If you weren’t wearing your glasses during “The Kacey Musgraves Christmas Show,” you might have thought you were watching some sort of Cher retrospective. Musgraves, a Grammy-winning country star, was channeling the pop icon, from her shiny waterfall of black hair down to her many outfits including a feathered sheer bodysuit reminiscent of Cher’s renowned 1974 Bob Mackie number. It was no coincidence.

Musgraves told The New York Times that her holiday special, which premiered on Amazon Prime last month, was indeed modeled after variety shows of decades past, namely Cher’s titular show from the ’70s and the Judy Garland Christmas special from the ’60s — “things that I love like that, but with a very fresh, modern take,” she said.

In recent years, she is just one of a handful of celebrities to try to reinvigorate, but not necessarily reinvent, the classic TV tradition of Christmas variety shows.

This month, NBC aired “Holidays With the Houghs,” a new special from the brother-sister duo Derek and Julianne Hough, and reran John Legend and Chrissy Teigen’s “A Legendary Christmas With John and Chrissy” from 2018 as well as Gwen Stefani’s “You Make It Feel Like Christmas” from 2017. Bill Murray’s 2015 special, “A Very Murray Christmas” on Netflix, scored an Emmy nomination.