Well, the newest original Christmas song I can recall actually enjoying would be “Green Christmas” by the Barenaked Ladies, but that’s getting to be a teenager’s whole lifetime ago now.
Seeing what popular culture has done to Christmas gives me a kind of ambiguous feeling about Easter too: on the one hand, it irritates me that we have all of about two dozen of the same old hymns to sing and nothing else; but on the other hand, I’m not so sure I’d like to hear the results if popular singers were to do with Easter what they’ve done with Christmas.
Until the masses push back, this trend will only continue.
When was the last time we had a successful new Christmas song? Aren’t most of the ones we hear now written in the 1940s, 50s and 60s?
Well, the newest original Christmas song I can recall actually enjoying would be “Green Christmas” by the Barenaked Ladies, but that’s getting to be a teenager’s whole lifetime ago now.
Seeing what popular culture has done to Christmas gives me a kind of ambiguous feeling about Easter too: on the one hand, it irritates me that we have all of about two dozen of the same old hymns to sing and nothing else; but on the other hand, I’m not so sure I’d like to hear the results if popular singers were to do with Easter what they’ve done with Christmas.
Well, there’s “Where Are You, Christmas?” and “All I Want For Christmas Is You,” and (inexplicably) “Last Christmas” by Wham!…
To my knowledge, there’s only one real Easter song about the Easter Bunny (“Here Comes Peter Cottontail”). I would like to keep it that way.
There’s always “Christmas with the Devil” by Spinal Tap.