What Is The Worst Christmas Song Of All Time?


By The GypsyNesters
Ahhhhhh… Christmas. The most wonderful time of the year. Nothing gets us in the spirit of the season more than tuning into the all-Christmas music station and wallowing in the warmth. Classics from Bing, Judy and Nat fit the bill for cockle-warming, but then Wham!’s Last Christmas pops in to remind us that not all holiday songs are classics.

We understand that these stations have a limited playlist to choose from, and snafus are inevitable — for example, we recently heard back-to-back versions of “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” while awaiting the drill in the dentist’s office.

While Michael Jackson and Bruce Springsteen vocally duking it out over the Big Man’s visit may be off-putting, nothing stops our holiday spirit dead in its tracks like a truly horrid Christmas song.

A recent family get-together found us gathered around the radio. Brenda Lee, followed by Burl Ives, lent their joyous voices to our celebration, but things took a turn when Justin Bieber burst in with an assault on The Little Drummer Boy. What made someone think that an ode to the baby Jesus and a shout out to your Twitter followers should be in the same recording?

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