Bugged by Target's Xmas commercials (Joy to the World)

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This is probably too trivial to be a real thread. Just consider it a rant. Join me if you wish.

Target is running a series of commercials for the holidays, which use “Joy to the World” as its music. Not the Christmas carol; the Three Dog Night, Jeremiah was a bullfrog one.

That’s just so…dumb. So wrong. So…anti-christmas. “Let’s kinda refer to a christmas carol, but make it edgy & in-your-face.”

Bugs the crap out of me.

And it reminds me of the joke/urban legend about the bride-to-be, who told her wedding planner that she wanted “that Robin Hood song” played at her wedding, thinking of “Everything I Do (I do for you)”. But when she started to march down the aisle, she got “Robin Hood, Robin Hood, riding through the glen…”.

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I like it. Given their ubiquity, it’s better than having to hear yet another awful recycle /remake of a worn-out Christmas tune. Plus it’s more inclusive.

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He gives to the poor, and robs from the rich.
Stupid bitch…

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Yeah, a recycle/remake of a worn-out pop tune is a big improvement.

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“…Robin Hood, Robin Hood, with his band of men,
Feared by the bad, loved by the good,
Robin Hood, Robin Hood, Robin Hood.”

or, Dennis Moore, take your pick.