I said when I first started this blog I said I was going to put down what I was thinking about and invite you to comment. I realized I hadn't been doing much of that, so here's the first one.
A large pet peeve of mine is celebrities trying to run the world. I don't mind people like Bono who have a serious track record of trying to help people and change policy. I get frustrated when people like Sean Penn, who only briefly attended Santa Monica College where he studied Auto mechanic and speech, meet with people like President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, a very vocal opponent of the US. There are other celebs who have minimal schooling, but try to influence elections, wars,( don't get me started on Jane Fonda)...
But tonight, on the way home from Target, I listened to the song "Do They Know It's Christmas Time". It was written for Band-Aid, a group in the 80s concerned with global hunger. It's a great idea and worthy cause, but some of the lyrics make me crazy. Band Aid was concerned primarily with hunger in Africa. The chorus says, Do they know it's Christmas time at all? Well, at the time this was written, Christianity was not the prime religion in Africa, it still isn't today. So, they wouldn't know what Christmas was, much less that it was Christmas time.
I know this is nitpicking, but I have always been a black/white kind of person. I must have been an annoying little kid.
What do you think? Do you have some Christmas songs that drive you nuts? (Please don't smack down Grandma got run Over By a Reindeer. I can't help the accent I get when I sing it)
3 comments:
I prefer to think that they were referring to scrooge like people here, not the poor starving people in Africa.
I can't think of a Christmas song that drives me nuts, but I have only had the holiday music on for a day.
Christmas songs being played in November drive me nuts in general. I worked retail up until a couple years ago (both in the stores and as a buyer). So there is something about the post-Thanksgiving frenzy that grates on my nerves.
I couldn't agree more with "Do They Know It's Christmas Time." Ugh! My objection is more about the music itself than the lyrics.
I also find "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" annoying. How about the lyric "Oh, what a laugh it would have been
If Daddy had only seen
Mommy kissing Santa Claus last night." Really? A laugh? To see Mommy making out with another guy? Huh, strange kid.
I heard that song the other day and it struck me as weird too. One thing I've been annoyed with here is that all the songs being played on the radio are the silly Christmas/winter songs and never carols. I have yet to hear one that was actually religious. They are mostly just Santa songs and Silver Bells and Sleigh Rides. I want some real carols!
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