Christmas is all about celebrating the birth of Jesus all those years ago right? Of course not.
Nowadays it's about trudging round the shops with festive musak infecting your ears irrespective of which shop you enter. I asked one assistant how they put up with the constant loop of Christmas music which they have to endure for hours on end and the answer was 'Pardon?' then he took out his ear plugs. I jest.
Have you ever listened to the lyrics to these Christmas choons?
'Oh I wish it could be Christmas every day'. Yeah right. Just think about that for a second. What a nightmare that would be. In fact what a brilliant horror film. 'Harry Potter and the perpetual Wizzard'.
How about 'Christmas comes this time each year'. So glad they told me that. Takes a good one to get past the Beach Boys, who of course also gave us 'little Saint Nick' for goodness sake.
There's sleaze. I am reliably informed that 'baby it's cold outside' is also known as the 'date-rape song'.
There's tragedy. 'Grandma got run over by a reindeer'.
But if you really want a festive song to get you into the right mood for Christmas look no further than John Denver's offering.
'Please Daddy, don't get drunk this Christmas I don't wanna see my Mamma cry.'
Thanks John, and a very merry Christmas to you too.
Nowadays it's about trudging round the shops with festive musak infecting your ears irrespective of which shop you enter. I asked one assistant how they put up with the constant loop of Christmas music which they have to endure for hours on end and the answer was 'Pardon?' then he took out his ear plugs. I jest.
Have you ever listened to the lyrics to these Christmas choons?
'Oh I wish it could be Christmas every day'. Yeah right. Just think about that for a second. What a nightmare that would be. In fact what a brilliant horror film. 'Harry Potter and the perpetual Wizzard'.
How about 'Christmas comes this time each year'. So glad they told me that. Takes a good one to get past the Beach Boys, who of course also gave us 'little Saint Nick' for goodness sake.
There's sleaze. I am reliably informed that 'baby it's cold outside' is also known as the 'date-rape song'.
There's tragedy. 'Grandma got run over by a reindeer'.
But if you really want a festive song to get you into the right mood for Christmas look no further than John Denver's offering.
'Please Daddy, don't get drunk this Christmas I don't wanna see my Mamma cry.'
Thanks John, and a very merry Christmas to you too.
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