Pa rum pum pum pum...Schmaltzy?!

So recently I've been listening to lots of lovely music including Beegie Adair - a jazz pianist originally from Kentucky (fried chicken)... Spotify has provided me with her endless covers of jazz classics along with some jazzed up christmas tunes.
So the story goes... once upon a time at the dinner table (this evening in fact), Adair's version of 'The little drummer boy' came on. I'm not a fan of this song at all, mainly because 'pa rum pum pum pum' in my opinion shouldn't be sung quite so seriously as it is on the original track. However, Beegie Adair takes the melody and transforms the whole idiotic song into something very listenable and even relaxing. And then.... a member of my family who is a musical person... says 'I don't know... I think it's a bit Schmaltzy'
Schmaltzy!?  - I had a wee google of the meaning...

schmaltzy [ʃmæltsɪ ʃmɔːltsɪ]

adj -ier, -iest

excessively sentimental (cheers the free dictionary.com)

Well, I find the word schmaltzy almost as funny as 'pa rum pum pum pum' haha. And I don't agree at all, I think it's a beautiful version of the silly song. However, I'm very grateful to have learnt a new word and look forward to using it in the near future. (Though I do admit, I love and appreciate sentimentality and so I don't think I would describe anything as 'excessively sentimental' unless it really was over the top x1000)

It seems one of the most beautiful things about differences in opinion is learning new adjectives. 

I would highly reccomend giving Adair's version of the song a listen sometime soon and making up your own mind about it and also...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzunrAlnOiI 

have a wee click on, or copy an paste that beauty. If you have time, bend your lovely ears in to listen to the lyrics and enjoy the incredible crescendo in the instrumental. Now that's what I call snow music.