The EP includes five original songs and three 'whimsical' interludes with Cummings ('Santa's Not So Little Helper', 'Nina the Extra Elf', and 'The West Christmas Ever'). I still can't believe I have his voice on my EP. He agreed really quickly and we did three takes but the first was the one we used as it was prefect.
I instantly fell in love with him as a person and when this project was all coming together I knew there was no one I would rather narrate my EP than Jim. West described herself as a 'lifelong Disney fan' who was 'hyper aware of Jim for a long time': 'His voice is synonymous with so many Disney characters that you likely are a fan of his without knowing it'. In a Billboard interview, she recalled that he agreed to participate 'without batting a lash'. Needing someone to voice Santa Claus and tie the songs together, West recruited Cummings.
She met American voice actor and singer Jim Cummings in August, at a D23 event through Cummings' ex-wife and daughter, who are fans of RuPaul's Drag Race, the American reality television series in which Nina West competed ( season 11). She completed five songs, which she described as 'very different' and representative of 'all of these different parts of Andrew and Nina respectively, and my sensibilities around the holidays, both in and out of drag'. Nina West (Andrew Levitt's drag persona) began work on the project in July 2019. The EP features Jim Cummings (pictured in 2018).
