One down, two to go

Last week, on Monday, the floodgates opened. Since then there's been a constant barrage. I've yet to manage to go a day without at least some exposure. I speak, of course, of Christmas music. Before last Monday, I hadn't heard any Christmas music on the radio (well this year). Apparently they got together and decided to all start flooding the airways with it as of last Monday though. And I know it's going to get worse before it gets better.

People often criticize my lack of X-mas spirit when I complain about the music but I feel perfectly justified in doing so. Virtually all Christmas music falls into at least one of two categories.

Category one: Religious Overtones. Songs like "Silent Night" and "Little Drummer Boy" fall into this category. The large amount of religious Christmas music isn't all that surprising considering that Christmas started off as a Christian holiday. Considering that the commercialization of Christmas (not to mention the fact that it's a federal holiday which is highly illegal if Christmas is just a Christian thing) one can argue that Christmas has evolved into a far more secular event. I celebrate Christmas and I'm certainly not a Christian; many others can say the same.

Category two: Sucky (i.e. "Jingle Bells", "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"). I think this speaks for itself. Most Christmas music is just plain crappy.

Now I'm not saying that the radio stations shouldn't flood the airwaves with Christmas music, or that you shouldn't enjoy songs that fall into either of those categories. I'm just saying that I'm going to complain about it when I have to hear them. :P

PS - Blogger decided to go crazy and mess up my font sizes, boldings, paragraphs and spacings. I think I fixed most of it but if you see anything weird, that's your reason why. This will be the third fix (the other ones caused the editor to mess something else up) so I'm kinda too lazy to bother even checking to see if it turns out right this time.