Happy Holidays everyone! Woo! Now that it's December - or really just after Thanksgiving - the one thing that becomes predominant in any public setting is seasonal music. Every store you walk in is playing some sort of Christmas-y, snow filled musical concoction. And I feel two ways about this. Any time before December 11th, the mass amounts of holiday music really makes me mad. It's no where near the holidays! When you start playing me Christmas music in NOVEMBER, I will breath fire. Copious amounts of fire. At your face. And you deserve it, because it isn't even the right month for that music. But then my opinion starts to shift, in a drastic sort of way. Once it's December 11th, which is exactly two weeks before Christmas, I love holiday music. It totally gets me into the spirit walking around my house belting out Baby It's Cold Outside or Blue Christmas. Two weeks is a respectable amount of time to play Christmas music. Not so much that my head explodes, but not so little that I look like Scrooge. It's just right. I love all the different singers who try their hand at holiday songs. I have six different versions of Baby It's Cold Outside on my iTunes. I have now referenced that song twice. Yeaaaaaaaa! Wow. I even have some random, obscure Christmas songs that no one has ever heard of, thanks to the free single thing on iTunes. There's this one called The Heart of Christmas that I listen to all the time. I think what I like most about holiday music is that it seems to be the one thing that everyone can agree on. Even if you're like me, and you only enjoy listening to it for two weeks, everyone will listen to it at some point during this season, and everyone will smile and sing along just a little bit, if not more. Maybe you just get a little smile, or maybe you're like me and rock out to whichever holiday song is playing over the loudspeakers at the supermarket, and make other people smile at your enthusiasm. But however you enjoy it, you do enjoy it. And the point of this season, for me anyway, is for everyone to come together over a common something. If that common something happens to be music that everyone knows and can sing along to, so be it. I think it's beautiful. Plus, as ShoreWhisperer continues to tell me and is trying to get me to listen to even as I type this in the school library, Justin Bieber made a Christmas album that is apparently "the best". So that's a bonus.
Real Teen Rating ~ Gets you into the spirit! Yay!!!
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