That hideous Christmas song by Paul McCartney. Something inside me rots like leprosy every time I'm subjected to it. A lot of Christmas songs are wretched tripe. But this one, with its grotesquely childish repetitions and specious, smothering inanity has a special place in hell. - ThreadSky

dainty-bastard.bsky.social • 5 days ago

That hideous Christmas song by Paul McCartney. Something inside me rots like leprosy every time I'm subjected to it.
A lot of Christmas songs are wretched tripe. But this one, with its grotesquely childish repetitions and specious, smothering inanity has a special place in hell.

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rollwithit.bsky.social•5 days ago

The Shins did a good cover of it that makes my Xmas music list.

essexcountymauve.bsky.social•5 days ago

Gave us this, though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW1ou7SH3is

odinthavok.bsky.social•5 days ago

Most Christmas songs hit me like that. I was never a huge fan of Christmas, but then I worked at a gas station where they played like 6 songs on repeat starting on November 1st. I was working 80+ hours a week at the time. I looked forward to the sermon that played at midnight, just so it would stop

celestinakitty.bsky.social•5 days ago

there's a meme where it's actually a cover song for stabbing someone and it made me laugh enough i don't swear when i hear it anymore

worfwworfington.bsky.social•5 days ago

Fair, but I will kill people who mock Last Christmas

ligiaalmeida.bsky.social•5 days ago

There's a version of this song in Brazil and it's used as the sign, as Mariah's song, the Xmaswas coming, gimme the chills

cdmoore1972.bsky.social•5 days ago

I'm convinced if I hear this it will become an earworm and then give me a migraine. This is my number 1.

ambivalentricky.bsky.social•5 days ago

yeah that one's completely awful

hobbestoo.bsky.social•5 days ago

Yup!

fowlwhispers.bsky.social•5 days ago

This song is designed in a lab to be the worst Christmas song, I swear. The ever so slightly off synth. The absolutely dogshit lyrics. The stop-start rhythm. The way McCartney sings it with the same enthusiasm you might have in making small-talk with your dentist's secretary.

pinnedmist.bsky.social•5 days ago

Most definitely in my top worst 5.

admiralbooth.bsky.social•5 days ago

Not as bad as Imagine OR Merry Christmas (War Is Over). Pseudo hippie love and peace bullshit from a multimillionaire.

factorone.bsky.social•5 days ago

The only thing worse than that is the abomination of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Happy Xmas.

quannum.bsky.social•5 days ago

For someone who wrote some of the greatest songs in human history, there's this... And Temporary Sectetary

hanner.org.uk•5 days ago

Actually it's great. The song has some heavy Bach-like and non-obvious classical leanings in the chords and melody. And it's Paul out of The Beatles, high, mucking around with a Yamaha CS80.

PS. Christmas is childish and repetitive innit

dainty-bastard.bsky.social•5 days ago

lindsay-lkh.bsky.social•5 days ago

Yes! I came here to say this. Every time I hear it, I think Sir Paul should be stripped of his knighthood...Sounds like a 10 yr old wrote it.

leeanneg.bsky.social•5 days ago

this is in my top 5 of most detested songs. i will leave stores if it’s playing.

lorenfox.bsky.social•5 days ago

Reminds of this famous summary:

"On 'Wonderful Christmastime', Sir Paul McCartney set out to make a timeless Christmas classic and also to figure out what all the buttons on his synthesizer did, and he absolutely succeeded in one of those."

globalchris.bsky.social•5 days ago

All Christmas songs should be banned apart from Fairytale Of New York and Driving Home For Christmas. All else goes in the sea, especially the Mike Oldfield dirge. It makes me want to stab people.

skymoo.bsky.social•5 days ago

Marvellous! I do like the song but it’s fair comment

garyruschman.bsky.social•5 days ago

This song bothers me not at all. Still can’t figure out why folks hate it.

insuranceunderwrit.bsky.social•5 days ago

3 of the top 5 all-time worst from the same artist. Wonderful Christmas Time, Silly Love Songs, and Bang Bang Maxwell's Silver Hammer. That last was so bad, it made John Lennon quit the Beatles.

verbalee.bsky.social•5 days ago

It’s not the beat, it's the inanity...

waggingtale.bsky.social•5 days ago

A huge +1 here

cat-appreciator.bsky.social•5 days ago

I had managed to suppress the memory of that one’s existence.

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