Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>There are no words for how much I hate her singing style.<< It's an odd combination of breathless + shrieking.
Originally Posted By melekalikimaka So, in reading lots of comments on Jezebel.com*, a lot of people seem to get rapey vibes from 'Baby, It's Cold Outside'. I can see their point (sorta) although I do not agree. *Jezebel readers (Jezzies) are a special breed
Originally Posted By Lisann22 It's a toss up between Mathia's "Most Wonderful Time of the Year" with the infamous weehoo or yeehaw thingie he does in there. The cheesy McCarthy Wonderful Christmas and the dreaded Christmas Shoes.
Originally Posted By tashajilek I posted somehwere else that i hate the "Santa baby" song. Its weird that the chick singing seems all hot and bothered thinking about Santa. Santa is not sexy!
Originally Posted By u k fan <<<(Which is why I hate those damn Sarah McLachlan animal abuse advertisments.) >>> I can't believe Sarah McLachlan abuses animals! She always seemed so nice!!!
Originally Posted By DyGDisney Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas is the most depressing Christmas song, ever! It doesn't help that Judy Garland is crying while singing it in "Meet Me in St. Louis."
Originally Posted By melekalikimaka Haha, u k fan! DyG, it is a somber song. I never really realized it until I heard it a few weeks after 9/11. It is one of my favorite songs, however, but I lean towards glum most of the time.
Originally Posted By melekalikimaka Ugh...Santa Baby. I don't really like it, either. The listing of all of the things "she" wants bugs me. I recently bought Michael Buble's Xmas cd. Men, especially heterosexual men, SHOULD NOT sing this song. He even changed the lyrics to "Santa Buddy". It's creepy. I gave the cd to my mom.
Originally Posted By u k fan I don't think it's depressing as such, but I see what you mean. I actually think it's quite hopeful in spirit. It's one of my favorite Christmas songs and I sing it with my acapella group at this time of year. Have you heard the John Denver and Rowlf the Dog version? It's my favorite version ever!!!
Originally Posted By u k fan <<<I recently bought Michael Buble's Xmas cd. Men, especially heterosexual men, SHOULD NOT sing this song. He even changed the lyrics to "Santa Buddy". It's creepy.>>> That sounds like a whole world of no!!!
Originally Posted By Autopia Deb The advantage of never actively seeking out Christmas music is I have never heard "Christmas Shoes. The song that bugs me the most is "Blue Christmas" the Elvis version. I don't mind the song itself or Elvis, but the doo wop girls in the background screeching " Ooh ooh, ooh ooh ooh" gets on my very last nerve and has since I was a kid.
Originally Posted By amazedncal2 I recently heard "Christmas Shoes" all the way through for the first time on the insistence of my new SIL. He said you have to hear the whole thing to really appreciate how horrible it is. The ending is so manipulatingly horrible that I may never feel the same about little kids. J/K but seriously gagging. For your amusement a repeat of last years giggle: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Christmas-Heart-Bob-Dylan/dp/B002MW50KO" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/Christma...02MW50KO</a> "I Want a Hippotamus for Christmas" gets on my nerves because it is mostly sung by screechy voiced kids. "Santa Baby" is overplayed. EVERYONE and their grandmother has recorded it and I'm sick of it.
Originally Posted By MissCandice I really don't care for Christmas music that much so I am sure I would not care for the stuff that's been written about already. Although I am tempted to hear just how bad Demi Lovato sings Wonderful Christmastime, but I am afraid.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros A few years ago, I bought the DVD of the Christmas Shoes feature-length movie starring Rob Low for my (now) SIL (brother's girlfriend at the time). Quite possibly the best $5 I ever spent on a movie, just to see her reaction, trying to pretend like she was excited to watch it later. It still hasn't been opened. : ) As already mentioned in this thread, I really dislike "Baby it's Cold Outside" just because it's so creepy. There's nothing Christmas-ey about a girl asking what's in her drink, and a guy telling her that, no, she really should stay here a little longer. And another song that isn't a Christmas song that gets played a lot this time of year: "Linus and Lucy". It's a great piece for piano, but it's hardly a Christmas song. Sure, it was originally in the Charlie Brown Christmas special, but it was also used throughout their other holiday specials, the animated series, and countless advertisements. I haven't really listened this year (since they have a very small playlist, and most of it is dreadful), but I heard it on KOST a bunch last year. I just don't get it. And while I agree that most of the songs in the bracket are pretty bad, I actually like some of them a lot. Turns out, it's mostly the traditional/religious ones on the list (Carol of Bells, Silent Night, O Holy Night, Hark! The Herald Angels Sing) that tend to get overplayed, but they are still really great songs. But I guess that everybody will have different opinions about what should be on the list.
Originally Posted By melekalikimaka <<Quite possibly the best $5 I ever spent on a movie, just to see her reaction, trying to pretend like she was excited to watch it later. It still hasn't been opened. : )>> Haha! So cruel! There's tons of analysis of 'Baby It's Cold Outside'. If you look at it in the context of when it was written...it's really about a woman who WANTS to stay but is worried about how her family and society will judge her for it, thus, she is really just looking for excuses for why she HAD to stay (the weather, he gave me a strong drink-not drugs, etc). She even says that she's going to lie by saying that "at least I'm going to say that I tried" to leave. Also, the song was written by a man for him and his wife. They used to sing it at parties, etc. He then allowed it to be used in a movie where it has two different parts where the woman tries to get the man to stay plus the part that we've all heard. It's really about a woman doing a dance that she thinks she needs to do in order to not be thought of as a bad girl. Women don't do this as much now as they did back then but most of us still do it. Context is EVERYTHING in this song.
Originally Posted By DlandDug >>Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas is the most depressing Christmas song, ever!<< Somber, yes. Melancholy, definitely. But not depressing! This is my absolutely favorite secular Christmas song. It's another one that needs some context, but can stand on its own. It actually started out with a different lyric for the film, which producer Arthur Freed did find too depressing: "Have yourself a merry little Christmas, It may be your last. Next year we will all be living in the past..." Lyricist Ralph Blane was persuaded to change it to something less negative, but still rueful. WIthin the context of Meet Me in St. Louis, it expresses a very low moment (emotionally), played against the traditionally highest emotional point of the year, Christmas. For many people, the holidays are, frankly, depressing. There's no way the expectations of the season can ever be met. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, for me, is a good outlet to express this. And it's a really well written song, as well.
Originally Posted By DyGDisney >>>For many people, the holidays are, frankly, depressing. There's no way the expectations of the season can ever be met. <<< True, but maybe that's why I find it so depressing, at least the version in the movie. I know some modern day singers have changed the lyrics to make it more upbeat.
