Christmas Songs

[poliphilo]

Ugh- Christmas music!

I'm not talking about carols or even Christmas hymns- I like a lot of those. I'm talking about Christmas pop songs. Aren't they horrible?

And inescapable at this time of year: Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, Slade, Wizard, Cliff Richard.

The chingly sleigh bells, the fake bonhomie. Like being backed into a corner by a sentimental drunk with mincepie breath.

There are only two Christmas songs I can stand. The first is White Christmas. Well,  it's Irving Berlin and Irving Berlin was a mensch. And the second is the Pogues' Fairytale of New York.

"You scumbag, you maggot, you cheap, lousy faggot"- ah now, there's the true spirit of Christmas!  

Comments

[mamarose.livejournal.com]

Around here, most of the radio stations have gone to all christmas music all of the time, until the end of December. Even if I were a Christian, I don't think I would want six weeks of non-stop christmas music, EVERYWHERE!

You can't escape it by putting on the television, either. All of those advertising jingles! How can something be sacred when it is so commercialized? I am not opposed to christmas music, I find some if it rather nice, actually. But gimme a break!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It's the relentlessly upbeat jollity of it all that gets me!