Janet Devlin’s “Happy Holidays”: Watch A Super Cute Video For The ‘December Daze’ Song

Last winter, onetime UK X Factor contestant Janet Devlin made her US debut with her album Running With Scissors. Since then, the Irish singer went about recording December Daze, her cute-as-a-button holiday-themed EP that’s due out November 27th. In addition to the five-track collection’s title track and covers of such festive favorites as “River,” “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas” and “Silent Night,” Devlin also recorded an original track titled, simply, “Happy Holidays.”

To mark Janet’s 21st birthday today (November 12), Idolator is premiering an adorable making-of video showing the singer in the studio, cutting her EP.

Janet gives Idolator the full lowdown on her “Happy Holidays” behind-the-scenes clip:

This track was born through the beauty of procrastination. I’d just started working on this Christmas EP and I should have been selecting tracks for the project — however, I got a little distracted by my ukulele. I thought it’d be fun to attempt to write my own Christmas track, as I’d spent a week listening to only Christmas songs. It wasn’t until I started writing it that I realized that every sentimental line for a chorus had already been used, so I thought it’d be rather humorous to throw everything into the mix —  hence the line “have yourself a merry happy jolly festive Christmas time” came to be. As this is the first track of mine to be released that was written solely by myself, I thought it’d be fun to attempt to play the instruments on it as well. Along with the vocals, I’m playing drums, ukulele, glockenspiel and other bits like the bells and shakers and with some magic production dust they’ve managed to become a part of the track. As this song has such a carefree fun vibe, I knew that it’d perfect to film the whole process. It was guaranteed that there would be a few laughs along the way.

Watch Janet making some yuletide memories while recording “Happy Holidays” above, and be sure to check out her PledgeMusic page for the EP or order a physical copy here.