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There is a war going on out there, and Christmas music is their form of retaliation, of torture.
It played for one month of the year. Have some spirit.
SIMPLY HAVIN' A WONDERFUL CHRISTMASTIME
There are many christmas songs that are perfectly OK to hate. Here is another:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgIwLeASnkw
Starts from November, so more than one month of the year. And it's the same stuff every single day. Red, green, white, and bland pop songs. Can you not see why that can be infuriating?
I raise you a ITS THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR!!!it's
SEEEEM-PLEE HAAAAVIN A WONDERFUL CHRISTMASTIME
But yes, for all his fine songcraft, Paul McCartney screwed the pooch on that one.
In general, it's the repetitiveness, the everywhereness, and the oldness that gets to me. Mariah Carey's song is almost a breath of fresh air, but I promise you people will be complaining about it being everywhere ten years from now if they aren't already. And I'm not a religious person, but it's the secular songs that tend to be the most annoying. Gimme "Silent Night" over "Baby It's Cold Outside", please.
I guess I can understand retail workers... but like... I just don't know about everyone else.
Hating Christmas music is like hating Christmas itself. And hating Christmas doesn't make sense to me either. I say that as an atheist by the way. I love the decorations, the atmosphere and spending time with my family. Christmas is my favorite holiday. The mythology and tradition of the holiday is a lot of fun
Have you ever worked in retail or a customer-facing job with muzak?
If not it makes sense why you don't dislike christmas music.
Which is why the Black Mirror Christmas special is bloody amazing. Sickeningly sweet satire.
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Not all Christmas music is pop. And where are you people going where you are barraged with it all the time? I only hear it when I actually play it at home.
Not all Christmas music is pop. And where are you people going where you are barraged with it all the time? I only hear it when I actually play it at home.
I guess I can understand retail workers..
Because its fucking boring, safe, and looped constantly until I want to kill myself.
What makes it all even worse is the holiday retail mindset. Managers, employees, customers, all on the shortest fuse possible, people screaming and shoving each other. Combine that with the sugar overdose of the background soundtrack and the end result is surreal.
Is that Jon Hamm?
I need to check this out. I'm guessing there's a series behind it I'd have to watch to make sense of it?