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Wow! Those two post sold me on some serious hatin’
I concur. The worst drivel.
second worst drivel.
Funny once joke… and that was in 1979. Not funny twice a hour.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The likely reason for that is it’s really a game which got set to music at some point.
OMG! I just said this yesterday. The last four times I started my car, this was playing on the radio. Hate it!
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.
“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.”
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.
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.
I find Death Cab For Cutie’s version to be pretty solid.
Is there a happy birthday Christmas song?
Happy day, @Smapti !!
Sorta…
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!
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.
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.