Thanksgiving has come and gone, which means that homes and storefronts across the nation have switched out their turkeys and pilgrims for mistletoe and Christmas trees. By some unwritten law, it also means that everyone on Earth is allowed to play nothing but Christmas songs for the next 30 days.
Personally, we’re ready for some of these holiday music traditions to expire. For Music Monday, we wanted to offer an alternate soundtrack to the endless renditions of “Baby It’s Cold Outside” and “Jingle Bells” that will undoubtedly dominate the airwaves until the year’s end.
In formal protest to the nonstop airplay of Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You,” we put together a Spotify playlist of the songs we’d rather listen to.
…lol…as a professional musician – i am a pianist – i more or less dread christmas in the USA (it actually still has not been totally commercialized, monetized, sentimentalized and vulgarized into banality in the EU)…it is not even december yet and i have already played to christmas party gigs…christmas cheer for me is that blissful moment at midnight christmas mass when all the carols and jingles end and i can enjoy not another verse of ‘silent night’ but the silence of the night if i had a significant other in my life i would certainly filled your stocking with some cash….but alas, we are a lone wolfe these days….i hope the season doesn’t grinch you with too much hum-bug but something better than a bunch of red bull gives you angel wings to fly your way from black thursday too beyond the tiny bubble of an auld ange syne hang-over …^^~~~~~
I have to say that I love Christmas music and I’d be fine if everyone started playing it the day after Halloween! Ha!
Oh my goodness! Looking for a house that can accommodate the Christmas is an essential! i have to admit….I’m one of those.
I am soooo with you here.
We’re with you on the ‘not another Christmas song’!
At least in America you don’t have to listen to Wizzard’s ‘I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day’ which, believe me, is as horrific as Mariah Carey’s vulgar offering!
No more Mariah Carey! Please! Unless I’m on my 5th round and just ask me to move on!
Hear hear! I couldn’t agree more. Would you like to know how many different versions of Let it Snow a Macy’s worker is likely to hear during a seven hour work day? The answer is 7.