CHRISTMAS MUSIC SUCKS!!!:
Save it until December.
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Annika Peterson | Opinion | December
‘Tis the season to be jolly, except I’m already sick of the holiday season. This year, music platforms like Spotify began pushing Christmas music in October. For those unaware, Christmas is in December. That’s almost three months of Christmas music before the actual holiday, and I think this is ridiculous.
Call me a Scrooge, but Christmas music is one of the least diverse genres of music, as far as the radio goes. For instance, after Halloween, tons of radio stations play Christmas music. This would be fine, if they weren’t playing the same ten songs, on repeat, all day, every day.
There are definitely plenty of Christmas songs out there; however, radio stations know what songs do well. Due to this, they only play the classic Christmas songs, the famous ones that everybody knows. The only “diversity” in Christmas songs are slightly worse covers of the originals.
Along with the music, Christmas merchandise also appears earlier every year. For instance, Hobby Lobby began setting out their Christmas displays as early as September, while Bath & Body Works was done with its fall selection before November. Everything, from businesses to radio stations, seem to be pushing the holiday season onto people sooner than they should be.
The repetitiveness of the Christmas song selection and the constant lengthening of the pre-Christmas season have made Christmas music grow old very quickly. Every year, from October to the end of December, Christmas music is playing. Put into perspective, people will spend one fourth of their life listening to Christmas music. Say the average person lives to be around ninety, that’s twenty-two years of the average person’s life listening to Christmas music. At this rate, it’s only natural for people to be bored of Christmas music.
Graph displaying the increase of listens to Christmas music each month.
Photo taken from Spotify Advertising.
During this three month span, the music is almost inescapable. If it’s not on radio stations, then it’s playing in a store somewhere, being promoted by Spotify ads, or being played by someone else who absolutely adores Christmas. Because of this, it is reasonable to be annoyed with the music by the time Christmas is actually around the corner.
At the end of the day, people are going to do whatever they want, and companies and radio stations are going to keep pumping out their Christmas selections. However, for the sake of everyone (mostly me), Christmas doesn’t need to come so early every year. Christmas displays don’t need to be set up in stores before November, and, most importantly, Christmas music doesn’t need to be played until December.
Annika Peterson, News Editor
Annika Peterson is the editor of the News section for The Courier. This is her second year of writing for The Courier, and her first year as an editor.
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