Water in the eyes or choking in the throat: christmas hits on the radio are not an easy thing – but when in doubt they also affect us much more deeply then “Oh Christmas Tree”. and now? Have yoru say!
Chemnitz.
Anyone who wants to endanger peace in Advent just needs the right – or wrong – shot. While conventional songs from “Silent Night” to “Christmas Bakery” are generally tolerated as unavoidable if you really don’t like them much, the pop section of festive music still represents emotions in a real and unfiltered way. Meaning: There is hardly a clear opinion on any modern Christmas song. There’s everything from rigorous rejection to tearful emotion.Nobody will find “Oh Tannenbaum” or “Es ist ein Ros’ sprung” really bad, but these songs no longer make your eyes water.
It’s wholly diffrent with Chris Rea’s “Driving Home for Christmas”, “Happy to the right heartbeat – while others completely lose their mood when listening to exactly the same piece.
we have therefore prepared a rating for you to smooth things out a bit – and at least to increase the probability of not making mistakes when choosing Christmas music! 30 radio-tested pop hits from the last 70 years are in contention: you can rank them on a scale from 0 (“choking in the throat”) to 10 (“water in the eyes”). (It is also possible to leave out some parts; the form does not require completeness). In the final result you will see where your rating is!
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let’s be clear: only serious songs are available whose intent was actually to reach people’s hearts during the Christmas season. We have wisely excluded the defenseless Christmas cucumbers from the unmanageable number of Christmas pop records in which well-known and lesser-known vocal acrobats cover famous songs. Why not: “White Christmas” is not by Michael Bublé, “Feliz Navidad” is not by Wolfgang Petry and “Let it snow” is not by Helene Fischer!
What’s engaging is that besides these 30 songs by Queen, The Farm, Justin Bieber and Band Aid, there are actually only a few other Christmas pop songs that coudl be described as classics under the Christmas tree. Probably as most pop artists already realize that with their Christmas song they enter heavily mined territory. to do this takes courage – or really exuberant adventitious feelings. In this sense: “All together now!”