Your Most Hated Christmas Song, 2020 Edition

[SunflowerP]

It's time for that old Cauldron tradition of having a thread for griping about those cheesy, insipid, overplayed Christmas songs that make us want to get a copy on vinyl or CD for the sheer satisfaction of smashing it to bits. This is that thread!

I had groceries and other necessities to buy today, and was sure that in the process I'd be sufficiently irked by something that it'd give me a starter for this thread - but no one was playing Christmas music, as far as I could tell. Another weird COVID shortage?

So once again I'll cite LyricFox's pet hate, which was a significant factor in these threads becoming a tradition on TC: Little Drummer Boy, as done by absolutely anyone.

What's yours?

[sevensons]

What's yours?

Last Christmas I dont like this song at all its a very tiring song.plus I hate songs witch are based on lises why cant people tell a good truthful song.

[Anon100]

It's time for that old Cauldron tradition of having a thread for griping about those cheesy, insipid, overplayed Christmas songs that make us want to get a copy on vinyl or CD for the sheer satisfaction of smashing it to bits. This is that thread!

It's not as overplayed as many ( though one year I seemed to switch on the radio every time it came on ) but may all time worst christmas song has to be - Blue Christmas

[Sophia C]

What's yours?

I might have said this in previous years, but Paul McCartney’s ‘Wonderful Christmas Time’ regularly makes ‘worst Christmas songs’ list and I agree. I’ve recently seen people praising his sense of irony and savvy, but this edgy opinion will not win me over. It came on the radio on 1st December and I had an extreme reaction. NO.

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[SirPalomides]

I might have said this in previous years, but Paul McCartney%u2019s Wonderful Christmas Time regularly makes worst Christmas songs lists and I agree. I%u2019ve recently seen people praising his sense of irony and savvy, but this edgy opinion will not win me over. It came on the radio on 1st December and I had an extreme reaction. NO.

+1 absolutely horrid song. Horrible synths, horrible choir, horrible everything. When someone has to defend a song by saying, "Oh but he's being ironic", that's pretty weak stuff. Also unbearable are "the Christmas Shoes" and Gloria Estefan's "Christmas Through Your Eyes". I also strongly dislike classics being mangled by histrionic divas like Christina Aguilera or autotuned hacks like Michael Buble (I call him "auto-croon").

[Anon100]

I might have said this in previous years, but Paul McCartney%u2019s Wonderful Christmas Time regularly makes worst Christmas songs lists and I agree. I%u2019ve recently seen people praising his sense of irony and savvy, but this edgy opinion will not win me over. It came on the radio on 1st December and I had an extreme reaction. NO.

Am I the only one who grew up thinking he sang about Zippy having a wonderful Christmas time?
I swear I expected the music video to feature a character from Rainbow

[Sefiru]

I had groceries and other necessities to buy today, and was sure that in the process I'd be sufficiently irked by something that it'd give me a starter for this thread - but no one was playing Christmas music, as far as I could tell. Another weird COVID shortage?

No such luck here

At the moment, what irks me is not so much a specific song as the insipid muzak covers that I hear being played. Can we have some real choirs and pipe organs please? (Despite not being Christian, I much prefer carols to poop holiday music.)

[MadZealot]

So once again I'll cite LyricFox's pet hate, which was a significant factor in these threads becoming a tradition on TC: Little Drummer Boy, as done by absolutely anyone.

That song has some really awesome verses,
but it's marred by
That rumpumpum shit.
Rumpumpum shit.
Rumpumpum shit.




I regret nothing.

[PerditaPickle]

Last Christmas

This is the one which immediately pops into my mind, though I'd struggle to put my finger on precisely why.

[MadZealot]

This is the one which immediately pops into my mind, though I'd struggle to put my finger on precisely why.

Because it totally sucks reindeer ass?

[SunflowerP]

(Despite not being Christian, I much prefer carols to poop holiday music.)

ROFLMAOPMP&STC (or I would be scaring the cat if I had a cat)!!!

If that wasn't intentional (which I'm guessing it wasn't, since you aren't MadZ), it's a very seredipitous typo.

Sunflower

[Sefiru]

ROFLMAOPMP&STC (or I would be scaring the cat if I had a cat)!!!

If that wasn't intentional (which I'm guessing it wasn't, since you aren't MadZ), it's a very seredipitous typo.

Sunflower

I stand by all the misstatements I've made. 

[sevensons]

This is the one which immediately pops into my mind, though I'd struggle to put my finger on precisely why.

The entire song is fictitious baloney out of place in this day and age.

[PerditaPickle]

The entire song is fictitious baloney out of place in this day and age.

That's not my issue with it, but I'll have to mull it over a bit longer to try and articulate my particular problem/s with the song.

[Sefiru]

That's not my issue with it, but I'll have to mull it over a bit longer to try and articulate my particular problem/s with the song.

It's a whiney Nice Guy guilt trip, for one thing. "Sk8r boi" handled the same scenario much better.