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."

 

[Staffan]

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

It is only a Christmas song in the same way Die Hard is a Christmas movie: it takes place on/near Christmas, but it's not about Christmas.

 

[Meech17]

Did reindeer trample your heart or something?

For a long, long time I loathed Xmas music. Between having to do the frigid holiday parades in marching band, to all the food service/retail exposure to it, I couldn't stand it.

Part of my gripe is the fact that it feels like there's only 15 Christmas songs, and then just about a hundred covers of each of em. At Taco Bell I used to be able to tell the time based off of the music because it was so short of a loop.

I've been detached from that world long enough now that I can finally enjoy it again, though.

 

[Ulorian - Agent of Chaos]

For a long, long time I loathed Xmas music. Between having to do the frigid holiday parades in marching band, to all the food service/retail exposure to it, I couldn't stand it.

Part of my gripe is the fact that it feels like there's only 15 Christmas songs, and then just about a hundred covers of each of em. At Taco Bell I used to be able to tell the time based off of the music because it was so short of a loop.

I've been detached from that world long enough now that I can finally enjoy it again, though.

I've always been a fan of 'traditional' Christmas music. I share a Spotify account with one of my daughters. Her account is filled with Frosty, Rudolph, the Biebs, Mariah Carey, etc. Mine is loaded with offerings from the King's College choir, Westminster Abbey choir, the Mormon Tabernacle choir, etc.