I like Christmas music. It’s joyful and fun to sing along to. Yes, maybe I’m a weird-o but honestly, it’s generally well written and we usually get new interpretations of the classics every year.
I have a suspicion that some of the people claim to hate Christmas because it’s in vogue to hate it. Oh, I know I’ll get tons of pushback, and that’s OK. But when I hear people drag out that cliché, I just have to roll my eyes.
For a reference point, I have worked in environments that played it non-stop during the season.
I don’t hate it because it’s in vogue to hate it. I don’t do anything at all for that reason. I find Christmas music, with the exception of certain hymns, to be sentimental dreck. There’s a lot of sentimental dreck out there but most of it doesn’t run on a loop wherever you go. I don’t listen to the music of the 1940’s which is where the large portion of this stuff was born. Except maybe the Lennon Sisters. I also do not aspire to be jolly at any time, and am offended by efforts to make me so. “Christmas” was invented by Charles Dickens and Queen Victoria. It should have died with them.
Do you know of any Lennon Sisters videos of Christmas songs? I liked a non Christmas video ‘Do the Watusi’ that was great but haven’t watched anything others.
The only part of Love, Actually I can stand to watch without rolling my eyes:
Bill Nye, who I elsewhere cannot stand, does a perfect rendition of a Christmas standard as ‘reimagined’ by some merging of Robert Palmer, David Bowie, and Iggy Pop; salacious, sickening, and stupid all at once. This should be the song that comes on every time someone asks for that fucking awful Mariah Carey song.
Every year I take my immediate family to Merry Merry in Chicago. It is the Chicago Symphony Orchestra playing Christmas tunes. They do it every year and I am making it in to a tradition. My family kinda groans about it but either they feel the need to humor me or (more likely I think) they genuinely enjoy it. Going this weekend. Looking forward to it!
I won’t listen to this music all year but, in the season, I love it.
We had the T5 mini light bulbs. As the youngest the task was usually passed down to me to untangle the strings of lights and then test them. If a string didn’t light up I had to go one-by-one to find the light that was broken/burnt out and replace it to get the string working again. Usually while listening to Christmas music though.
I know they are better today but back then…one bad light and the whole string stopped working.
Same thing with C7 bulbs and me being the youngest. I recall some weird oversized bulb, no idea where it came from, that had the same base as the others and using that to temporarily replace blinkers during testing.
