Sorry for the delay in today's Hanukkah giveaway! I totally thought this went live this morning but it didn't. My bad! Blame all the fried food I've been eating – makes me sleepy!
Anyway, today's present for you from me is a chance to win a Kindle Touch! Yay! All you have to do is leave a comment with the one holiday song you are SO LOOKING FORWARD TO NOT HEARING ANYMORE.
ETA: I goofed! I want to be clear: this contest is for a Kindle Touch 3G with Special Offers! I linked to the WiFi-only model, but it's the 3G/WiFi/Special Offers model. My bad!
Me: “All I Want for Christmas is You,” which for some reason I have heard six millionity times this week, and “Jingle Bell Rock,” which makes my eyeballs twitch.
Standard disclaimers apply: I'm not being compensated for this giveaway. (I have to say, I'm amused at the idea of even asking someone to sponsor all this crazy. Imagine that conversation!) Your mileage may vary. Void where prohibited by law. Must be over 18 and wearing slippers to win. Open to international winners though it is your responsibilty to make the Kindle do tricks for you. Call before you dig. Preheat to 350.
Happy almost the end of holiday music on the radio, and Happy Hanukkah, and oh! Happy Boxing Day!
Definitely the Chipmunk Christmas Song! I even heard it in French… Some songs should not exist in one language, let alone two! The Chipmunks’ voice set my teeth on edge – not exactly the reaction I like from my holiday music 🙂
I’m personally looking forward to not hearing “Lulaj?e Jezuniu” (“Sleep Baby Jesus,” loosely translated). It’s a traditional Polish carol, and although it sounds beautiful (here’s a version of it done by the Polish Song and Dance Ensemble, Mazowsze – http://youtu.be/inoWL5fhZWA), it’s been played EVERYWHERE (because it’s a traditional carol) and I’ve started getting a tic when I hear it. It doesn’t help that I realized recently it’s basically a Christmas carol version of “Go the F**k to Sleep,” which makes it really hard to explain the snickering to my grandparents (or to contain myself in church). *facepalm*
I can’t even narrow it down to only 1. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed the local station that has been playing Christmas music since December 1st but if I never hear the following I would be so so relieved: any Christmas music by Mariah Carey, The Christmas Shoes song, & the Bandaid ‘do they know its Christmas’ song. Oy, so very very annoying.
In contrast, I couldn’t hear Josh Groban’s “oh holy night” often enough. And wish there had been more airplay of the Mannheim Steamroller or Celtic Christmas music but I suppose that was too much to wish for from a main-stream station.
The Christmas Shoes and I agree on All I Want For Christmas Is You. Most Christmas songs make me twitchy. My retail job ruined them for me.
I know this is probably mean but I’m tired of Band Aids “Do They Know It’s Christmas” song. I know, I know!!! We have a radio station that plays only Christmas songs from Thanksgiving to Christmas and EVERY time I listen to it they play that song at least twice. And I might only have the radio on an hour!!! Then there’s Springsteens “Santa Clause is Coming to Town”. UGH!
It is tie between “All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth” and “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus”
Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer, reminds me of living in Arkansas
Blue Christmas and Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer
Oh, the Christmas Shoes has to be the worst Christmas song ever. I would love to never hear it again, but I will settle for not hearing it for the next eleven months.
All I want for Xmas is you is *everywhere* this year. Also, my cousin with whom I spent Xmas actually likes that song. As does my across the hall neighbor. I’m good with it being retired a while.
On the other hand, I’m not really complaining, because I have not heard Grandma got run over by a reindeer once! It’s a xmas miracle.
Christmas music went to hell when someone decided that it would be an awesome idea for Alvin and the Chipmonks to sing all the classics… Shame on them.
I have xm radio in my car, and there is no music where I work, so I’ve been spared this season from the worst of it. Another commenter wrote about how she was a teller at a bank inside a Walmart, and the holiday music was on a 30 minute loop. That is my personal idea of torture.
All the Mariah Carey Duets etc. Especially the Justin Bieber one!!!
Any version of “Santa Baby” that is not Eartha Kitt’s, and “All I Want for Christmas is You.” Actually, all I want for Christmas is to not hear this song ever again.
I agree—it is completely, utterly wrong.
I NEVER want to hear “Christmas Through Your Eyes” by Gloria Estefan. No real reason that I don’t like it…I like her…but every time I hear that song I want to scream!
Whatever the name is of the Christmas song about the little boy trying to buy some shoes…Christmas Shoes? So depressing 🙁
One Little Christmas Tree. Love it, actually, but it makes me bawl my eyes out each time.
I also am sooooo done with “Jingle Bell Rock” as well! Wth is a “jingle horse”?
Rockin’ around the Christmas tree
I HATE Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, both the song and the cartoon. Rudolph is bullied and ostracized for being different until they can use him for something in particular. Then all the reindeer loved him. pffft!
I also don’t like Little Drummer Boy, any version, Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer, or Michael Buble’s Santa, Baby.
I’m not a huge fan of “The Little Drummer Boy,” but, I swear, if I hear that affront to the holidays, to music, and to humanityin general, “Christmas Shoes,” ever again, I’m going to have to take a hostage. It’s just the most vile thing ever. I’d rather hear an hour-long loop of The Jingle cats. But Patton Oswalt’s mocking of that song is essential listening. Head over to YouTube and type in “patton oswalt chirstmas shoes” and bathe in the glow of righteous indignation. 🙂
I work at a certain giant-chain coffee shop that plays Christmas music, so I’m sick of all of them. Special dislikes for “Baby It’s Cold Outside” (date rape is sweet and funny!) and “Santa Baby” (although I would love to hear a version with baritone vocals). I now love the Nutcracker because it was the only instrumental music in the playlist.
Ugh. If I hear Santa, Baby one more time, I may scream. Good riddance to Santa, Baby for another year.
Any version of Santa Baby. That song has got to go. (Exception: Eartha Kitt. But all of the other versions are played out.)
Christmas Shoes. Not to start a religious discussion but what kind of savior would even care what shoes you are wearing when you die?!?!? Save your money kid, or save your receipt, cause those shoes aren’t really a good choice.
Holly Jolly Christmas…never again!
Justin Bieber’s version of All I Want for Christmas is You, and I have to agree that any version of Baby It’s Cold Outside drives me nuts.
If I never hear “The Christmas Shoes” ever again, it will not make up for the amount of times it has haunted me this holiday.
White Christmas…Please no more!!!!!
I so agree with loathing Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer. Although for some reason everyone on Facebook seemed to put up their favorite version of Baby It’s Cold Outside and honestly, that started to set my teeth on edge.
It feels like every store I went into was playing “All I Want for Christmas is You”. A year may be to soon to start hearing that again. Although at this point any holiday song is approaching nails on chalkboard.
I, for one, can’t wait to stop hearing “Feliz Navidad” wherever I go.
It’s a toss up between Mariah Carey screeching “All I want for Christmas is You” and the “I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas”.
Mariah Carey- All i want for Christmas. SO overplayed
Please……we stream iTunes at work and we stream the GotRadio Christmas channel. I can’t possibly hear the I want a Hippopotamus for Christmas song even one more time….I might go postal!
Celine Dion version of Feliz Navidad.
Mistletoe by Justin Bieber. The nieces play it all the time! 🙁
Jingle bells is driving me batty.
For me it’s “All I want for Christmas”
If I never hear “it’s a marshmallow world” again I’d be ecstatic…that song seriously makes me stabby.