I’m not really one to point fingers at others for rushing the Christmas season. I, myself have occasionally gotten a bit over zealous about putting up the Christmas decorations or listening to Christmas music. But that’s usually at the END of November. After Thanksgiving, at least. I understand that the stores feel the need to push Christmas things on the consumer early. There might be people like my mom, who do all their Christmas shopping in early August, around. They wouldn’t want to miss out on their buying power. And choir groups, of course, need to start learning those Christmas songs early. I know we’ve been playing Christmas music in bells since July, so I understand the need for some of us to rush the season a bit. But the radio stations? Playing all Christmas music ALL day starting November 1st? Come On! There are two local stations that are playing only Christmas music right now. That’s two entire months of Christmas music. That’s 1\/6 of the year that they will be playing Christmas music. Doesn’t that seem a bit EXTREME to you?<\/p>\n
I wouldn’t mind an occasional Christmas song every once in a while starting around the 20th of November. I’ve been playing my new Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas CD with Sissel a few times since I got it two weeks ago, and that’s ok. What I play in the privacy of my own home is my business. But if I ran a radio station and made everyone go all Christmassy right now, that’s not cool. I mean, if you look outside, it’s nowhere near Christmassy out there. I’m still enjoying the lovely Fall Season, for Heaven’s sake. I haven’t even gotten all the Halloween things put away, and then I hear Celine belting out Oh Holy Night and it just doesn’t fit. I don’t think the early playing of Christmas songs gets me in the mood for Christmas at all! It just makes me irritated.<\/p>\n
And this is coming from Miss Christmas. Can you believe it? I guess I’ll just have to avoid those stations, right? Bah humbug.<\/p>\n
(You’ll have to excuse me if I sound really really grumpy in this post. I’m sitting in my office surrounded by hundreds of reflections entries and I think I’m just a bit stressed out.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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