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!
Grandma got ran over by a reindeer
I would cheerfully do away with any version of “Little Drummer Boy” that does not have David Bowie involved. You can stick them right in your pa-rump-pum-pum-pum.
Definitely “The Christmas Shoes”. Worst song ever.
I can’t stand Santa baby, what a gross song.
I’ve had to listen to Christmas music for over a month. The only radio station playing in my office when holiday music 24/7 since the week before Thanksgiving. So I’m over ANY Christmas songs for the near future.
All I Want for Christmas has been my ear worm this week so I will be glad to be done with it. Also, Silent Night which always sounds mopey to me.
The one they played at work last year that bothered me the most was Crash Test Dummies: Jingle Bells it will freak you out
Grandma got run over by a reindeer!!!
Geez – the first time it’s funny – the 100th time NOT!
There are many, but if forced to choose, “The Christmas Shoes”. I loathed that song the first time I heard it.
I’ll how ever many-eth All I Want for Christmas is You and Santa Baby, but my biggest “Please, kill it with fire!” do not want has to be I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Clause. I’ve always hated it.
I’m totally looking forward to “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” being frozen out. That song has such a creepy tone.
So sick of Wham’s “Last Christmas”. Thanks for the chance, I’d love a Kindle!!!!!
Celine Dion’s Oh Holy Night. Not sure, but I think she was singing in French for a portion of it.
I join the “All I Want for Christmas is You” by Mariah Carey hate. It’s been stuck in my head for days upon days.
The Dean Martin version of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, where he calls him “Rudy” = ICK.
As much as I love it, I’ve heard Santa Baby way too many times this year.
I’ve tried to avoid all of the overplayed carols. Why did they starting on November 1 this year? I’ll be happy to hear the end of Last Christmas. I actually like the song, but am really annoyed when I can’t get it out of my head for days at a time!
Pretty much anything on Pandora’s “indie holidays” station makes me wish to be temporarily deaf.
Ug I’ve been hearing the same songs over and over on our work radio station since Thanksgiving. “Rockin around the Christmas Tree” and “Jinglebell Rock” make me want to stick something sharp in my eye!
The 12 days of Christmas! I HATE that song!!!
“Danny Boy” sung by Andy Williams, or any of the other incarnations. I just get so overfilled with this song by the end of the holiday run.
“Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer.” My late grandmother used to call the radio station to complain if it was played; she found it really offensive and disrespectful, and so I have never found it funny. This year it’s featured in a TV commercial, which just makes it worse.
Do You Hear What I Hear. Definitely one of my least favorite songs. Also, the Christmas shoes song. Although, I managed to get through the holiday season without hearing that one.
Okay, I’m sorry but Baby It’s Cold Outside is NOT a “date rape” song because she makes it clear LONG before that she WANTS to stay but is trying to be coy. She’s already said “Yes” before the song even starts.
Sorry, I had to defend that one especially since I have the sheet music and can see for myself that she wants to sleep with him.
Also, I think Santa Baby is cute. And I do it better than Madonna.
Any version of Santa Baby. It also makes my eyeballs twitch. Can I add Jingle Bell Rock, Rockin around the Christmas tree. Last year I would have added the Hippo song, but I didn’t hear it a single time this year!
OMG, all of them. I’ve never been a huge fan of Christmas music.
Mine is a *very* close tie between Band Aid’s ‘Do They Know it’s Christmas?’ (which I yell at, every time it comes on, that it is NOT A CHRISTMAS SONG. IT IS DEPRESSING). And the second is Paul McCartney’s ‘Wonderful Christmastime’. UGH. WE HATES IT.
I personally didn’t hear ENOUGH Mariah Carey his year. But then again, I spent next to no time in any store other than grocery shopping. I was done with Christmas purchasing by thanksgiving (I WASN’T done with Christmas, just the purchasing of items. There was a lot to be knit/baked/hot-glue-gunned)
Jingle Bell Rock, as sung by the mean girls crew in the movie. My daughter rewatches it every 4 hours on christmas.
For some reason Silver Bells has always annoyed me. But anything featuring Justin Bieber is bad in my book.
“Christmas Shoes”. Hate that song.
Feliz Navidad. This song gets stuck in my head for days after I hear it or someone mentions it.
Sarah hope you have it in you to hear it one more time cuz this version cracks me up- it’s the literal version by Hall and Oates 🙂 http://youtu.be/iJz0q8O5PzM
I have a hard time with many of the pop remakes, but I have to agree that Santa baby in any form drives me bonkers at this point!
I’m actually not sick of any particular song this year, but I think it might be due to the fact that I’m not working retail this year. Now all the Christmas music I listen to is by choice!!
My pick is The Little Drummer Boy, the Hey Jude of Christmas music. Rum tum rum tum UGH. I’ll add that I threatened to make my husband turn off the cable Holiday Music channel (yes, there really is one) when Donde esta Santa Claus came around for a second time. Once was much more than enough.
This year I have constantly been earwormed by “Do They Know It’s Christmas”. I mean, really. Do they care? Don’t they have more important things occupying their attention? ARGH! And now I’ve just earwormed myself again!
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All of them. But I particularly hate the ones that begin with a smarmy conversation about something lame like teacher/famous singer asking “shall we sing this?” and kids/treacly-voiced bimbettes answering “why yes!” *hurl*
(Harsh? Maybe, but I have to continue hearing this crap until all twelve days of Christmas are over, and we’re only on Day 3! And it began before Advent started!)
Any of the Charlie Brown Christmas songs, especially Christmas Time is Here. I feel like taking an icepick to my ears the second that starts.
“Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer”……dear Gawd!!!
I’m in Israel and we don’t really get overburdened with Christmas songs here, but I sympathize with the anti-Michael Buble comments…