Do you really like the song?

Herd mentality indeed!
How rude.

Baggs

Ah. That one. I have heard that one quite often. At least it sounds jolly 🤪

In the care home I work in the residents asked for the Christmas music not to be played until just before Christmas and not to include the Nodder Holder or any other modern song.Hardly modern as 1970’s😆 They were all asked what they liked and the answer was Carols, so that’s what is now put on for them, and fairly quietly too.Most of them are also taken to local churches if fit enough to go, to listen to carol services.
I completely get it, as when shopping and any raucous Christmas song is played I walk out.

Just because some of us like this song, that doesn't mean we don't like more contemporary music as well.

polomint
I can't abide the song " fairytale of New York". I know its very popular but I just don't like it. In fact I will leave a shop if it is being played ! Do you really like it or just ordered to like it?
What a weird thing to say, polomint. Do you only like songs you have been ordered to like? I like or dislike songs without help.

Oreo
*I dislike it too, always have.In fact just said it on the RIP thread about Pogues frontman.
Am surprised to see many older women liking punk rock ( or claiming to)😄*
Even putting a grin after your post doesn’t stop it being rude, as is IMO adding your dislike of a song to an RIP thread.
I don’t know if I like punk rock, but I like FTONY.
Do you like or dislike a song because you like or dislike it, or dismiss it because of its genre?

Mollygo if I don’t like a song I don’t like it, it’s as simple as that.Raucous voices are something I avoid if possible of any genre. No rudeness intended, I just thought it strange is all.

Sometimes a song just touches a thread or note in one's mind. I cannot fathom out why I like ^Fairytale of New York so much, not my genre or style ofmusic at all.

However just because you do not like a song is not a reason for dissing other people who do or casting aspersions on the singer where they clearly are talented, but not in style of music you like.

Oreo

Well, we’re all different hey? I have grown out of music I liked as a teenager and moved onto other things.

Which is all fine. What is not fine (and I may be conflating the two threads here) is saying that those who do like it are suffering from 'herd mentality', and should have 'grown out of it', not to mention the suggestion that it is somehow inappropriate for 'older women' to like a particular genre of music. And it's not really on to make comments about a singer just days after his death. SM wasn't a controversial figure, and he brought pleasure and entertainment to many people. Let him rest in peace/

Oh dear. I've just read my original post asking if you liked the song. There's no way I typed " ordered" it must have been predictive text ! What I did nean to say is " pretend" to like eg just agreeing with people who say they do as it doesn't matter one way or the other. If you disagree with people in your group it could sometimes lead to others trying to change your opinion of why you don't like the song. I only posted as I was curious to how popular " fairytale" is among gransnetters

Doodledog

I haven’t grown out of music either. I just add to what I like as I get older.

Same here. I haven't grown out of Pink Floyd, The Police, The Kinks, George Harrison, Eva Cassidy, Annie Lennox ... the list goes on.

Like you, I just add songs to my playlist if I hear something I really like. My Zumba/dance teacher loves to play Miley Cyrus, so I've downloaded some of her songs and jump around to those at home.

Maybe I'll start a thread about how much I hate Gilbert and Sullivan, Tom Jones and Cliff Richard - not to offend or wind anybody up, but just so you all know.

Me too growstuff I agree!

I could join that thread growstuff, except I don't know what I don’t like until I’ve listened to it and then I don’t listen to stuff I don’t like. I’ll start with Handel’s Messiah. After singing it so many times, I don’t like it.

I dont like Kate Bush, The Smiths and Blur.

I do like The Smiths and Morrissey.
Also like Take That and all boy bands.
But I also like Gilbert and Sullivan, plus Andrea Bocelli. Etc. Etc.
Last week I went to a performance of Handel's Messiah and loved it except it was too long and my posterior protested.
My current favourite is James Blunt. Wonderful song writer, love his lyrics in particular.
Just making the point that we oldies can like many sorts of music.

kittylester

It strikes me as quite narrow minded to discount music because of it's vintage and /or genre.

The most important part of any song, for me, is the lyrics. My husband rarely let's lyrics trouble him and his favourite type of music is jazz fusion.

I love 'the song', I haven't been brainwashed. Nor do I only listen to music from my youth. One of my current favourites is James May.

Me too, which is one of the reasons my favourite 'genre' is folk music. Luckygirl's family are part of the wonderful Folk by the Oak team (look them up) who I admire a great deal.

Just for the record, I haven’t ‘cast aspersions on the singer’ I haven’t even heard of him much less dislike him. I simply have never liked the song, as am sure many others don’t either.
There is such a thing as herd mentality btw and is well known on internet forums, when posters don’t like to go against the flow with the overall feel of a thread and are embarrassed to disagree. If this isn’t you, then fine.This isn’t the RIP thread, this is about the song.

growstuff

Maybe I'll start a thread about how much I hate Gilbert and Sullivan, Tom Jones and Cliff Richard - not to offend or wind anybody up, but just so you all know.

That would be fine, we can all come onto your thread and say we either liked them or didn’t.

Even on that thread I would be a centrist. I like Tom Jones and loathe Cliff Richard.

Always been my favorite Christmas song, why would someone pretend to like it?

To be ‘one of the crowd’ I guess Theexwife. I’m with Oreo, I have already said I don’t care for it. I can do without depressing tales of drink and drugs any time of the year, but particularly at Christmas. Each to their own!

What could be more patronising than suggesting anyone who disagrees with you is 'possibly responding to a 'herd mentality'.

Herd mentailty in Christmas songs? Give us a break. The person suggesting this is just as likely to be making the suggestion because everybody whose approval they seek doesn't like it and is doing exactly the same thing.

Also looking at the names posting on this thread, they are the names of people who nearly all have track records of never being afraid to put their heads above the parapet and disagree with any one and everybody where there are disagreements, so to suggest that they might succumb to the herd mentality over a Christmas song, of all trivialities is really the sign of someone on their back foot and flailing out wildly.

This is getting ‘goady’ now.
Let’s all play nice. 😊

I don’t seek anyone on here’s approval Monica and I think you protest too much tbh.
The only person flailing out wildly is yourself, honestly what a storm in a teacup.

Why would anyone over teenage want to be 'one of the crowd', by liking a song/ What a strange idea.

Like it, don't like it, it doesn't matter, but let people have their own views please.

People have had their views, and so have I. That’s what forum discussions are for and would be a funny old world if we all agreed.