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.
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.