Christmas Music Actually Kills My Holiday Spirit
I'm just not excited by the same 10 songs that seem to signal the start of the Christmas season, and even less so in July.
With the last holiday of the year just behind us, and everyone's focus shifting to making their New Years Eve playlists, I finally feel safe to confess my opinion that would have sparked outrage in the weeks prior; I could really do without Christmas music.
Don't get me wrong, I don't hate Christmas music or even have anything against it, it just doesn't do anything to put me in the spirit of the season. There are a few songs I like, I actually really love the effect it seems to have on the general population, and I enjoy the messages of non-secular songs that remind me of the significance of the holiday. I just don't particularly care for the fact that for nearly six weeks before Christmas Day same 20 songs are in constant rotation everywhere I go.
My co-worker began blasting “let is snow" and Mariah Carey's "All I want for Christmas is you" - which was fine because let's be honest, that song is a bop year round- back in mid-November, and bracing myself for the next month and a half of tunes intended to coerce children into behaving. I remember the excitement on her face as she plugged her phone into the aux cord and indirectly declared it Christmas before we'd even had Thanksgiving.
After about the third time we'd rotated through her holiday playlist she asked what my favorite song was and I apprehensively revealed that I didn't have one. The shock on her face was nothing I wasn't used to at this point and the teasing that ensued was familiar. I was fairly relieved that was all my confession amounted to rather than a demand for some deep explanation as to why and an effort to convert me with Ariana's take on Christmas classics.
As one of the few who doesn't love Christmas music, I'm relieved for all of the party songs that will replace them in celebration of the new year, and I wish everyone the best of luck with their resolutions.
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