LOL, just read a list of “Worst Christmas” songs - four of the “winners” were:
1. All I Want for Christmas is YOU
2. Last Christmas
3. Christmas Shoes (I think that’s the title).
4. Do They Know it’s Christmas?
I’d never heard #3 but my son says it’s horrible and sappy.
If I hear “All I Want for Christmas is YOU” one more time I’m going to go postal..It is everywhere...
Listened to the classical Christmas music station yesterday and may switch to that.
I cannot stand any of those. At least the first one is upbeat, though annoying and way overplayed, the other three are dark and depressing.
The “Christmas Shoes” one is trying to be meaningful but is really downbeat. The singer is witnessing a poor kid who wants to buy his mother nice shoes on Christmas Eve before she dies of cancer. It is too heavy handed and manipulatively sentimental.
I don’t know why stores play these songs because they are a downer and not what puts me in a Christmas shopping mood. I just want to get out of the store to escape.
I would add Bruce Springsteen’s cringey “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” to that list. I go through great lengths every holiday season to avoid hearing it and having my ears bleed. So far so good this year.