To find a lot of Christmas songs quite depressing

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Do you like Christmas songs? Every time I'm out now and they're on quite loud I feel like leaving the shop. I was thinking that 'it will be lonely this Christmas' and 'so this is Christmas' both of which I heard today are quite depressing anyway. I think a lot of them are quite depressing and I don't really like them. AIBU?

Are you feeling down? I find that if I'm not at my most festive, then I only hear those sad ones you mentioned.

When I'm happy and festive though, even Fairytale of New York makes me happy!

Try the beautiful classics instead of the pop songs. Annie Lennox's Christmas album is lovely.

There are no new ones are there? All oldies! I just ignore them. I heard a dreadful version of “I’ve got my love to keep me warm” in M and S yesterday. A total dirge and sounded out of key. Why bother? Carols would be nicer but not pc so you never hear them in shops any more. Ignore shops and buy online is possibly the answer!

They are indeed depressing. Even the ‘cheerful’ ones can induce miserable memories of xmases past where stuff has been difficult to deal with, bereavements etc. Music can exert a powerful influence on the mind.

They should all be outlawed and new ones written. This should happen every 10 years to keep things current and fresh.

Yy also I think there's something quite wistful about the Slade number. Passing of the years innit. Mind, not as bad as "Mary Bradley waits alone in the nuclear fallout zone" cheerfully tinkling around Sainsbury when you're doing your Xmas shop. I don't think Jonah Lewis ever meant it to be a ubiquitous feelgood number though.

cheap sausages I am a bit down that's true.
mrsdoyle that did give me a laugh.
barrow changing them every 10 years is a good idea. I think it's that yes, memories too of difficult times. Yes all oldies bubbles like you said.
New ones are needed! Or just ban them entirely. I think carols would be much better, maybe two weeks before only.

Ah there are newish Christmas songs. Okay they might not be great songs but they are a few fairly recent additions.

Leona Lewis - One More Sleep was released in 2013
Kelly Clarkson - Underneath The Tree, also 2013
Justin Bieber - Mistletoe is from 2011
Coldplay - Christmas Lights is 2010
Ariana Grande - Winter Things is the most recent, 2015
And I thought of the Britney Spears song, My Only Wish but that's actually not very recent, it's from all the way back in 2000 when Ariana Grande would have been just 7 years old.

Gwen Stefani has released a decent one this year.

The Cheeky Girls' Have A Cheeky Christmas always cheers me up.

In no way is it a cheap, cheesy, crappy cash-in. It encapsulates in its brief three minutes the true joy of Christmas time.

Have a Hot Hot Cheeky Christmas Night!

When DD was two her favourite was Geraldine (Peter Kay) Over and Over love to remind her of that

Every time I hear "So this is Christmas" I go into full-on midlife crisis mode. What have I done with this year, where did it go, one year closer to the grave... the first time I experienced it is was just a sort of wordless weary dread. I was 7

There's something strangely comforting about hearing the same songs each Christmas, it's like seeing friends and family you don't see very often - some you like, some you tolerate (and some you hate and grumble about on mumsnet)

I agree some of the lyrics and sentiments are quite bleak though. MrsDoyle, your tinkling around Sainsbury's really made me chuckle.

Some of them are so sad. I was on a lovely festive day out the other week and they started playing War is Over. My eyes were welling up with tears thinking about how another year had gone by and the world is still in chaos. It feels hopeless sometimes and like there’s no end in sight. With everything happening in Syria and the Middle East, it’s a depressing choice at the moment.

I find Christmas to be the most depressing time of the year and the songs are a constant reminder. Money is tight, the weather is shit and Facebook is full of family pics with little excited kids that I don't have anymore (they're grumpy teenagers now that want the world wrapped in gold otherwise it's shit).

Christmas reminds me of being a kid which should be a happy thought but all I think about are the loved ones that were with us then but aren't anymore.

Bleugh bring on new year, fresh starts, new aspirations ... much more positive!

The worst one is obviously band aid... what an utterly patronising record!

The band aid one is the worst one. What a depressing and incredibly patronising record.

My phone is a twat.

When you've got You Scumbag you maggot , you cheap lousey faggot , Happy Christmas yer arse , pray God its our last............. that's Sinatra on Toast that is (to quote dinnerladies .

Not depressing at all

YANBU Christmas Songs are all 100% wank and pathetic

ethelfleda 😂

I can't stomach band aid either.

"Don't they know it's Christmas time" - I suspect they have more pressing issues at hand to be fair.

I'm currently humming It Came Upon the Midnight Clear...now that's depressing. 'Yet with the woes of sin and strife/The world has suffered long'. And (more tastelessly) there's a certain dark Family Guy-type humour about singing this verse under your breath in the middle of the Christmas rush when you're stressed out and loaded with shopping:

And ye, beneath life's crushing load,
Whose forms are bending low,
Who toil along the climbing way
With painful steps and slow,
Look now, for glad and golden hours
Come swiftly on the wing;
O rest beside the weary road
And hear the angels sing!

Gallicos.

Band Aid can fuck off. Do they know it's Christmas? Well, given that "they" are Coptic Christians who celebrate it in January, probably not.

So many great comments I'm glad it's not just me.
'So this is Christmas' has the added bonus of making me sad about John Lennon's death.
Agreed they are like relatives who turn up once a year and you don't want to see

I find them depressing because they're all so old hat - I've had 30 years of Band Aid, Wham and even longer of fecking Slade and Wizard. Really fed up with ALL of them.

Band aid is a pretty dreadful song isn't it. I think at the time it was out we only expected to hear it for a year or two not all these years later.
Last Christmas is depressing too. Hard to think of which is the worst. Who shall we award the most depressing Christmas song to?

I thought 'alleluia' (although not strictly a Christmas song, it seems to have been commandeered) was a Nice Song until I listened to the lyrics properly.

Bony M, now they're a cheerful bunch. Even managed to get jesus in there.