What's the Deal with Depressing XMAS Music?

As I slog through the retail hell known as the Christmas season, I have been bombarded by 10 hours of Christmas music a day from any of the three local stations that play Christmas music 24/7. It's bad enough that these three stations play the same 30 songs repeated over and over ad nausuem but what's worse they actually play some very depressing songs.

The Christmas season is depressing & stressful enough on its own. I consider any day that I don't put a gun in my mouth and pull the trigger or climb a tall building and start shooting random people to be a sucessful one. The last thing I need to hear are depressing Christmas songs.

Now I'm not talking about the Elivs classic Blue Christmas, no I'm talking about the downright morose songsthat they play. The two chief offenders being:

1.Someone is Missing this Christmas. This cheerful ditty features a female singer singing about her dead mother not being there to bake with and talk to and do all of the holiday activities and how sad it is and how it's not just Christmas without her. I've yet to catch the name of the artist responsible for this "carol"

The second one and the greatest offender is The Chrismas Shoes by Newsong.  This happy ball of Chistmas glee tells the story of a poor boy who wants to buy a pair of shoes for his dying mother so she will look pretty when she dies and meets Jesus. Of course the boy doesn't have enough money which leads to even more stories of suffering.  It does have a "happy ending" in that a jaded person finds the Christmas spirit and buys the shoes so mama can die happy.

I don't want to hear these songs but they are played every hour. I want to here a drunk Dean Martin singing baby it's cold outside, I want Andy Williams, Burl Ives, The Vienna Boys Choir, the Boston Pops or the Chipmunks sing and play happy songs and classic carols not a doom and gloom christmas dirge.

Five more days to survive,

D