There is some that is pretty bad. But the classics are all good in my book.
So when the Christmas season started and we started playing Christmas music on the satellite radio at the store, I seriously thought about quitting. Note that most weeks I only work two four hour shifts. But after ten minutes I was ready to poke my own eardrums out.
After a couple of days of that, I was manager for a shift, and I was all "oh thank god I can play Bruce Springsteen now." But the boss stopped by to pick up some stuff and said "now remember, we have to play Christmas music."
And I asked, is that the only Christmas station? And she said, there is another one, but it's more pop, like Mariah Carey. And I said, isn't there a classsical one? And she said, that's the one we've been playing - you know, Bing Crosby and stuff.
So after she left I went online and of course there is another station, with, like, choral music and so on. Classical and TRADITIONAL Christmas music.
Argh. I try not to be a snob, seriously I do, but Bing Crosby is not CLASSICAL.
The thing is, I really love Christmas music. But I mean traditional Christmas music. Like, I can still sing all the alto lines to, you know, Hark the Herald Angels Sing and Joy to the World and so on, without needing a score, despite not having been in a chorus in about a decade. I spent formative years of my youth performing in a folk music Christmas theatrical production. I own wonderful Renaissance Christmas music CDs and wonderful folk music. Songs that people have been singing at this season for centuries.
And then someone tells me that Bing Crosby is classical Christmas music and I just want to go live in a cabin in the woods with internet.
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