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I don't know about that but it's REALLY overused in a lot of TV shows and movies.

What, you mean you don't celebrate Christmas by remembering when you boned someone so hard the Holy Dove also moved?

Three of those four Christmas songs were written by Jews. This person has to be trolling, right?

All of those Christmas songs are about the holiday in a way that Hallelujah emphatically is not. They were intentionally written that way, by writers who were specifically getting paid to write about a holiday they didn't celebrate, from the perspective of a narrator who did celebrate it. Hallelujah has Jewish spirituality intentionally woven through it in a way those songs don't. If you know the authors of those songs, you know all of this.

They're still Christmas songs

People don't listen to lyrics and give no fucks, I guess.

All they know is hallelujah, which they like to blissfully repeat during the holidays

I'd think the Republican (mis)use of songs like "Born in the USA" and "Little Pink Houses" would have made that clear a long time ago.

Related, why did the radio decide Favorite Things from The Sound of Music was a Christmas song? It bugs me just as much.

The references go gift-wrapped packages, I guess?

nayrt

And mentions of sleigh bells, snowflakes and winters probably.

But even with those, it's kind of a stretch.

There's quite a few songs that have become associated with Christmas but were previously something else. What we currently call the Carol of the Bells is based on pagan music from Eastern Europe. Greensleeves is one people kind of remember if they think about it - because the Christian lyrics haven't completely displaced the older song. Even Jingle Bells was about fall and sleigh racing in the 1800's, before the US went through a phase of "we need more Christmas music!" in the 1930's and 1940's.

Above is a DA, by the way.

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Honestly I just hate that song. And every time I hear it, I hate it a little bit more. So, so overrated and so, so overplayed.

I liked it when I first heard it years ago but then suddenly it was everywhere and enough already! I would be perfectly happy to never hear it again.

I think it's one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard, especially Leonard Cohen's original cut where the emotion shows through clear and gritty at the same time. That's not to say that it's been over-recorded and overplayed, particularly the Buckley version (that I just don't even care for) which would not have been popular had he not died when and how he did - there's a great song by the Indelicates called '...If Jeff Buckley Had Lived' about this concept.

As far as I'm concerned, they can put whatever they want in the radio line up. If it's December and the songs have fuck-all to do with Christmas, so much the better.

What I'd like is more places that don't force these songs on customers who need things that are not Christmas-related. Like groceries. And, as a bonus, aren't torturing their employees.

There's a bunch of people out there who probably only know the first lines 'Now I've heard there was a secret chord; That David played, and it pleased the Lord' and chorus of 'Hallelujah', so the song reads as religious to them and that's enough. There are a lot of people who think 'Lips of an Angel' is a perfectly good song to dance to at their weddings. And I'm convinced there are a lot of songs out there that get a lot of play that wouldn't get as much if people actually really listened to the lyrics.

"Hallelujah" istself is also sometimes played at weddings and it weirds me out...

the colonizing drive of christianity continues unabated /hj

rather have THAT than islam.

talk to colonialism, bb, it thinks the religious conservatives of any sort is better for it.

Add me to the list of people who can't stand this song in any context, at any time of year.

I also hate this song but I love Jeff Buckley and Grace is one of m favourite albums. At least I can skip the track or if I can't, it's early on in the album.

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