A Christmas Song Rant

Can someone tell me why we are still playing "White Christmas" on the radio????  WHITE CHRISTMAS????  SERIOUSLY????  That song was recorded in 1942!!!!!   1942!!!!!   Bing Crosby has been dead since 1977!!!!!   Are you telling me that that no one in the past 72 years has written another song that we can play instead?????

Or how about "Have yourself a merry little Christmas"?   Written in 1942 with several popular versions recorded in the 50s.

"Rockin' around the Christmas tree" was a LAME song when it was the "girl's song" at my Grade 7 Christmas concert and it has not got any better since.

And what about "Boney M"?   Boney M lives off of the Christmas album that they released in 1981.  Quick, name a Boney M song that is not on that Christmas Album...... I thought so.

And don't even get me started on  "Frosty the Snowman" or "The Little Drummer Boy"!!!!

Now someone is likely thinking, "Come on, bonehead (not a very Christmas like spirit there but anyway....) it is tradition.  We play those old songs for nostalgic reasons.  The baby-boomers loved them as kids.... their kids grew up listening to them.... those songs are part of Christmas".

And you know what... I will give you that.  There is something to say about tradition.  I am good with that.

Why, though, do we need to be subjected to 6874896789457689 versions of the same song recorded by 904690456804586 artists????   I  could have lived without ever hearing Michael Buble singing "Let it Snow".  Are you really trying to tell me that "One Direction" is going to do a better version of "White Christmas" than Bing Crosby did???  Not a chance!  Not if you locked them in the studio and made them sing it until they were dead!  What is with that?  We have, literally, 30+ Christmas CDs and they encapsulate 14 total songs!  That is sort of like going to the store, buying a new pair of pants and then opening the bag at home and finding your same old pants!  They just keep putting the same pants in a different bag and we keep paying for "new pants"!!!! 

And then - when someone does finally come out with a new song - sadly - they write something like "Text me Merry Christmas".  If you have not heard this stellar gem, have a listen here......

Actually, I take that back.  I would rather listen to "Text me Merry Christmas" than "Last Christmas" by Wham (which gets played all the time and is 30 years old now too).  At least "Text me Merry Christmas" is actually about Christmas.  "Last Christmas" is just set at Christmas time.  It could have been called "Last Cattle Round Up" and it is still the exact same song.

So - please - someone..... somewhere..... write a new song about Christmas.  Just one!  I guarantee that you will be "Laughing all the way"..... to the bank at least!

Especially if you can figure out some way to get Bing Crosby to sing it.