Whamageddon (Last) Christmas

[MGibster]

I love George Michael. Just not this song. But I kinda hate conventional Christmas songs in general.

Did reindeer trample your heart or something?

 

[MoonSong]

Oh yeah, I forgot about this. Yeah, so far I've avoided it, but I do know it's one of my wife's favorites so it's probably not going to be a long Whamaggedon for me

I love the cover by Cascada.

 

[billd91]

I love George Michael. Just not this song. But I kinda hate conventional Christmas songs in general.

I don't think I would consider this a particularly conventional Christmas song - and that's in its favor. It's a fairly traditional pop love song with a Christmas theme as a wrapper.
I grew up the son of a church organist - and I DETEST most traditional Christmas music because of overexposure (and most of it is really stilted, mawkish, and terrible). But there are variations on Christmas themes I can enjoy - usually on the pop/rock side of things because they take a different approach from most traditional Christmas music and carols.
I don't much like "Last Christmas" because I'm not particularly a fan of Wham or even George Michael's body of work. But not because it's a Christmas themed song.

 

[billd91]

December 1st and my wife just Whamageddoned us.

 

[Clint_L]

Did reindeer trample your heart or something?

I just think they're mostly uninspired and uninteresting, if not downright annoying. "Jolly" is not a very compelling emotion for a song, IMO, and the religious ones aren't really for me. Most are just not good songs, and get played because they're part of the whole X-mas marketing racket.

There are Christmas songs that I like, but they are mostly darker, like Holly Golightly's "Christmas Solo," and Tom Waits' "Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis."