Have you noticed - have you really noticed - that's there a lot of Christmas music out there? It's ironic that some people think there's a war on this particular holiday, because I believe there's more Christmas music out there than there's porn.
& like porn, most Christmas music is awful. I mean, most if not all porn is just terrible. Most - but not all - Christmas music is the very definition of intolerable. Almost always designed to make a buck. By hacky musicians or musicians who are struggling for relevance. Who buys Christmas music? Or should I ask, who doesn't buy Christmas music?
For me, the challenge is to find songs that aren't tedious copies of the originals, or originals that have some personality, or - this is an epiphany I had last night - music that's disrespectful.
Because I do love Christmas music, despite the fact that I don't celebrate the holiday at all. The wife & I don't exchange gifts, we don't immerse ourselves in the mythology, heck, I don't even want to be around my family this time of year. (The wife's family went on a trip, or she'd have flown back home to be with them.) So I won't be offended if someone is utterly & completely disrespectful of some great Christmas song.
There will be, I confess, a couple of disrespectful Christmas songs on my show tomorrow. I have found some real goodies. Some real square tunes too. But - I can't stress this enough - not any that are as awful as the pornography-level Christmas tunes you'll hear in any store now until the end of the year. Guaranteed!
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