The memes about it coming starting to pop up in mid october. Its one joke about the song being overplayed, the joke is never original, Ive never seen a creative version of it. If old people have “boomer humor” whats the short term for “Millenials without two brain cells to rub together who will share on any joke that they understand”
The song is well produced overplayed pandering pop garbage. The jokes about it suck more.
That song is a strong example of how people will go out of their way to make themselves miserable. I don’t hear the song that often and those that do, must be going out of their way to hear it if they spend all waking moments complaining about it.
I find it way more annoying now of people complaining of the song than the song itself. Like shut up, learn to figure out how to cope and it won’t be that annoying. Or find something bigger to be annoyed by than a stupid song.
You sound like someone that hasn’t had to listen to that song on repeat every half-hour of the working day from November to January while serving the dregs of society we call holiday retail shoppers.
Its not about this particular song being good or bad. Practically any other sufficiently popular Christmas song could be a drop-in replacement for all of these memes. We who have worked retail (or retail adjacent public sevice) have trauma related to the circumstances of that seasonal torture.
This song is just a lightning rod because it has become a cultural shorthand for all this. That’s what many jokes are by the way, cultural references that relieve tension around a group’s shared trauma. That is exactly what memes are. This opinion boils down to, “I don’t like this meme, because it is a classic meme and I don’t like memes because they are memes.”
I only did 2 years in retail (20 years ago) but I want to add: the song is really hard to ignore. It’s not background music by any means
Every time it came on you could see at least one employee stand up and “brace themselves” for it - whether they knew someone was watching or not. Think that picture of Ben Affleck smoking a cigarette. A look of total defeat.
I don’t hate the song anymore but boy do I get it. And, unlike the Paul McCartney song, this one gets played MORE as the years go on
I literally worked retail from the time this was released and was played 2-3 times an hour that first year. It’s a good song but Im tired of it.
Last Christmas, I gave you my heart
But the very next day,
you gave it away.
This year, to save me from tears
I’ll give it to someone special
(Special)
🎵🎶🎶🎵this is the real song that gives me retail PTSD. it’s just so repetitive, and i swear the mall playlist had three or four different versions of it
Gotta be “Rockin around the christmas tree” for me. Its just pure shit, it doesnt “rock” and its never performed well.
What amuses me about this take is that the jokes about the song being played all the time fall prey to the exact same overexposure mechanism that made people dislike the song in the first place. As the song gets more commonly perceived as being overexposed, the idea of its overexposure itself becomes more and more popular until it is itself perceived as overexposed. Like a memetic echo.
Yeah, I do see the irony in talking about how annoying it is talking about it. But for me it amplifies the annoyance at the song because I’m already fed up with hearing about it before I hear it in the wild.
Let it all out. 🙏
🎵These are the things I could do without🎵