Last Christmas, you were still watching the music video for Wham!’s “Last Christmas” in its original formatting.
This year, to save you from tears, Sony Music Entertainment remastered the footage in 4K.
And the ’80s (and George Michael) have never looked so good.
Released 35 years ago this month, the festive synth-pop track has become something of a holiday anthem.
Once the most-played Christmas song of the 21st century in the UK (leapfrogged in 2015 by “Fairytale of New York”), “Last Christmas” even helped birth the annual tradition of Whamageddon, in which folks aim to make it from Dec. 1 to 24 without hearing the original tune.
It’s worth losing the game, though, just to watch this stunning update.
The four-and-a-half-minute movie looks like a bunch of people cosplaying as a Wham! music video—complete with big shoulder pads, even bigger hair, colorful shell suits, and crossfades.
I can assure you, though, that these are not actors playing actors playing scorned lovers.
From the first close-up of a car tire to the final opening of the ski-lift doors, the remaster accentuates every snowflake, pine needle, and pore. It even removes that blurry effect (you know, the one from the first season of RuPaul’s Drag Race).
Colors are brighter, pixels are sharper, people’s faces are actually visible.
You can, of course, continue to slum it with the 480p version of the video. But the official 4K rendering is a real feast for the eyes.
Since its premiere on Dec. 13, the clip—now trending on YouTube—has been seen more than 2,465,000 times (a mere 0.5 percent of the original, published online in October 2009).
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