Love it!
The “traditional” Christmas station I’ve listened to for years has replaced a lot of the “traditional” singers and songs (from the 40s, 50s, 60s, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Perry Como, etc.) with black artists. I don’t mind listening to them - but they should have been added on the rotation instead of lessening or even eliminating white artists and groups.
What I’ve noticed is many artists in county, pop and others like you said want to put their “sound” in it.
Honestly I like very few of the new ones.
BTW
2 republican POTUS that year. 50 years ago almost, which I knew then what I know now….
The so-called Christmas stations are unlistenable. Too much pop crap that gets classified as “Christmas music” because the word Christmas is mentioned somewhere in the song. So much of is not cheery and downright depressing. Given they play the same garbage in the stores, I am miserable trying to do Christmas shopping.
And just how many versions of “Last Christmas” do we need? George Michael’s version sucked and no one has improved on it.