It's the worst time of the year! to work in retail...
And I don't mean that because of the extra stress of customers that would trample over your dead body if you were lying in front of a flat screen, I mean that solely because of the Christmas music.
I'm not like the grinch, I have this one Christmas CD I like- it's a choir of actual good singers and it sounds actually good but the songs they play at work...
Well let's just say that when I get to walk through the Young Men's and Junior's department and they are playing Justin Beiber and Nickleback (non Christmas songs! oh God, don't even want to imagine, there just did, @#$%) I actually breathe a sigh of relief... I know. That was hard to admit. But they are really that bad!
A bad Christmas song can happen to anyone. I heard one at work I could have sworn was U2, and a version of 'I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus' that sounded remarkably like Bif Naked. Bono- I have lost all respect for you.
You have to be an amazing singer to pull off the classic Christmas songs- that's just the kind of songs they are. And the not so classic ones? Well even an amazing singer shouldn't touch those lyrics with a ten foot pole.
Example- Santa Baby
Someone is actually flirting with Santa. I think she's actually trying to prostitute herself out for a yacht- and really that's not a lot! clever. I could be oh so good if you would just cross off my Christmas list! How is this work appropriate? And an even better question- why is there a version of a guy singing Santa Baby? And just when you thought it couldn't get any worse...
Last Christmas I hated this song but the very next year Petsmart AND Macy's played it every hour anyway, next year to save me from tears I hope I don't work in retail...
and then,
In the meadow we can build a snowman and pretend that he's a circus clown...
I wish that I had made that one up, but no, that is the actual lyric. I assume because it rhymes with town although I can't tell you how many times I've built a snowman and thought wouldn't it be cool if I pretended this hunk of snow was a circus clown. Errr, okaaay
Now I'm going to go find refuge in the teen clothing section and they're at minute 77 of their endless two hour loop.
Tonight let's get some and live like we're young!
Ahhh! Is it bad that all I can think of is Santa Baby?
Sigh, good music is just not work appropriate I guess.
And I don't mean that because of the extra stress of customers that would trample over your dead body if you were lying in front of a flat screen, I mean that solely because of the Christmas music.
I'm not like the grinch, I have this one Christmas CD I like- it's a choir of actual good singers and it sounds actually good but the songs they play at work...
Well let's just say that when I get to walk through the Young Men's and Junior's department and they are playing Justin Beiber and Nickleback (non Christmas songs! oh God, don't even want to imagine, there just did, @#$%) I actually breathe a sigh of relief... I know. That was hard to admit. But they are really that bad!
A bad Christmas song can happen to anyone. I heard one at work I could have sworn was U2, and a version of 'I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus' that sounded remarkably like Bif Naked. Bono- I have lost all respect for you.
You have to be an amazing singer to pull off the classic Christmas songs- that's just the kind of songs they are. And the not so classic ones? Well even an amazing singer shouldn't touch those lyrics with a ten foot pole.
Example- Santa Baby
Someone is actually flirting with Santa. I think she's actually trying to prostitute herself out for a yacht- and really that's not a lot! clever. I could be oh so good if you would just cross off my Christmas list! How is this work appropriate? And an even better question- why is there a version of a guy singing Santa Baby? And just when you thought it couldn't get any worse...
Last Christmas I hated this song but the very next year Petsmart AND Macy's played it every hour anyway, next year to save me from tears I hope I don't work in retail...
and then,
In the meadow we can build a snowman and pretend that he's a circus clown...
I wish that I had made that one up, but no, that is the actual lyric. I assume because it rhymes with town although I can't tell you how many times I've built a snowman and thought wouldn't it be cool if I pretended this hunk of snow was a circus clown. Errr, okaaay
Now I'm going to go find refuge in the teen clothing section and they're at minute 77 of their endless two hour loop.
Tonight let's get some and live like we're young!
Ahhh! Is it bad that all I can think of is Santa Baby?
Sigh, good music is just not work appropriate I guess.
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