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“I never really thought about how risqué we got with this song. “It’s kind of a subtle nod to the whole ‘Santa Claus Is Coming to Town’ thing,” says Stepakoff. In addition, they altered Santa’s proverbial list - “It’s nice to be naughty” - in a line that pretty much sums up the sexy tone.

It’s just a fun song.’ He was a sport about it, but I remember joking around with it like, ‘Let me explain Christmas to you, Scott, in case you don’t know.’ “ It was more like, ‘Hey, do you want to write a Christmas song? We don’t want to force this on you.’ And he was like, ‘Everybody loves Santa Claus. It wasn’t being funny, and it wasn’t belittling his faith. “So we had to have a whole talk with him about it. “What’s funny is Scott’s Jewish,” notes Osborne. The animation was balanced against a good-natured schooling about the meaning of Christmas. “Shane gets so animated and excited when somebody has a cool idea,” notes Stepakoff. McAnally was like a kid on Christmas morning over that concept. “I had that idea, you know - Santa better knock before he comes down the chimney because we’re going to be getting on the naughty list,” says Osborne. They had been told that Reba McEntire and Carrie Underwood were considering Christmas projects, and Osborne supplied the cheeky title. McAnally wrote it in May 2010 with Josh Osborne (“Hard To Forget,” “One Man Band”) and Scott Stepakoff (“She’s Mine,” “Mary Was the Marrying Kind”) in an upstairs office on Music Row. “Santa Better Knock” oddly rivals “The Twelve Days of Christmas” - not because it involves a countdown, but because it required almost 12 years of Christmases before it saw the light of day. Deep Dive: Unwrapping Today's Christmas Music Market