Most people who know me know that I love music and love to sing. You can find me listening to pretty much any genre of music and loving it. With that in mind, there is one style of music that really gets under my skin. Contrary to popular opinion, I hate Christmas music.
Do not get me wrong, I love Christmas and as I said I also love music. However, music about Christmas just makes me angry. There are about three songs about Halloween or Easter, maybe one about Thanksgiving, and holidays like Father’s Day or President’s Day are utterly music-less. So, why must every artist in existence make an album of the same 14 Christmas songs?
Aside from the special treatment it gives Christmas, the music is also played far too early and far too frequently. It is completely unnecessary for me to listen Christmas music 24 hours a day when it is over a month before Christmas day.
Each year it becomes more and more difficult to avoid hearing Christmas music in late November (or if you are like me, late December). Stores have begun playing it earlier, and radio stations are even worse. Some stations play all Christmas music all the time starting before Thanksgiving even occurs. This is a bigger insult on Thanksgiving than Black Friday starting Thursday afternoon.
I can sometimes handle the stations that choose to play a mixture of both regular music and Christmas music. I feel like at least they are trying to compromise. That being said, I am still that person who on Christmas Day will try to avoid listening to Christmas music as much as possible.
I think the worst part about Christmas music is that the most annoying songs are the ones played most often. Yes, it was funny the first time grandma got run over by a reindeer. Maybe even the second time. However, by the tenth time in a day it had lost its touch.
While I could continue ranting about the overplayed annoying songs about reindeer, sleigh bells, mistletoe and other iconic Christmas figures, I will say that there are some good Christmas songs out there.
Not surprisingly, most of my favorites are the ones rarely played. After careful consideration, I would say my top three Christmas songs are “Where are you Christmas,” “My Grown-Up Christmas List” and “Carol of the Bells.”
I think I mostly like “Where are you Christmas” and “My Grown-Up Christmas List” because they remind me of regular songs, just with a Christmas theme. “Carol of the Bells” just gets me hype; I have no other reasoning for it.
