Whats your gut response when you hear a Mariah Carey Christmas song?

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[no_hypocrisy]

1. Ironic, if not hypocritical

Singing a song about love and desire and Christmas wishes while not being able to sustain a relationship in reality.

Reminds me of Janis Joplin.

Paraphrasing: "I go out and make love to my audience and every time, I go home alone."

[pfitz59]

2. I'm fine with it

I have wanted a lover on Christmas.

[AltairIV]

3. Ugh.

Hit skip, change the station, leave the room.

[Lunabell]

4. Its a classic.

I love this song, but then, I love Christmas songs. It's the only song of hers I like.

[hlthe2b]

5. I avoid enough commercial Christmas music such that I can tolerate it (and most others) a couple times

throughout the season. I really don't tire of Vince Guaraldi (Charlie Brown Christmas) and a couple of other selections, but the rest of the repetitive classics make me crazy if I hear them too much.

I do enjoy some non-commercial, far more traditional carols played on very traditional (less common) instruments though. Among the albums that fits that bill is Buce Cockburn's Christmas album from 1993 (the subject of an NPR interview that year that fascinated me). He and his band spent years locating those instruments and learning how to play them, as well as learning quite a few languages. Here from that album is the old Spanish carol that was once the call of Basque sheepherders, Riu Rui Chiu.

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[Ocelot II]

6. The same as for all other cheap-shit commercial Christmas music,

which is about all you hear any more unless you go out of your way to find the classics. Which do not include those musical abominations "The Little Drummer Boy" and "Mary Did You Know."

[Attilatheblond]

7. Change the stations

QUICK!

[2naSalit]

8. My response comes in steps...

First, Ugh! 'where's the volume/power switch?'

Second, "not this again"

Third, "I'm sure there have been a number of far better holiday songs released since this one which should have faded into obscurity by now."

[Iggo]

9. Get to the "dial" as fast as I can.

And still that’s not fast enough.

[Aristus]

11. I listen to this to cleanse the palate. Same song, much different (and creepier) rendition:

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16. Stalker's version.

[ProfessorGAC]

12. Mixed Emotion

Song is ok I suppose, but it's not clear, even reading the lyrics, if the sentiment of loneliness or excitement over having her partner, and that's all she needs.
The one that confuses me as a Christmas "tradition" is this on. Why is this a Christmas song?

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[SamKnause]

13. I have never listened to it.

I don't like Christmas music.

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14. ...

[Different Drummer]

15. My gut responds very negatively at the mere thought of such.