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Is Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” the Best We Can Do for Christmas?
It’s a sad reality that until another song about Christmas comes along — or our culture and society changes — Mariah Carey will remain more popular than Santa, Frosty, Rudolf, and even Jesus during the Thanksgiving & Christmas seasons.
It seems to me that Christmas music is being played earlier and earlier every year. I myself consider the Christmas season to begin on Black Friday but I’m old school. Due to Christmas creep — the slow encroachment of the holiday season — some businesses start playing Christmas music as soon as November 1st.
We should enjoy Halloween and enjoy Thanksgiving while building anticipation for Christmas. Then we can finally celebrate and play Christmas music. I enjoy listening to Christmas music, but only after Thanksgiving. After all, the title of the English Christmas Carol is the “Twelve Days of Christmas,” not the twelve weeks of Christmas.
Part of Christmas music is to have fun and enjoy getting into the holidays spirit. If we enjoy Christmas songs for only three to four weeks, they stay joyful and not annoying or repetitive. Waiting to hear the classics and the not…