# Hatin' on Christmas music! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [December 20, 2023, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hatin-on-christmas-music/994897 "2023-12-20T18:18:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2023, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hatin-on-christmas-music/994897/41 "2023-12-21T07:50:47Z")
> [@solost](#): > > Not exactly _ **hatin’** _ on The 12 Days of Christmas, but the song makes no sense to me. You’re not alone [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/DD34J0uO5QU/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AHqAoAC4AOKAgwIABABGH8gWighMA8=&rs=AOn4CLBaXLLXRfGz72CfP4jqb6EyzoMZSg "Yet Another Partridge In A Pear Tree") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DD34J0uO5QU) ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2023, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hatin-on-christmas-music/994897/42 "2023-12-21T14:54:05Z")
3 posts were merged into an existing topic: [Hijack of thread new poster landogoshen](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijack-of-thread-new-poster-landogoshen/994927/14) ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2023, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hatin-on-christmas-music/994897/45 "2023-12-21T08:37:11Z")
Wow! Those two post sold me on some serious hatin’🤔 ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2023, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hatin-on-christmas-music/994897/46 "2023-12-21T09:46:42Z")
> [@mjmartin](#): > > Christmas Shoes is hands down the worst piece of shit that they play at Christmas. It has no redeeming qualities. I don’t know what I find more annoying, the song itself, or the people that get all teary eyed about it. I concur. The worst drivel. > [@solost](#): > > Do they know it’s Christmas time at all? second worst drivel. > [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Grandma needed to get run over by a reindeer Funny once joke… and that was in 1979. Not funny twice a hour. > [@kitap](#): > > I would rather listen to non-stop barking dogs for 24 hours than Feliz Navidad once. Fleas gnawed my dog… However, I dont mind it… as long as it isnt on constant rotation… which it always is. Jose Feliciano is pretty cool. ---
**Author:** ![ColdBrew50](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9a140/32.png) [@ColdBrew50](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ColdBrew50)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2023, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hatin-on-christmas-music/994897/47 "2023-12-21T10:07:50Z")
All of it. It must burn. I do like “Silent Night,” and Vince Guaraldi’s “Christmas Time is Here,” and “Greensleeves/What Child is This.” But that’s it. ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2023, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hatin-on-christmas-music/994897/48 "2023-12-21T10:33:11Z")
I can’t think of a secular Christmas song I can stand. Most of the religious ones are tolerable (since I’m a Christian and all) but Mary Don’t You Know makes me gag. I prefer my Christmas music to be pre-1700’s. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2023, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hatin-on-christmas-music/994897/49 "2023-12-21T11:08:26Z")
I’d go into the 1700s. Nothing quite lifts the spirits like the opening of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, and the Christmas parts of Messiah. But I suppose even they would grate if on a loop at the supermarket. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2023, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hatin-on-christmas-music/994897/50 "2023-12-21T12:02:50Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Click at your own peril. I will say it comes in an eye-catching package. But OMG, that audio is quite something. As you said, “twee” about sums it up. Plus over-the-top USA Southern Fried religion. Although in its defense, the lyrics are a bit hard to understand so if you’re not paying attention to more than the music & the woman’s accent it could be just another vaguely countrified variant of Neal Sedaka’s various works. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2023, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hatin-on-christmas-music/994897/51 "2023-12-21T14:41:48Z")
> [@solost](#): > > Not exactly _ **hatin’** _ on The 12 Days of Christmas, but the song makes no sense to me. The likely reason for that is it’s really a game which got set to music at some point. > **[The Twelve Days of Christmas (song) | Manner of performance](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twelve_Days_of_Christmas_(song)#Manner_of_performance)** > > Many early sources suggest that The Twelve Days of Christmas was a "memory-and-forfeits" game, in which participants were required to repeat a verse of poetry recited by the leader. Players who made an error were required to pay a penalty, in the form of offering a kiss or confection. > Halliwell, writing in 1842, stated that "\[e\]ach child in succession repeats the gifts of the day, and forfeits for each mistake." > Salmon, writing from Newcastle, claimed in 1855 that the song "\[had\] been, up to wi... ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2023, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hatin-on-christmas-music/994897/52 "2023-12-21T14:44:23Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Feliz-fucking-Navidad. OMG! I just said this yesterday. The last four times I started my car, this was playing on the radio. Hate it! ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2023, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hatin-on-christmas-music/994897/53 "2023-12-21T14:52:24Z")
Besides Feliz Navidad as mentioned above, I also really hate: Jingle Bells - bonus hates if there’s a “ha, ha, ha, ha” after the “laughing all the way” line. Little Sandy Sleighfoot - awful Susie Snowflake - UGH All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth - especially when an adult sings it like they’re a little kid with missing teeth. I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas Christmas Shoes There are more that I don’t mind, but am just sick of. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2023, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hatin-on-christmas-music/994897/54 "2023-12-21T15:09:54Z")
“All I Want For Christmas Is You” The song is probably OK, but I despise Mariah Carey. Someone should introduce her to “Less is more.” ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2023, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hatin-on-christmas-music/994897/55 "2023-12-21T15:31:53Z")
> [@deltogre](#): > > Every single version of “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year.” About that time of year when you sit around a campfire, toasting marshmallows and telling ghost stories. You know – Xmas. Most of mine have been mentioned except for “It’s A Marshmallow World”. I have seen a lot of snow in my lifetime and I don’t remember ever thinking to myself “OMG!! SNOW IS AMAZEBALLS!!!” (although it looks nice on occasion). And now Youtube’s algorithm has decided I would love seeing the same ad for Sephora using that song over and over again. ---
**Author:** ![XOldiesJock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ec9cab/32.png) [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2023, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hatin-on-christmas-music/994897/56 "2023-12-21T15:36:19Z")
I just thought of another one that makes my ears bleed. **“Baby Please Come Home”** by either Darlene Love or U2. Doesn’t matter who. The song pretty much amounts to Miss Love (or Bono) screaming the title at high pitch over and over again. What a downer. I’ve always found the Spike Jones and his City Slickers version of **All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth** amusing, but you never hear it. The song is supposed to be funny: George Rock singing in his squeaky child-like voice, with Spike and the band’s goofy musical shenanigans in the middle. It doesn’t make any sense when sung straight, as Nat King Cole and many others did. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2023, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hatin-on-christmas-music/994897/57 "2023-12-21T18:04:35Z")
> [@XOldiesJock](#): > > **“Baby Please Come Home”** by either Darlene Love or U2. Doesn’t matter who. The song pretty much amounts to Miss Love (or Bono) screaming the title at high pitch over and over again. What a downer. I find Death Cab For Cutie’s version to be pretty solid. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/GAHX_XOFuQk/maxresdefault.jpg "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAHX_XOFuQk) ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2023, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hatin-on-christmas-music/994897/58 "2023-12-21T18:06:20Z")
Is there a happy birthday Christmas song? Happy day, @Smapti !! ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2023, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hatin-on-christmas-music/994897/59 "2023-12-21T18:14:20Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Is there a happy birthday Christmas song? Sorta… [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/fWQf6W0WKBY/hqdefault.jpg "A Christmas Rhyme | Aqua Teen Hunger | Adult Swim") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWQf6W0WKBY) ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2023, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hatin-on-christmas-music/994897/60 "2023-12-21T18:56:25Z")
I have done Carols for Cash (quartets of singers in faux Victorian costumes strolling up and down the mall for hours) far too many times because I needed the money. I hate all Christmas music, and will never take one of those gigs again. I also don’t do Santa Claus, despite being told on a daily basis that I look like him (long white hair, long white facial hair). I don’t even enjoy hearing a piece of music I like more than once a day - Christmas music is unavoidable! ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2023, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hatin-on-christmas-music/994897/61 "2023-12-21T19:13:24Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > My all-time favorite hate is “Happy X-mas (war is over)” Yeah, not a fan either. I like John on his own, to a certain extent. Luckily with online shopping I have not heard a single Christmas song … yet. ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2023, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hatin-on-christmas-music/994897/62 "2023-12-21T19:19:52Z")
Wow, thank you. That was horrendous. Like really bad. The level of terribly bad that I can appreciate how bad it is. This is something I will keep to give the link to children whose parents I dislike. It has everything wrong with it. It would be embarrassing in a Disney movie. On the other hand they got my youtube click. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hatin-on-christmas-music/994897.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hatin-on-christmas-music/994897.md?page=4)