Tuesday, December 05, 2006
More on avoiding Christmas [music]
Actually, I realize that I’m not avoiding Christmas, per se. What I’m avoiding is “holiday music”. It’s the endless repetition of songs I was never crazy about in the first place. It would be like loving classical music, and then being ambushed by disco music for two months of the year, or loving country music and having the radio suddenly burst into the same two dozen opera songs, repeatedly, two months of the year. I suppose that for those who have grown up with “holiday” music and have fond memories associated with it, there’s a certain reverie that comes with that time of year. But for me, it’s just an annoyance.
This morning, in a Nyquil-induced stupor, I wandered over to the sofa and turned on MuchMusic (a youth-targeted music station like MTV) just in time to see a commercial where a star topping an Xmas tree starts to sing a generic holiday song, wherein an ornament goes postal and demands that it stop. After a frantic sequence involving earmuffs and a chainsaw, bedlam ensues and the ad closes with a “holiday wrap” theme. So it seems that my sentiment is echoed quite widely.