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Some say, in some walmarts and home depot, she roams the speakers year round.
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They do not, this song is more used to get employees to quit.
This and 20 versions of Last Christmas, which isn’t a fucking Christmas song it’s a goddamn breakup/cheater song.
Am I the only one who likes this song? I even love Last Christmas. I think it’s because I don’t go into brick and mortar stores often, so I can go a whole season and only hear it a few times. Somehow I hear Father Christmas and Christmas Wrapping way more often.
Retailers want to play Christmas music to encourage shopping, but only secular music to avoid causing offense. If you look at all the most popular Christmas songs and take out any that with religious lyrics (Silent Night, Joy to the World, Oh Come all ye Faithful, etc.) you’d be hard pressed to put together a playlist longer than an hour or two.
An employee working an eight hour shift will therefore hear the same song a minimum of four times. In my experience it’s closer to six, but we’ll be conservative here. That means Mariah Carey is telling you that you’re all she wants for Christmas at least twenty times a week. Most stores start up the Christmas music in early November, but we’re being charitable and saying the music will be playing from Thanksgiving through the week of Christmas.
The TL;DR is that your average full-time retail worker is going to hear the same few Christmas songs a bare minimum of 80-120 times during the busiest time of the year. That figure doubles in a worst case scenario where a one hour loop is played starting after Halloween. A ton of people have worked retail at some point on their lives so while you might not be the only one who likes this song you might have a hard time finding people who don’t have a knee-jerk resentment towards it.
You know why all Christmas music was written in the 50s or earlier? Cuz anything newer just feels like cash grabs and pandering.
Like so many things in life, Boomers are to blame.
pandering
I’m confused as to what else Christmas music could be.
She has defrosted last month here already in the Philippines
I envy all of you
Name something more Filipino than playing Mariah Carey Christmas songs in October
Lumpiang Shanghai
Fucking hell, is there no decency??
The real reason why we need to stop climate change.
Home Depot has had Christmas decorations out since early September. There’s a war, alright, and Christmas is the aggressor. Repetitive, banal music is just one of its weapons.
I don’t want a lot for Christmas. I just want this song to die.
Correction: He’s Thawing
Scarier than the Krampus
The Picard/Q duet version has saved the song for me: https://youtu.be/3KvWwJ6sh5s?si=YfbjaTox1K6UJsIw
Of course now I think the Carey version is just wrong. She doesn’t even try to quote Shakespeare.
I don’t want a lot for Christmas
Mariah Carey has made over $70 million from just this one song, averaging over $2 million per year since she wrote it in 1994
Also, She’s sold over 200 million albums and has had 19 #1 singles, second only to the Beatles.
IMO, Emotions from '91 is a damn good album, and her best
