On the heels of the Smile (2007) and A la Vida! (2009), a pair of similarly styled albums that established her as one of Canada's most commercially successful vocal pop singers, Ima delivered the album Christmas in time for the holiday season. Like Smile and A la Vida!, Christmas was produced by Guy St-Onge, and is primarily comprised of familiar standards sung in both French and English. Unlike her past couple albums, however, the English-language material far outweighs the French. Indeed, it's not until the fourth track, "Marie-Noël," that at last she switches from English to French. Besides a couple other songs in French ("Ma Liste de Noël," "Joyeux Noël") and a medley that includes precious few passages from José Feliciano's "Feliz Navidad," everything else is sung in English. There are surprisingly few holiday favorites other than "The Christmas Song," "I'll Be Home for Christmas," and "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town." Ima instead performs time-worn standards such as "Over the Rainbow," "Dannyboy," and "Amazing Grace" that have a questionable relation to the holiday season. More interesting are covers of ABBA's "I Have a Dream" and Sarah McLachlan's "Angel." Another of the more interesting performances is a John Lennon medley that segues from "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" to "Imagine." All in all, only about half of Christmas is actually holiday-themed. This might disappoint some fans of the Quebecois singer. More troubling, unfortunately, is the emphasis on English-language material and overly familiar standards. For all her talent, the Montreal-born Ima is a better singer in French than English, and it's a shame that she doesn't do more of it here. Secondly, she's been criticized in the past for reviving material than has been performed to death, and Christmas is filled with her least interesting material to date.