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[–] [email protected] 123 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh you think they will wait till December, you poor innocent child.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I do not think they will wait to December, but they will not bring her out in full force until after Thanksgiving. Then she will be EVERYWHERE.

  • Every radio station,
  • every shopping center,
  • every grocery store,
  • parks with lit fir trees will have speakers screaming out "All I want for Christmas is you, baby (Ah, oh, ah, oh)"

You walk into Walgreens to pick up flu medicine, and pass by ornaments like these

You'd rather hear the Whos in Whoville singing "Fah-who foris, dah-who doris, welcome Christmas, bring your light. " than this!

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lucky Americans with your late thanksgiving. After the Remembrance Day on the 11th Canada goes into full Christmas mode, Mariah included.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I’m so sorry.

Yes, that's how Canadians react as well.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I learned not to make dentist appointments in December. You're trapped there for 30-60 minutes. Fucking Christmas music. I hate it

[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You know damn well this shit is starting in November

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Thanks Obama!

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (4 children)

She has defrosted last month here already in the Philippines

I envy all of you

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

The real reason why we need to stop climate change.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Filipino households have been making her stronger every year. Soon she'll be thawed out before summer ends.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Fucking hell, is there no decency??

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Name something more Filipino than playing Mariah Carey Christmas songs in October

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (4 children)

This and 20 versions of Last Christmas, which isn't a fucking Christmas song it's a goddamn breakup/cheater song.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

you gotta admit that whamageddon is pretty funny though

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Don't forget the third in the trifecta of holiday mood souring. Christmas Shoes.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

In the 1990s, I worked at a video arcade. We had a VHS tape on a loop that we would get updated by mail once a month. It had a selection of music videos, cartoons, and other short things that no one ever paid attention to. That song was on the tape the December it came out. Because I worked a 40 hour week and we had the tape for a month and I had to hear the song once an hour, I heard it for a total of 160 times that month.

I hate that song and Mariah Carey.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Some say, in some walmarts and home depot, she roams the speakers year round.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I sure hope they give employees good mental health insurance then.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

They do not, this song is more used to get employees to quit.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Mariah Carey has made over $70 million from just this one song, averaging over $2 million per year since she wrote it in 1994

Also, She's sold over 200 million albums and has had 19 #1 singles, second only to the Beatles.

IMO, Emotions from '91 is a damn good album, and her best

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's pretty much the only reason she hasn't been forgotten. She really doesn't do anything anymore.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

Shit I wouldn't either. She gets paid per play and every retail is mainlining it for 3 months straight.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You know why all Christmas music was written in the 50s or earlier? Cuz anything newer just feels like cash grabs and pandering.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Surely the darkness song should be on there, that's played loads at Christmas... and from the 00's?

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Home Depot has had Christmas decorations out since early September. There's a war, alright, and Christmas is the aggressor. Repetitive, banal music is just one of its weapons.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah I was hearing her in my local supermarket about 2 weeks ago 😫

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's climate change. Early defrosting

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

If we continue like this we will have Mariah Carey all year long. This is why we need to stop climate change!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I am really getting sick of Christmas shit being displayed and pushed in October. Quit ruining Halloween. Save that shit for Thanksgiving at least that closer to it.

For one I say Fuck Christmas and will not celebrate it. It all capitalism bullshit only reason they keep starting so early. Soon as fall hits they start right off with the Christmas shit because I guess Halloween doesn't have the financial draw for retail as Christmas.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hahaha, october.... In Germany they put up the decoration in late August this year.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

The Picard/Q duet version has saved the song for me: https://youtu.be/3KvWwJ6sh5s?si=YfbjaTox1K6UJsIw

Of course now I think the Carey version is just wrong. She doesn't even try to quote Shakespeare.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't want a lot for Christmas. I just want this song to die.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Oh she's defrosted alright. My company sent the memo to start playing the Xmas playlist starting today, for 50% of tracks. Then December up to 100%. I'm happy I'm WFH and can listen to whatever I like.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Holy fuck I hate nothing more than christmas music.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Costco doesn't play any music which makes it freaking awesome during holiday times

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We need the holiday music draft. I'll take ALL your Mariah songs if you just take my "Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time" by Wings. I adore McCartney, saw him in concert. I hate this song.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Am I the only one who likes this song? I even love Last Christmas. I think it's because I don't go into brick and mortar stores often, so I can go a whole season and only hear it a few times. Somehow I hear Father Christmas and Christmas Wrapping way more often.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Retailers want to play Christmas music to encourage shopping, but only secular music to avoid causing offense. If you look at all the most popular Christmas songs and take out any that with religious lyrics (Silent Night, Joy to the World, Oh Come all ye Faithful, etc.) you'd be hard pressed to put together a playlist longer than an hour or two.

An employee working an eight hour shift will therefore hear the same song a minimum of four times. In my experience it's closer to six, but we'll be conservative here. That means Mariah Carey is telling you that you're all she wants for Christmas at least twenty times a week. Most stores start up the Christmas music in early November, but we're being charitable and saying the music will be playing from Thanksgiving through the week of Christmas.

The TL;DR is that your average full-time retail worker is going to hear the same few Christmas songs a bare minimum of 80-120 times during the busiest time of the year. That figure doubles in a worst case scenario where a one hour loop is played starting after Halloween. A ton of people have worked retail at some point on their lives so while you might not be the only one who likes this song you might have a hard time finding people who don't have a knee-jerk resentment towards it.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't want a lot for Christmas

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