[ SECRET POST #3989 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3989 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I'll see your Frosty and raise you Do They Know It's Christmas?

[(Anonymous)]

oh! My absolute HATRED for this song is amazing! I understand it was supposed to raise money for charity or something but -

yes, you complete uncultured and uneducated cretin singing the song, of course they know its Christmas in Africa! They've even got things like the internet and color TV and buildings that are taller than a single story over there. There are, gasp, large groups of Christian Africans even! They've had this calendar thing figured out for centuries in fact. A large portion of them are fully aware its Christmas, you self-centric moron and your sobby song isn't going to make me donate 'only the price of a cup of coffee a day' to whatever charity full of fat white men is asking for it.

Sorry, each time I hear the song I add a little spoonful to the rage it induces. I'm also not fond of the song about the kid trying to buy shoes but at least I don't hear that as often so my dislike hasn't boiled over into hatred yet. I hate people/storytellers/singers that go for the blatant emotional manipulation to try to make their work popular.

[(Anonymous)]

OMG yes, The Christmas Shoes makes me die inside. That Patton Oswald sketch is the only good thing to come from that song.

[(Anonymous)]

Not saying I like the song, overly, but the song is definitely not implying the people of West Africa don't know it's Christmas because they're not technologically or socially advanced enough. The song is saying that Christmas is a time of safety and joy, but that there are people out there who aren't safe at all, and who may not be able to feel joy beneath all the hardship they're struggling with. "Do they know its Christmas?" is really just the singer saying, "Do they get to feel and have all the nice things we lucky ones get to feel and have at Christmas?"

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT- yeah, context is really important for that one. There was some shit going down in various African countries that year, hence the famine relief efforts and the Liveaid concert. Yeah, the song’s condescending, but more in the “let’s monolith a whole continent as one giant desert hellhole” sense than in actually thinking people literally didn’t know what day it was. And the people leading the relief effort were willing to ignore the ignorance for the $30 million they got out of it. The song is still an overwrought, melodramatic mess that uses the phrase “clanging chimes of doom” unironically, so they can stop playing it now.