Comments on: Holiday Music Which I Hate http://spoonfighter.com/archives/208 A funny, frequently updated blog from Denver, Colorado, about current events, politics, media, humor, ideas, entertainment and life. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:59:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 Comment on Holiday Music Which I Hate by: daveawayfromhome http://spoonfighter.com/archives/208#comment-32924 Wed, 19 Dec 2007 03:20:29 +0000 http://spoonfighter.com/archives/208#comment-32924 I hate the modern R&#38;B stuff, by Whitney Houston and Whitney-wannabes, where they butcher the songs in an attempt to show off they're vocal "chops". Hey! Newsflash! The song's not about <i>you</i>, toots! Just sing the damn thing. Another xmas thing I hate is small kids who know 3 or 4 lines of a song (at least one of them wrongly), then sing those lines over and over and over and over and over and over and over and... On the other hand, I can barely wait for Thanksgiving Day, so that I can bring out my copy of Vince Guaraldi's "Charlie Brown Christmas" album. It is simply sublime, and it goes back on the shelf on Dec 26th, not to be touched again for 11 months. I hate the modern R&B stuff, by Whitney Houston and Whitney-wannabes, where they butcher the songs in an attempt to show off they’re vocal “chops”. Hey! Newsflash! The song’s not about you, toots! Just sing the damn thing.

Another xmas thing I hate is small kids who know 3 or 4 lines of a song (at least one of them wrongly), then sing those lines over and over and over and over and over and over and over and…

On the other hand, I can barely wait for Thanksgiving Day, so that I can bring out my copy of Vince Guaraldi’s “Charlie Brown Christmas” album. It is simply sublime, and it goes back on the shelf on Dec 26th, not to be touched again for 11 months.

]]> Comment on Holiday Music Which I Hate by: danb http://spoonfighter.com/archives/208#comment-32856 Sat, 15 Dec 2007 04:17:43 +0000 http://spoonfighter.com/archives/208#comment-32856 So-called Christmas music takes on a different spin overseas. As with American pop culture in general, certain songs, films, tv shows, etc. inexplicably are huge hits while other seemingly better ones are completely unknown. Eg, everyone in Korea knows Friends (and watches it to improve their English) but only a small handful know of Seinfeld. So for Christmas music, a few songs are completely overdosed on, most noticeably the Wham/George Michael song that goes "Last Christmas, I gave you my heart But the very next day, You gave it away". You can go from the bus to the coffeeshop to the department store and hear it at each spot. If it weren't so nauseating, it would be amazing. So-called Christmas music takes on a different spin overseas. As with American pop culture in general, certain songs, films, tv shows, etc. inexplicably are huge hits while other seemingly better ones are completely unknown.

Eg, everyone in Korea knows Friends (and watches it to improve their English) but only a small handful know of Seinfeld.

So for Christmas music, a few songs are completely overdosed on, most noticeably the Wham/George Michael song that goes “Last Christmas, I gave you my heart But the very next day, You gave it away”. You can go from the bus to the coffeeshop to the department store and hear it at each spot. If it weren’t so nauseating, it would be amazing.

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