Christmas music (on the radio)

First off, don't get me wrong. I like Christmas and the music associated with it. What gets me is how one of our local radio stations has decided to forgo Thanksgiving and start playing Christmas music non-stop 24/7 until Dec.25. It all started innocently a few years back where a couple of local stations started playing Christmas music the day after Thanksgiving or a few days later. One station saw it's ratings increase a little bit during that time. Last year, one of the stations moved up the day they started playing the music to Nov. 10. This year, just a few hours after we stopped celebrating Halloween, they started right into the Christmas music and promises not to stop until Christmas Day. If this keeps up, we might start hearing the music in mid August:eek: . It's bad enough the stores around here start putting up the decorations and start selling the associated items like trees and other items, (candy, cards, etc.) in late September, (one store had some items up and ready for sale in August!) Why don't these stores just have a special area or department dedicated to Christmas and keep it up year round. It is interesting though to go to the store and be able to buy your Halloween AND Christmas candy together:grinyes: Oh well, enough of my rant. I just wanted to relieve some stress that these stores, and now radio stations and other media outlets are trying to push the Christmas season on us earlier and earlier every year.

I totally agree. christmas music should be limited to 2 weeks before MAX.
a while ago there was a station thats theme was 'christmas music year round'. they lasted about a month.

I can't stand christmas music on the radio. I can't stand christmas-themed commercials. I can't stand the omnipresence of fake sleighbells in ad spots.

Christmas is great, but gimie a break sometime

man i just thought of this really crazy and off the wall idea, CHANGE THE STATION!!!

man i just thought of this really crazy and off the wall idea, CHANGE THE STATION!!!
That's not such a "crazy and off the wall idea". I already have! But I still get exposed to it when I'm in a public place such as a business or office and that is the station of choice that they play over the sound system. Thank God it's on one of those Adult Contemporary stations and not one of my Rock stations :lol:.

i feel the same way. my mom and my sister have already started playing Christmas music. it's only what, the 6th day of November!! Too add insult to injury, my mom also changed her ringer on her phone to some Christmas themed song, how she managed to even change a ringer i dunno.

Wait until it is actually December before you start to play Christmas music.

well, christmas shopping has already started. just walk into a Macy's and you're surrounded by santa penguins, snowflakes, garlands, ornaments, and SALES SALEs SALES!! ... thanksgiving is a retarded holiday anyway. only thing its good for is a day off and a big turkey, and Black Friday. If stores started selling things for christmas, and if this is the time people ususally start their christmas shopping, then i don't see why radio stations wouldn't play christmas songs, especially stations that know they're gonna be played inside department stores.

As much as I hate commercialization, I love Christmas. That tacky Santa Claus, claymation movie, Rudolph, and stores, and fake snow, and Christmas trees, and giving people stuff Christmas.

Oh man, I'm so excited. Except I'll miss all my family this year...meh. I'm listening to Christmas music right now...YES!

UGH Not already.

crazy americans.

no chirstmas stuff here yet.

That's because you guys are Scrooges.

No. it's because you guys are boo hoos.

Whatever...Christmas better be good. I'll be sad if it sucks because you guys are Scrooges.

Bah

It doesn't matter, I will probably be working threw christmas. If get off my ass and take care of my passport updating.

I don't know what stations yall listen to, but the ones I do don't play it like that. So maybe turn it off the soft crap and flip around the dial.

Don't let the music bother you. You should be focusing on the real reason for the season... Santa's birthday

well, christmas shopping has already started. just walk into a Macy's and you're surrounded by santa penguins, snowflakes, garlands, ornaments, and SALES SALEs SALES!! ... thanksgiving is a retarded holiday anyway. only thing its good for is a day off and a big turkey, and Black Friday. If stores started selling things for christmas, and if this is the time people ususally start their christmas shopping, then i don't see why radio stations wouldn't play christmas songs, especially stations that know they're gonna be played inside department stores.
A big problem,(although some will probably not see it that way,) is the encroachment of the "Holiday Season" earlier each year. Case in point, a bunch of stores in my area started selling all the Christmas stuff,(cards, wrapping paper, figurines, outdoor & indoor decorations in August,(right next to the sunscreen:icon16: .) Christmas music being played 24/7 on the radio the day after Halloween, and now WalMart is getting a jump start on the selling season, which in the past has traditionally began the day AFTER Thanksgiving hence the term "Black Friday." News reports are saying that if more stores follow suit , then Black Friday will be a moot point. Commercialism has really taken over the holiday season and appears to have a stranglehold on it. Before you know it, Christmas stuff will be sold year round, and stores will probably have a special department for it like their "Housewares, Electronics, Clothing, Health & Beauty, etc." Retail has come to depend on the Christmas shopping season to make up for lackluster sales throughout the rest of the year. Slashing prices and offering special sales to get customers in their doors has become a tradition will could be lost if the sales season is extended for a much longer period of time. More and more people will become "numb" to true message(s) of the holiday season.

Don't let the music bother you. You should be focusing on the real reason for the season... Santa's birthday

you are such a moron.

Your parents didn't tell you? He was delivered by the easter bunny.

A big problem,(although some will probably not see it that way,) is the encroachment of the "Holiday Season" earlier each year.
round here, we have a 365 day X-mas store, "The Christmas Tree Store" that sells more than just trees. Infact, it sells everything christmas all year round, and, even sells other holiday specific items, such as themes for Haloween, 4th of July, birthdays, etc...

yeah, christmas has become almost wholely commercialized, but to get the true meaning of the holiday out there, you'll have to remember the power of money. I think things like the claymation movies and church are the only thing that can keep the "holiday spirit" alive, but with the spoiled bratty kids these days and the release of X360, PS3, and Wii, i highly douct anyone will give a flying fuck about holiday spirit, only product availability.

edit: still, while i agree with your discontent with the commercialization of christmas, i still don't see a problem with playing christmas songs already. if anything, its a cheerful reminder of whats soon to come (and i do mean cheerful, it shouldn't exactly put images of shoppers stampeding through isles... if it does, please, see a shrink)

edit x2: 2.2, cheer up, you're getting the best damn present... a blonde in a skimpy santa costume!

2.2, cheer up, you're getting the best damn present... a blonde in a skimpy santa costume!

mmhmm....i like that...:pimp:

Traditional Christmas music can be okay as long as its only a few songs at a low DB.

For me, the most annoying christmas music i can think of is this crap of DOGS BARKING or CATS MEWING christmas songs...man i hate that.

Another thing (dont get me wrong i like christmas and all), if anybody comes a-caroling at my place at 10:30 PM like they did a few years back, they are bound to get a snowball upside the head, with a big rock buried right in the middle of it.

CHRISTMAS IS HERE, COME SHARE THE HOLIDAY CHEER!!!! *ahem* oh right, another month *packs up suitcase, jumps in a black SUV and screeches out of sight.