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There is a war going on out there, and Christmas music is their form of retaliation, of torture.
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How can anyone hate Christmas music?
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Nemesis121
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They play the same shit over and over...
Nintendoga
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November, December, and First half of Janurary are the only times that's okay to listen to Christmas Music. Anything out of this timeframe is unacceptable.
SatelliteOfLove
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Now see, here's the problem: if it was December only, or at least post-Thanksgiving...but it's not for some people and companies.
Now, when malls wanna put on some mufuggin' SLADE Christmas joy, that's different.
Astral/H3X
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I fucking hate Christmas music.
Mrs. Manky
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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.
Risible
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I love the shit out of Christmas music, but I can understand how someone might dislike or even hate it. Especially if you're not of a faith that observes Christmas.
Not the best Christmas song, but one I love below. I was about 19 years old which means this was around 1984 or so, was driving in NYC very late at night, no one on the streets for the most part. It was a few days away from Christmas and a very light snow started falling and this song came on the radio and it was all just magical. The empty streets, the soft snow falling, I was young and cruising, the music, all came together for a moment I've never forgotten.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76WFkKp8Tjs
Not the best Christmas song, but one I love below. I was about 19 years old which means this was around 1984 or so, was driving in NYC very late at night, no one on the streets for the most part. It was a few days away from Christmas and a very light snow started falling and this song came on the radio and it was all just magical. The empty streets, the soft snow falling, I was young and cruising, the music, all came together for a moment I've never forgotten.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76WFkKp8Tjs
Risible
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I love most Christmas music. Hell, I even like Dominic the Christmas Donkey which is pretty much hated by anyone outside of NY or NJ.
I will agree, however, that Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer is awful. It's just so mean-spirited.
JumpJeff84
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I don't like Christmas, and I don't like Christmas music.
Doesn't make me a psycho or anything
Doesn't make me a psycho or anything
Clockwork5
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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.
It's constant, it's everywhere, it's the same 10 songs over and over again, and it gets stuck in your head even when it isn't this time of year.
On top of that you got people who want to start listening to it in August because "it's that time of year!" (I'm not even kidding, I KNOW people who want to celebrate Xmas as early as August...)
On top of that you got people who want to start listening to it in August because "it's that time of year!" (I'm not even kidding, I KNOW people who want to celebrate Xmas as early as August...)
MomoPufflet
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It's the one kind of music I can hear 10 million times and still like it. Even having worked retail with a finite number of songs on loop. Even shit bands doing Christmas music I rarely mind.
The only Christmas song I can't stand is that McCartney one Wonderful Christmas Time with that shitty synth. Fuck that song!
The only Christmas song I can't stand is that McCartney one Wonderful Christmas Time with that shitty synth. Fuck that song!
I raise you a ITS THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR!!!
ThatGayWolf
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A big meh for the most part.
Christmas music wouldn't be so bad if it didn't start on fucking november first and continue until january first. It's inescapable and when I've heard the same song 200 fucking times before I even go to see my family, I don't ever want to hear it again.
So help me god if you play a christmas song before halloween I'll throw your soundsystem into the street.
Dude, the very first sentence in the OP addresses this!
Now I'm not big on "I like this/how can anyone not like this?" stuff. There are lots of reasons people might not like a thing. It's life. That said, I do like some christmas music. Like this:
https://youtu.be/OATi34PKNPw
Has it all. People blowing into horns and shit, George Will clapping that wooden thing. Why is he there? Weird, but I like this song. And that one where Christina Aguilera is YELLING about christmas, that's good too.
Prototype Viktor
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Easily, most of it has nonsense lyrics and slow for slow sake
blast processed
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I don't mind some, actually, I enjoy a good bit, but what pisses me off is when I hear the same songs sung but multiple artist throughout the day. For example that Christmas rape song, baby it's cold outside, or whatever the name is.
Wyndstryker
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I don't mind christmas music for the first few days.
After that I hate it because you end up hearing the same songs for the next month.
After that I hate it because you end up hearing the same songs for the next month.
I can see how people can hate it since it's the same batch of songs, but when you only hear it for about a month in the year the novelty is still pretty special. Also, some of the great singers like Sinatra and those guys get plays on the radio on some popular stations, unlike the rest of the year
For me, nothing will ever match the atmosphere of Christmas time. The world kind of changes for a month, in my eyes. Everything seems a bit more magical and fun than it should. I don't even know why, it's probably something to do with how Christmas was treated by my parents growing up.
For me, nothing will ever match the atmosphere of Christmas time. The world kind of changes for a month, in my eyes. Everything seems a bit more magical and fun than it should. I don't even know why, it's probably something to do with how Christmas was treated by my parents growing up.
Paracelsus
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I hate people born with the silver spoon in their mouth who go "here comes the worst time of the year ewww X(".
Wowfunhappy
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I like Christmas music as long as it's being played at CHRISTMAS TIME. Like, don't start playing Christmas songs at the beginning of freaking November. Black Friday should be the absolute earliest that Christmas music is being played.
Ultimadrago
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Which is why the Black Mirror Christmas special is bloody amazing. Sickeningly sweet satire.
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?
richardhawk
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Fuck holiday music.
I think the biggest issue is as society has changed what is acceptable to play has changed so in reality mostly what you will hear is the same small selection of pop Christmas music which ends up generally being a love song spiffed up to be Christmas like rather than an actual Christmas song.
Its all about the "Safe" songs to not offend anyone.
teruterubozu
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Seriously? You don't hear it on TV, on the car radio, in stores, restaurants, etc.? You must be a hermit or something.
I like Christmas Pop songs like the Waitresses. But not like Do they KNow its Christmas.
I'm trying to find a very specific version of the song "This Christmas," but I ain't having luck. I enjoy the original version but the version I'm thinking of is newer. It ain't the Chris Brown version.
Hmm...
EDIT: BTW, the fucking (screenshot) music video I just posted is crazy, so many classic Christmas images. Like Harry Potter and Pokemon :/
Hmm...
EDIT: BTW, the fucking (screenshot) music video I just posted is crazy, so many classic Christmas images. Like Harry Potter and Pokemon :/
You guess? Buddy, I have to listen to this shit for 40-60 hours a week, from early October to January 1st. There is no need to guess.
Even beyond that though, the worst part of (most) Christmas music is the teeth-gritting candy-coated eternal happiness of it all. It's the musical form of ice cream sundaes for three meals a day. Wonderful Christmastime has already been brought up, but it is the perfect example for this. (And yes, there's Christmas music that doesn't fit this stereotype, but they don't play it in retail.)
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.
davepoobond
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They're not musically pleasing
They're all super into selling you the commerciality of the holiday
New music is nowhere to be found
It's the same music from the fixking 1950s that keeps getting played
They're all super into selling you the commerciality of the holiday
New music is nowhere to be found
It's the same music from the fixking 1950s that keeps getting played
iceblade997
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It's the same songs, played over and over, and it is as though people forget there are other songs out there. They're fine for a few times, or on occasion, but they get played to the point where it's tiresome to hear them pretty much on a loop after almost a month of non-stop play.
KiwiLannister
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It's not the concept of Christmas music on its own, it's just that it's the same few songs and it's so creatively bankrupt that it's ridiculous.
If there was a new lot of Christmas songs each year like there is for every other genre of music, and if those songs are what got airplay, I imagine nobody would have a problem with it.
If there was a new lot of Christmas songs each year like there is for every other genre of music, and if those songs are what got airplay, I imagine nobody would have a problem with it.
Just the thought of a big Christmas Best Buy riot underscored to "The Most Wonderful Time of the Year" makes me giggle. Surreal as hell.
Happy Takei Christmas
If it's not some goofy parody song, then I don't want to hear it. Christmas music is terrible for the most part.
If it's not some goofy parody song, then I don't want to hear it. Christmas music is terrible for the most part.
sir_kevith
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Worked at sears from age 16-21. Now im 32 and a long way from ever going back to retail and yet xmas music still triggers some kind of ptsd. I doubt ill ever enjoy it. A lady in my office plays it out loud in her cubicle to everyone else's enjoyment and i just put my headphones on.
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