Whamageddon (Last) Christmas

[MoonSong]

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."

There's always Soldier's Side?

 

[pukunui]

Almost got hit! "Last Christmas" came on while I was waiting to see the physio, but it was Ariana Grande's cover, not the original. Whew!

 

[Piperken]

I am OK thus far, but two other immediate participants were eliminated on 1 Dec!

 

[Clint_L]

Christmas songs in context are fine: being sung by carolers, little kids at parties, or at church, for the religious ones. Wonderful, have fun. They're basically novelty songs.

"(Last) Christmas" is certainly a Christmas song not just in title and setting but also in motif (gift-giving). Its main problem is that it, like most Christmas songs, is just kinda lame - "Father Figure" it ain't. George Michael has so many great songs, but this one is second rate. Which is typical; generally speaking, artists don't waste their best material on Christmas songs.

All that said, I do rather adore and marvel at the way Christmas songs have become an annual derby of sorts in the UK. It's a fascinating cultural phenomenon, and though most of the songs are complete crap, sometimes by design, a few turn out to be gems, like "Father Christmas" by The Kinks.

 

[trappedslider]

Spotify got me due to having the band be in my liked music

Mixtape for Christmas by Hey Monday.

 

[Alby87]

I think if you've ever worked in an environment where Christmas music plays on loop for your entire shift, every shift, every week for well over a month, you're allowed to not like Christmas music anymore. Spoken from experience

No amount of customer service hell will ever take away my love of Carol of the Bells, though. Especially the rock cover.

That! There in Italy we have different "classic" Christmas song (but pop ones are getting on radio for the period). But Carol of the Bells. The first time I head that song was in Home Alone, I tought that it was made for the movie. Then I heard a remix on Jazz Jackrabbit PC Game, and it was more awesome. When finally had Internet, I searched why there was a remix of Home Alone in Jazz Jackrabbit, I discovered the story about the classic song.

Also, "Ye merry Gentleman", rock remix tend to make epic that too.

 

[The Soloist]

All that said, I do rather adore and marvel at the way Christmas songs have become an annual derby of sorts in the UK. It's a fascinating cultural phenomenon, and though most of the songs are complete crap, sometimes by design, a few turn out to be gems, like "Father Christmas" by The Kinks.

Maybe, just maybe it's because of streaming. If you have no Christmas songs you are probably out of the "lists" for about a month. That hurts the artist's budget.

 

[The Soloist]

Has anyone created an AI Christmas version of Kung Fu Fighting yet?
Oh. Oh. Oh. Ohhhhhh!