What a wonderful Christmas!! It was the first one in a long time that I was truly able to enjoy. Though there was only a few days between the last final exam and Christmas, it was great to feel completely free to enjoy it, with nothing hanging over my head. Usually, even when I finish the semester I have a huge list of projects to accomplish over the break: gifts to sew, bathrooms to clean, stockings to knit. But this year, to celebrate the dawn of a new phase of my life that doesn't involve homework, I did not sew a single gift. I managed to NOT even finish knitting my husband's stocking which has been half done for two years now. He said it is our first Christmas tradition that he gets to have a plastic bag for a stocking.
Perhaps now I will toy with the idea of cleaning my very neglected house, or maybe I will wait till next week.
But that isn't what this blog post is about. This post is about Christmas songs that should die. Maybe I am a grinch, but as the Christmas season rounds the final bend I find that certain Christmas songs have not filled me with Christmas cheer but have instead burned a hole of hatred in my heart. Am I the only one who feels this way? I love Christmas Music, I really do. I own more Christmas albums than I can count. But there are certain songs that have joined the Christmas music archives that I wish I had the power to click a giant delete button, and a pop up window would say ----Do you really want to delete "Rockin Around the Christmas Tree" from THE great and all inclusive music library of all time?---- To which I would most happily click the ABSOLUTELY button. Now that would be a Christmas miracle.
So I am curious, do you have a Christmas song that you wish you would never have to hear again?? Is it a mild dislike or does it cause anguish in your soul when you hear it?
The Mp3 Experiment 21: Save The Date
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5 comments:
there are many, however, i try not to think about them, and have therefore blocked them from my memory. the death of the song should involve multiple stabbings with an ice pic.
I just think Christmas songs should be about................Christmas! So I would delete (from the Christmas repertoire, "I wish I had a river that I could skate away on." and My Favorite Things (from Sound of Music) and The Gift, which was a popular song but had nothing to do with Christmas except that it shares the word 'gift'.
For me it isn't always about the song, but a particular rendition of it. And most of the country songs fall into that category. Do that songs have to be so cheesy that I want to barf until my lungs collapse?
My complaint is more that there only seem to be 12 Christmas songs played on the radio. So what if there are a thousand different covers of those songs? I'm still tired of those songs. There are so many other Christmas or winter songs. Can't we please let them out to play?
One child learned to play one song on the piano and couldn't walk past the instrument without plunking it out. Even though she did it slow, or fast and sometimes high or low it still was TOO MUCH of that one song. Sadly it is We Wish You a Merry Christmas. And now that it is Jan. she still keeps playing it!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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