I heard today that Mariah Carey pockets $2.5Million+ dollars each year in royalties for All I want for Christmas!! Can't stand it at all - any other dislikes!!?
Blissfully I have only had to buy presents for two grandchildren (agreement among adult family plus friends for no presents ) so I don’t need to go round the shops hearing all those ghastly Xmas songs.
But apart from that I really only like proper carols, sung by proper choirs. I can’t bear ‘popular’ singers doing them with breathy or screechy voices, or trying to put ‘expression’ into them, or the arrangers buggering them about and putting twiddly bits in.
Rocking around the christmas tree is awful, only battered by the terrible video of Shaky in a christmas jumper, playing snowballs with lots of rosy cheeked children.
Slade sang So here it is, Merry Christmas It gets on my nerves more than any other Christmas song because it is played by every supermarket on repeat from November 1sr until Christmas Eve. It was Wizzard who sang I wish it could be Christmas every day. Still annoying but not as bad as the first one. I’m not keen on Mariah Carey’s offering but it is positively world class compared with Stop the Cavalry! As for Jingle Bells…. I love proper Christmas carols, though, and my piano and violin pupils start learning them in November in order to have a repertoire of them by Christmas.
I heard today that Mariah Carey pockets $2.5Million+ dollars each year in royalties for All I want for Christmas!! Can't stand it at all - any other dislikes!!?