{"id":2122165,"date":"2023-12-11T18:34:01","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T23:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/5-terrible-christmas-songs-the-radio-wont-stop-playing\/"},"modified":"2023-12-11T18:40:45","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T23:40:45","slug":"5-terrible-christmas-songs-the-radio-wont-stop-playing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/5-terrible-christmas-songs-the-radio-wont-stop-playing\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Awful Christmas Songs That Won&#8217;t Quit on the Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F5-terrible-christmas-songs-the-radio-wont-stop-playing%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2122165&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Five of the\u2063 Worst Popular \u2063Christmas Songs That Radio Stations Won&#8217;t Stop Playing<\/h2>\n<h3><b>\u201cThe Christmas Shoes,\u201d by NewSong<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Holiday-themed jingles are meant to evoke emotions and\u2062 make you feel a certain way, but \u2063the problem with the melodramatic narrative found in \u201cThe \u200dChristmas \u200bShoes\u201d is the \u200csame one present in so many explicitly Christian entertainment efforts \u2013 it\u2019s trying too hard.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The song was written by\u2063 Christian vocal\u200d group NewSong members Eddie Carswell and Leonard Ahlstrom and was released in 2000. It became \u2063massively popular shortly after, reaching number 31 on the \u2063Billboard Hot Country Songs chart spending one week on the top spot of the Adult Contemporary chart.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/demi-lovato-happens-against-gender-reveal-celebrations-there-are-males-with-vaginas-and-women-with-penises-2\/\" title=\"Demi Lovato HAPPENS Against Gender Reveal Celebrations: \u2018There Are Males With Vaginas And Women With Penises\u2019\">song features<\/a> the narrator shopping on Christmas Eve when he encounters a young boy who wants to\u2063 buy a pair of shoes for \u2064his terminally-ill mother but doesn\u2019t have enough money. The poor little boy explains how he\u2063 \u201cwant[s] her \u2063to look\u2062 beautiful if \u2064mama meets Jesus tonight.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The intent of the song is clear. Christmas\u200d shouldn\u2019t be about materialism, but rather should focus on love, faith, and family. And while this song is despised\u2063 by Leftists for being so-called \u201cpoverty\u2063 porn\u201d and presenting the wealthy narrator as being too \u200bself-congratulatory after giving \u200bthe boy money for the shoes,\u2062 the real problem with \u2064this\u200b song is the syrupy sentimentality that makes it embarrassingly cheesy rather than reflective.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>\u201cWonderful Christmastime,\u201d by Paul McCartney<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This holiday staple from 1979 \u200bgets \u200ca lot\u2062 of radio airtime \u200deven \u200bnow, but it must be from people who are intentionally tuning\u200d out the lyrics. All it takes is a moment of contemplation to realize that this effort from a former Beatles band member is lazy, \u200cnonsensical, and outright bad.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Even setting aside the obnoxious synthesizers in the background, which is difficult to do, the overall message of the \u200dsong makes zero \u2064sense.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The song begins,\u201cThe mood is right\/The spirit\u2019s up\/We\u2019re here tonight\/And \u200dthat\u2019s enough.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Then there\u2019s the\u2064 chorus: \u201cSimply having a wonderful Christmastime. \u200bSimply having a wonderful Christmastime.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Verse two isn\u2019t any better. \u201cThe party\u2019s on\/The feeling\u2019s here\/That only comes\/This time of year.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The third verse isn\u2019t even words, but is mostly noises. \u201cThe choir of children sing their song\/Ding dong, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-vice-president-pence-senate-majority-leader-mcconnell-and-house-minority-leader-mccarthy-wont-attend-president-trumps-goodbye-ceremony\/\" title=\"Republicans: Vice President Pence, Senate Majority Leader McConnell and House Minority Leader McCarthy, Won\u2019t Attend President Trump\u2019s Goodbye Ceremony\">ding dong<\/a>, ding dong, ding\/Ooh \u2064ooh ooh ooh \u200booh\/Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh\/Doo \u2062doo doo doo doo doo doo.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">McCartney clearly didn\u2019t put much effort into this one, yet it remains a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/espn-writer-hypes-colin-kaepernick-for-nfl-return-it-immediately-blows-up\/\" title=\"ESPN Writer Hypes Colin Kaepernick for NFL Return \u2013 It Immediately Blows Up\">popular play<\/a> on all the holiday stations.\u200d The real question is, why?<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>\u201cDo They Know It\u2019s Christmas?,\u201d by Band Aid<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cDo They \u200dKnow \u200bIt\u2019s Christmas?\u201d \u2063is a charity song written in 1984 to raise money for the famine in Ethiopia.\u200d It \u2063was originally recorded \u2064by Band Aid, a group of popular British and Irish\u200b musicians\u2064 including Bono, Phil\u200d Collins, Boy George, Paul McCartney, Sting, George Michael and several others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was written\u2062 by Bob Geldof\u2062 and\u2064 Midge Ure after a series of\u200c reports on \u200bthe African famine aired on the BBC, drawing more attention to the issue. The song succeeded in raising millions for\u200b the cause and\u200c was even re-recorded and repurposed for \u2063future issues, including an Ebola outbreak. But just raising money for a good cause doesn\u2019t help fix its problems or explain why it\u2019s\u2062 still in such heavy rotation today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The\u200b lyrics are a \u200dmajor part of the issue here, with \u201cthrow your arms around the world at Christmas time\u201d and \u201cWell tonight \u2063thank \u2062God it\u2019s them instead of you\u201d standing out as some particularly egregious\u200b lines. Again, it makes \u2063no sense why this song has become such a popular Christmas song when it\u2019s \u200dso strangely \u200cspecific.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>\u201cSanta Baby,\u201d\u200b by Eartha Kitt<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For\u200b some reason, a slew of \u2062female vocalists feel compelled to\u2064 record their \u2062own version of Eartha Kitt\u2019s \u2063consumerist ode, \u201cSanta Baby.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The song is already eye roll inducing thanks to the overall sentiment. Kitt first released the song with Henri Ren\u00e9 and \u200dHis Orchestra in 1953. The lyrics beg Santa to bring \u200bthe singer a cache of ridiculously expensive\u200b gifts, including a sable, a convertible, a duplex, blank checks, a yacht, and the deed to a \u2063platinum mine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It doesn\u2019t help that\u200d each new version seems to up the ante on being more sexually suggestive than the last with each new singer breathily requesting for Santa to \u201churry down the chimney tonight.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Truly, the \u200dwhole thing is a big \u201cick.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>\u201cI Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus,\u201d by Jimmy Boyd<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Listening to\u2064 \u201cI Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus\u201d as an adult is way different than listening to \u2062it as a child, which \u200donly becomes more painfully apparent as parents have to explain to their kids why this\u200c song isn\u2019t abhorrent without giving the punch line away.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The song was originally recorded in \u200d1952, though The Jackson\u2064 5\u2019s 1970 version gets \u2062a lot of radio playtime. Young kids might wonder why a little boy is singing about his mother getting\u2062 frisky under the mistletoe with a man she\u2019s \u200cnot \u2063married to and why everyone\u200d seems to find \u200dthis so amusing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Those in the know realize that Santa is (hopefully) the family patriarch and that \u200dhusband and \u200cwife are\u2063 just expressing some of their Christmas cheer while dad is dressed in a Santa suit. But for little kids, the whole concept is alarming. Especially when the narrator worries what his\u200d dad will do if\/when he finds out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maybe this song would be less offensive \u200cdecades ago before\u2063 non-monogamy and promiscuity were celebrated. But in this degenerate age, this type of thing just isn\u2019t that funny anymore.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> \u2064 What \u200bmessage\u2064 should Christmas songs aim to convey, \u200cand how do these songs fall short of achieving that goal<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Ont-weight: 400&#8243;>First released in 1953, \u200bthis song features\u200b Kitt seductively crooning to Santa Claus about the lavish gifts she desires for Christmas, including a yacht, a convertible, and a platinum mine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While some may argue that \u201cSanta Baby\u201d is a harmless\u2063 and playful holiday tune, others find it to be cringe-worthy and materialistic. The incessant repetition of lines like \u201cthink\u2063 of all the fun I&#8217;ve missed, think of all the fellas that I haven&#8217;t kissed\u201d\u2060 only adds to the song\u2019s \u2063questionable charm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s baffling \u200dthat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/audit-michigan-may-have-paid-billions-in-fraudulent-jobless-claims-gretchen-whitmer-administration-hit-with-kickback-allegations\/\" title=\"Audit: Michigan May Have Paid Billions in 'Fraudulent' Jobless Claims; Gretchen Whitmer Administration Hit with 'Kickback' Allegations\">radio stations<\/a> continue to play this song year after year, as it promotes a shallow \u2064and\u2063 materialistic view of the holiday season, rather than\u200d the message of love, generosity,\u200b and togetherness that Christmas is supposed to embody.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>\u201cI Want a\u2064 Hippopotamus for \u2064Christmas,\u201d by \u200dGayla Peevey<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Originally\u200b released in 1953, \u201cI Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas\u201d quickly became a\u2062 hit, and it has been tormenting listeners every holiday season ever since.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The song, sung by a child (Gayla Peevey) who is convinced that only a hippopotamus will do for \u200dher Christmas present, is incredibly repetitive and lacks any depth \u200dor meaningful message. Instead \u200cof focusing \u200con the true spirit of Christmas, the song fixates on a child&#8217;s materialistic desire for an exotic\u2062 pet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While it may have been charming and whimsical when it was first released, \u200bthe novelty has \u200cworn off over the years. It&#8217;s a wonder why \u2063radio stations continue to subject their listeners to this grating tune.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In conclusion, while Christmas songs are meant to bring joy\u200b and holiday spirit, some\u2064 popular songs fall short of that goal. Whether it\u2019s due to overly sentimental narratives, nonsensical lyrics, questionable messages, or repetitive tunes, these five Christmas songs prove to be some of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-here-are-the-10-worst-colleges-for-free-speech\/\" title=\"Report: Here Are The 10 Worst Colleges For Free Speech\">worst offenders<\/a>. It&#8217;s \u2063time for radio stations to\u200d reconsider their \u2062playlists and focus on sharing songs that truly embody the \u2063magic and meaning of \u200dChristmas.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Determining the worst Christmas songs is subjective. Consensus on the best or worst is unlikely. 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