Editor of Q magazine, he co-runs the music Substack letter The New Cue with fellow former Q colleague Ted Kessler. He is also Reviews Editor at Record Collector. Over the years, he's interviewed some of the world's biggest stars, including Elton John, Coldplay, Radiohead, Liam and Noel Gallagher, Florence + The Machine, Arctic Monkeys, Muse, Pearl Jam, Depeche Mode, Robert Plant and more.

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