"Wrap Me Up" is a song by American comedian Jimmy Fallon and singer-songwriter Meghan Trainor, included on the former's third studio album, Holiday Seasoning (2024). Fallon and Trainor wrote it with songwriter Sean Douglas and its producer, Gian Stone. Republic Records released it as a single on November 17, 2023. A doo-wop, hip hop, and Christmas song, "Wrap Me Up" is written as a duet on which two narrators exchange flirtatious lyrics in a call-and-response format. One of them expresses curiosity about their Christmas gift and the other one withholds the answer before offering themself as the gift.
Considering her a great performer and songwriter and admiring how she handled a 2016 incident where she fell while performing her song "Me Too" on his show, Fallon had "always wanted to do something" with Trainor.[4][5][1] He sent her a recording of an idea called "Wrap It Up", which was about wrapping presents, but did not immediately receive a response.[4][5] Trainor eventually agreed to the collaboration but changed its lyrics, renaming it to "Wrap Me Up" because she thought Fallon's concept "sound[ed] like condoms". Fallon, Trainor, Douglas, and Stone completed the song over a FaceTime call, during which Trainor described being "so nervous [her] heart was in [her] ass".[6][7]
Fallon said that he really liked the holidays while announcing "Wrap Me Up".[8] Playing a snippet of the song on his show, he stated: "This song is a bop. The song is a banger. This song eats. This song slaps."[9]Republic Records released it as a single on November 17, 2023,[10] and sent it to contemporary hit radio stations in the United States three days later.[11] The music video, in which Fallon and Trainor sing in red-and-green outfits, aired on Fallon's show on December 13, 2023.[12] In November 2024, "Wrap Me Up" was included on the former's third studio album, Holiday Seasoning.[13]
Composition
"Wrap Me Up" is two minutes and twenty-eight seconds long.[10] Stone produced the song; Stone and Trainor handled vocal production, and they also served as the recording engineers alongside John Arbuckle and Mike Wozniak. Ben Rice played the guitar, and Kurt Thum performed the programming. Stone, Fallon, Trainor and her brother Justin provided the background vocals. The song's mixing was done by Serban Ghenea, with assistance from Bryce Bordone, and Randy Merrill handled mastering.[6]
Billboard's Lars Brandle described "Wrap Me Up" as "a throwback doo-wop-meets-hip-hopCrimbo number", and People's Jack Irvin called it a Christmas duet.[1][5] The song's flirtatious lyrics are written as a call-and-response duet, with Fallon voicing the narrator who is curious about his Christmas gift and Trainor the one who playfully withholds the answer and later presents herself as the gift. In the lyrics, Fallon asks Trainor what present she is giving him for Christmas, speculating that it could be a number of things like a drone, a razor, a Maserati, or a Bugatti.[5][14] Trainor replies that the present is her: "Is it Boujee? / Like Gucci? / Man, I thought I had it / No, baby, you're lookin' at it."[9] In the song's chorus, they sing together about wanting someone to wrap their arms around them during Christmastime and describe themselves as "the whole damn package".[4]
Reception
Critical reception for "Wrap Me Up" was positive, with praise directed towards its production. iHeartRadio's Rebekah Gonzalez thought that like everything associated with Trainor—it was incredibly catchy.[15] Sydni Ellis of SheKnows described "Wrap Me Up" as a "banger",[16] and Jackie Manno of NBC wrote that it completely met the expectations of it being a Christmas hit.[17] Writing for American Songwriter, Matthew Wilson believed the song was alluring, thrifty, and, above all, it was catchy, and he described the chorus as charmingly playful.[4]
Fallon and Trainor performed "Wrap Me Up" live for the first time at Jimmy Kimmel Live! on November 27, 2023. Trainor dressed up as a red-colored Christmas tree, with her dress bearing pictures of her husband and sons, and Fallon was clad in a red velvet tuxedo, accompanied by four festively-dressed backup dancers and vocalists. It was followed by Fallon going onto a street and distributing presents to passers-by, which he uploaded as a social media post while stating his excitement about the song and for people to hear it.[1][9][5] Trainor also performed the song with Fallon as part of her set list for the Jingle Ball in 2024.[25]
