{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Homemade Christmas | type = EP | artist = Trixie Mattel | cover = Homemade Christmas - Trixie Mattel.jpg | alt = | released = {{Start date|2017|12|01}} | genre = Christmas | length = 7:49 | label = Self-released | producer = | prev_title = Two Birds | prev_year = 2017 | next_title = One Stone | next_year = 2018 }}
'''''Homemade Christmas''''' is an EP by American drag queen Trixie Mattel, released on December 1, 2017.<ref name="Instinct">{{Cite journal|url=http://instinctmagazine.com/post/trixie-mattel-serves-homemade-christmas-holiday-tracks|title=Trixie Mattel Serves Up a 'Homemade Christmas' with Holiday Tracks|first=David|last=Lopez|date=December 1, 2017|journal=Instinct|access-date=March 22, 2018|issn=1096-0058|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180317231953/http://instinctmagazine.com/post/trixie-mattel-serves-homemade-christmas-holiday-tracks|archive-date=March 17, 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newnownext.com/queer-gay-christmas-holiday-albums-lgbt/11/2017/|title=Have Yourself a Queer Little Christmas with These New Holiday Albums|publisher=Logo TV|website=NewNowNext|first=Christopher|last=Rudolph|date=November 24, 2017|access-date=April 11, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180317231931/http://www.newnownext.com/queer-gay-christmas-holiday-albums-lgbt/11/2017/|archive-date=March 17, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>
==Background and release== Brian Michael Firkus, better known by the stage name Trixie Mattel, competed in the seventh season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race'' in 2015. After appearing on ''Drag Race'', Mattel appeared in the web series ''UNHhhh'' on WOWPresents with fellow season seven contestant Katya Zamolodchikova, known mononymously as Katya. The duo later went on to star in ''The Trixie & Katya Show'', which premiered on Viceland on November 15, 2017.<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.papermag.com/hold-on-to-your-wigs-katya-and-trixie-mattel-are-getting-their-own-tv-show-2474558266.html|title=Hold On to Your Wigs: Katya and Trixie Mattel Are Getting Their Own TV Show|last1=Cuby|first1=Michael|date=August 18, 2017|journal=Paper|access-date=April 11, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180410191403/http://www.papermag.com/hold-on-to-your-wigs-katya-and-trixie-mattel-are-getting-their-own-tv-show-2474558266.html|archive-date=April 10, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/trixie-and-katya-show-tvs-best-new-talk-show-hosts-are-two-drag-queens|title='Trixie and Katya Show': TV's Best New Talk Show Hosts Are Two Drag Queens|last=Fallon|first=Kevin|date=November 15, 2017|work=The Daily Beast|access-date=April 11, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171116004341/https://www.thedailybeast.com/trixie-and-katya-show-tvs-best-new-talk-show-hosts-are-two-drag-queens|archive-date=November 16, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>
Prior to ''Homemade Christmas'', Trixie Mattel released the country album ''Two Birds'' in May 2017. Katya appears on the holiday EP, which was released on December 1, 2017 via Apple Music, iTunes, and Spotify.<ref name=Instinct/>
==Composition== [[File:Katya Zamolodchikova 3.jpg|thumb|right|upright|"The Night Before Contact" features Katya (pictured in 2015), a fellow contestant on the seventh season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race''.]]
''Homemade Christmas'' includes three acoustic tracks of holiday music. Lyrically, "Christmas Without You" is about loneliness during the season.<ref name=Instinct/> "The Night Before Contact" is a parody of "A Visit from St. Nicholas" (more commonly known as "'Twas the Night Before Christmas"), performed by Katya.<ref name=Instinct/> "All I Want for Christmas Is Nudes" is a parody of Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You".<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/pride/8054867/gay-agenda-dec-1-danica-roem-trixie-mattel-sakima|title=Gay Agenda, Dec. 1: Virginia Delegate-Elect Danica Roem Is a Metal Head; Plus Trixie Mattel, Sakima, & More|magazine=Billboard|access-date=April 11, 2018|date=December 1, 2017|first=Chris|last=Malone|issn=0006-2510|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180515065726/https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/pride/8054867/gay-agenda-dec-1-danica-roem-trixie-mattel-sakima|archive-date=May 15, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Crowley">{{cite magazine|last1=Crowley|first1=Patrick|title=Willam Gives Santa a Lap Dance in 'Ho Ho Ho Ho' Music Video|magazine=Billboard|date=December 11, 2017|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/holiday/8063660/willam-ho-ho-ho-ho-music-video|access-date=April 11, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180428030840/https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/holiday/8063660/willam-ho-ho-ho-ho-music-video|archive-date=April 28, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>
==Reception== ''Instinct''{{'s}} David Lopez said "Christmas Without You" was reminiscent of Trixie Mattel's previous studio album. He said of "The Night Before Contact": "Personally, after hearing this, I think Katya could be the new voice of the omnipresent narrator if they ever remade ''How the Grinch Stole Christmas!''"<ref name="Instinct"/>
==Track listing== {{Track listing | headline = ''Homemade Christmas'' track listing | title1 = Christmas Without You | length1 = 2:21 | writer1 = Brian Firkus | title2 = The Night Before Contact | length2 = 2:25 | note2 = featuring Katya Zamolodchikova | writer2 = {{hlist|Firkus|Brian McCook|Disputed author}} | title3 = All I Want for Christmas Is Nudes | length3 = 3:03 | writer3 = {{hlist|Firkus|Mariah Carey|Walter Afanasieff}} | total_length = 7:49 }}
'''Notes'''
* "The Night Before Contact" is a parody of the poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas", written either by Clement Clarke Moore or Henry Livingston Jr., based on the film ''Contact''. * "All I Want for Christmas Is Nudes" is a parody of "All I Want for Christmas Is You", written by Mariah Carey and Walter Afanasieff, and performed by Carey.
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{Cite web|url=http://worldofwonder.net/rupauls-drag-race-alum-trixie-mattel-releases-3-song-christmas-ep/|title=RuPaul's Drag Race Alum Trixie Mattel Released a 3-Song Christmas EP: Homemade Christmas|first=Alexander|last=Liley-Roth|date=December 1, 2017|publisher=World of Wonder}}
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