Let's talk about Christmas music
There’s no easy way to sugarcoat this, so I’ll just come right out and say it. I hate Christmas music.
I just can’t stand it. And it’s everywhere.
You go to the gas station, there’s White Christmas. You go to the grocery store, there’s Jingle Bells. You go to the mall, there’s The Little Drummer Boy. And, as an added slap in the face, you turn on the radio — to any popular music station — and there’s some low-rate cover of I Saw Momma Kissing Santa Claus or a “new classic” like Band Aid’s Do They Know It’s Christmas or Last Christmas by WHAM!
Wow. That’s great. George Michael singing about Christmas. I guess we all know what he wants under the tree.
I swear, the soundtrack in hell is littered with Christmas music, and all of Satan’s minions are working to the beat of Here Comes Santa Claus.
I’d say something like “we have to band together and do something about the travesty,” but everybody is so apesh** about this holiday and busy going from party to party (half of which they don’t want to be at) that I don’t think I would get much support.
And I know a lot of people LOVE Christmas music, and that’s all fine and good. But this is my blog and I want it on record that I want to scream every time I hear Bing Crosby sing any of his holiday staples and that Mariah Carrey song drives me nuts.
Bahhhhh.
I do like one Christmas song, Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want To Fight) by the Ramones.
Check it out below.
I just can’t stand it. And it’s everywhere.
You go to the gas station, there’s White Christmas. You go to the grocery store, there’s Jingle Bells. You go to the mall, there’s The Little Drummer Boy. And, as an added slap in the face, you turn on the radio — to any popular music station — and there’s some low-rate cover of I Saw Momma Kissing Santa Claus or a “new classic” like Band Aid’s Do They Know It’s Christmas or Last Christmas by WHAM!
Wow. That’s great. George Michael singing about Christmas. I guess we all know what he wants under the tree.
I swear, the soundtrack in hell is littered with Christmas music, and all of Satan’s minions are working to the beat of Here Comes Santa Claus.
I’d say something like “we have to band together and do something about the travesty,” but everybody is so apesh** about this holiday and busy going from party to party (half of which they don’t want to be at) that I don’t think I would get much support.
And I know a lot of people LOVE Christmas music, and that’s all fine and good. But this is my blog and I want it on record that I want to scream every time I hear Bing Crosby sing any of his holiday staples and that Mariah Carrey song drives me nuts.
Bahhhhh.
I do like one Christmas song, Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want To Fight) by the Ramones.
Check it out below.
posted by Eric LaRose at
8:53 AM
2 Comments:
I am so glad I'm not the only one! Christmas music has been playing since before Thanksgiving in some places!! Auuuggghh!!
My wife can't get enough of that damned James Taylor Christmas disc. He should be shot.
The absolute worst is going into a K Mart. They have their own radio network and only use Christmas songs from drunken karaoke bars for the tone deaf!!
After 10 minutes my ears were bleeding!
Make it stop!!!
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Anonymous, at 9:13 PM
Yeah! And you just can't escape.
The soundtrack of life should not include any verson of the 12 days of Christmas.
And, AND, you ever go to one of these places that has recordings of kids singing Christmas songs?
It's awful! The producers even go so far as to make sure they are all sing off key.
It's not cute. It was never cute. It's sick and wrong I tells ya.
I for one can't wait until February when Christmas officially ends.
By
Eric LaRose, at 10:51 PM
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