In Netflix’s new vacation rom-com “Christmas With You,” Aimee Garcia performs Angelina, a Latin pop star coping with profession burnout who’s tasked with writing the following “All I Want For Christmas Is You”-level vacation track. Garcia steps into the function of the singing-dancing extraordinaire so seamlessly that one may assume she’s really a pop star. So, is Aimee Garcia actually singing in “Christmas With You”?
The reply is sure, and Garcia, who is just not a skilled singer — imagine it or not — tells POPSUGAR taking up the function of a world pop sensation was “terrifying.” While Garcia has some singing expertise after recording a track for a season 5 musical episode of Netflix’s “Lucifer,” the function of Angelina offered a complete new problem.
“Netflix had provided me this function in ‘Christmas With You’ due to the musical episode on ‘Lucifer,’ however I barely sang and danced [for that],” Garcia says. “And [I] might or might not have taken a shot of tequila within the sound sales space. I can not verify nor deny.” Making issues much more intimidating, Garcia was on a time crunch to nail Angelina’s powerhouse vocals. “I solely had three days to be taught all of the songs . . . so once they stated, ‘You’re going to play knowledgeable singer with a number of Grammys and platinum information worldwide,’ I had a minor panic assault.”
Panic assault quantity two got here when Garcia heard which pop stars the producers behind “Christmas With You” have been hoping for Garcia to emulate. “[When I asked], ‘What form of voice are you guys pondering?’ And they’re like, ‘Oh, you understand, Mariah Carey, Kelly Clarkson.’ ‘Oh, so one of the best singers of our technology?’ I stated, ‘Not gonna occur in three days.'”
In the tip, Garcia let go of the doubts in her head and as a substitute studied pop legends like Madonna and Britney Spears, whose legacies helped her attain an encouraging epiphany. “Their efficiency is simple, proper? They are pop stars. They are legends,” she says. “And I stated, ‘I’m simply going to guide with my strengths of dancing efficiency and sing from the center . . . And that is all I can do.”
According to her costar Freddie Prinze Jr., who performs Miguel, the widowed music instructor who reignites Angelina’s ardour for writing, Garcia is not giving herself sufficient credit score. “Girl, they minimize a soundtrack and are releasing it . . . since you killed it so good,” Prinze Jr. says. “They do not try this until it is good!”
You can watch Garcia exhibit her pop-star-level singing and dancing expertise in “Christmas With You,” streaming now on Netflix.
