Released as an exclusive at Target stores for the holiday season of 2007, the year between
Taylor Swift
's 2006 debut and her 2007 breakthrough
Fearless
,
The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection
balances
Swift
's pop and country roots quite well. She contributes two originals -
"Christmases When You Were Mine"
and
"Christmas Must Be Something More"
-- to a collection that features the classics
"Santa Baby,"
"Silent Night,"
"White Christmas,"
Wham!
's modern-day standard
"Last Christmas,"
giving them all crisp, cheerful arrangements that are suitably seasonal but also faithful to her bright country-pop. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine