Lil Nas X is the new Santa in his teaser for upcoming Christmas jam, "Holiday"

Here’s an interesting product of the pandemic: More than a few artists are using the downtime to release unexpected holiday music, from Dolly Parton to the Goo Goo Dolls. While genre-bending rapper Lil Nas X hasn’t exactly announced plans for a full Christmas album, he’s still seemingly getting into the Yuletide spirit with a song called “Holiday,” which he teased during Sunday night’s NFL match-up between the New Orleans Saints and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. But if a parade of “Old Town Road” remixes have taught us anything, it’s that nothing involving the highly memed artist can be simple. Ergo, it’s not enough for Lil Nas X to dress as jolly St. Nick and hand out presents in the snow. Instead, he’s a time-traveling cowboy who essentially enters a Santa Clause-ian contract and becomes the Big Guy In Red, just in time to presumably save the holiday. It’s a mash-up between a Tim Allen classic and, for reasons unknown, Back To The Future III. Honestly, that can’t be weirder than anything else we’ve endured this year.