As a broad rule, I oppose cancelation of speech and art. It’s a lousy precedent, and a great way to build a stupid society.
But there are exceptions that I can get behind:
Tomas Mazetti, 55, and wife Hannah, 33, have already raised more than £50,000 to banish the song to the history books – but with the rights estimated to be worth anywhere in the region of £20million they still have a long way to go…”‘It started last Christmas – pun not intended – when we asked friends how much they would be willing to pay never to hear the song again.”
Not since Omaha Beach has fate presented a generation with such a surpassing mission.
One of my unofficial goals each Christmas season (from Halloween on) is to get through the holidays without hearing “Jingle Bell Rock”. (One year things were looking good – and then I was ambushed by a company’s on-hold music.)
This year I finally met that goal! Being a hermit has its advantages.
I’m more than a little creeped out by this story. I did the math on ages & kids. She’s 33 wit a 16 yo so she was pregnant at 16-17. He’s 55 so that would put him at 38-39 when she was impregnated.
Are alarm bells going off for anyone else?
Avoiding “Last Christmas” is an annual game, known far and wide as Whamageddon. I have successfully avoided it for the last two seasons, but danger lurks everywhere.
The song “Last Christmas” is a worthy sang to avoid – no arguments there – but for me, “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” (Band-Aid ’84, Geldof, Ure) stands head and shoulders above in the awful derby. The whole song is intended to make you white westerners feel guilty about enjoying your stupid holiday while someone, somewhere is suffering.
You stupid conspiracy theorists… no one’s coming for your Christmas… Little did we know back then where these propaganda songs would lead… but now it seems so obvious.
“Last Christmas” — Really? Really? When you have John Lennon’s “So This is Christmas” written with his Gershwin muse Yoko OH! NO! it’s trite, musically banal and the children who sang in the background must all be in therapy. I always thought the second line,” and what have you done’ was along the lines of a mother bitterly and angrily chastising her child for writing on the wall or flooding the bathroom. Lennon’s song certainly fits into the progressive world.
^ true, this one too.
Though despised personally, I’ve adopted the Pogues “Fairytale of New York” as the official Christmas song for America.
If I had the cash, I’d produce a video replacing McCall and McGowan with a couple of tweeking trannies singing to each other over the phone from their respective government offices.