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Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Opinion / Mike McCray / News Step away from the Bing Crosby!
Posted By Mike McCray on Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 6:26 PM
Now that Christmas is over and the only holiday still going on was created in the 1960's (sorry Kwanzaa), I'm going to need the world to act like it's not Christmas day anymore.
Turning on the radio after a shitty Christmas Day only to hear more songs about Santa's fat ass jetsetting the world only adds insult to injury when you know he doesn't exist or imagine hearing Donny Hathaway's "This Christmas" after celebrating another "big day" alone, nothing "special" about that.
Think about the kids. If you keep telling them that Santa Claus is coming to town after Christmas day and they're going to expect him to drop by three or four days in a row. That's not fair.
I kind of understand the logic of stores playing holiday music while you take back all those unwanted gifts you got but in that case, why are the Christians the only ones to get in the on the act? I mean, they're my people but I've never heard a Hanukkah or Kwanzza carol, especially in the mall.
Then you have you're perfectly PC holiday season anthems. "White Christmas?" Are you serious? We live in the South (and I'm going to ignore the racial undertones on that song)
My point? They start sooner and sooner with this stuff every year, I was hearing "Jingle Bell Rock" the day after Halloween. Let's just pack up the holiday albums for the year and bring them out on Black Friday 2010.
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