{"id":118982,"date":"2024-12-18T21:01:42","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T21:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/12\/18\/elton-john-taps-cara-delevingne-for-step-into-christmas-video\/"},"modified":"2024-12-18T21:01:42","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T21:01:42","slug":"elton-john-taps-cara-delevingne-for-step-into-christmas-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/12\/18\/elton-john-taps-cara-delevingne-for-step-into-christmas-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Elton John taps Cara Delevingne for &#8216;Step Into Christmas&#8217; video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-12-18\/M_CaraDelivigneasElton_121824.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Photo Credit: Thomas Morgan @mrtmorgan <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Elton John<\/strong> is offering up some Christmas cheer with the release of a new video for his\u00a0classic holiday track &#8220;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dVptrkqoUDc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Step Into Christmas<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The new video features model\/actress <strong>Cara Delevingne\u00a0<\/strong>as Elton and reimagines the behind-the-scenes action during the making of the original &#8217;70s video as his team attempts to make the clip \u201c<\/span><span class=\"s2\">Christmassy enough.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Elton\u00a0says\u00a0the idea to work with Cara came after he saw her at Glastonbury last summer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cShe\u2019s hilarious to spend time with; we both have quite a self-deprecating sense of humor,\u201d Elton shares. \u201cWhen someone suggested the idea of her playing me in a riff on the 1973 \u2018Step Into Christmas\u2019 video, I just thought it was the perfect opportunity. Thank God Cara thought the same because it came out great.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Cara\u00a0adds that being asked to play Elton \u201cwas a dream that I didn\u2019t know I had until it happened,\u201d noting, \u201cHonestly, I wish I could pretend to be Elton every day. I hope that Elton may one day return the favor and agree to play me in my not-yet-developed, written, pitched, or funded biopic. Fingers crossed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Released in November 1973, &#8220;Step Into Christmas&#8221; hit #1 on the\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Billboard<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> Christmas Singles chart and has subsequently spent\u00a044 weeks on the <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Billboard<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> Holiday Airplay chart.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In other Elton news &#8230; \u201cNever Too Late,\u201d the song featured in his Disney+ documentary\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Elton John: Never Too Late<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, has been nominated for a 2025 SCL Award, handed out by the Society of Composers &amp; Lyricists. The song, written by Elton,\u00a0<strong>Brandi Carlile<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Bernie Taupin\u00a0<\/strong>and producer\u00a0<strong>Andrew Watt<\/strong>, is nominated in the Outstanding Original Song for a Dramatic or Documentary Visual Media Production category.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Winners will be announced at the SCL\u2019s\u00a0sixth annual awards ceremony Feb. 12 in Los Angeles.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"raw-html-embed\"><iframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dVptrkqoUDc\" title=\"Elton John - Step Into Christmas (2024 Music Video)\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo Credit: Thomas Morgan @mrtmorgan Elton John is offering up some Christmas cheer with the release of a new video for his\u00a0classic holiday track &#8220;Step Into Christmas.&#8221; The new video features model\/actress Cara Delevingne\u00a0as Elton and reimagines the behind-the-scenes action during the making of the original &#8217;70s video as his<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/12\/18\/elton-john-taps-cara-delevingne-for-step-into-christmas-video\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,430,452],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118982"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}