AIBU to have asked workplace to turn the Christmas music off?

[Bintymcbintface]

Just that really. I work with the public and every year from the beginning of December Christmas music is blared around the place, usually annoying but hey its Christmas, that's what happens and we just have to deal with it. This year however the songs are beyond miserable and the very few that aren't, are repeated over and over with several cover versions, 4 versions of santa baby, 5 versions of let it snow, fuck knows how many iterations of all I want for Christmas is you. Slade doesn't feature, wizzard are nowhere to be seen....One miserable example being hard candy Christmas by dolly Parton, DOLLY PARTON SOUNDS SAD, the cheery, giggly country blonde genuinely sounds like she's singing through tears. It's bringing us all down and making us angry. I'm not a grinch, I love Christmas but this is just miserable as shit

I was looking for presents for my daughter last weekend. Every shop I went into was playing cover versions of Christmas "classics" that were even crapper than the originals. Why do people/record companies do this? Why can't they do something better, rather than redoing stuff worse?

I feel for anyone who works in retail being subjected to Christmas songs every day throughout December. I find it bad enough just going into the shops and hearing them for 10 mins let alone all day every day. I have to put the CD on when I hear a Christmas song on the radio as it drives me mad

We had this in Tesco years ago. 8 songs on repeat in an 8 hour shift was like torture.
I love Christmas music but I often wonder (with all the Christmas songs around) they chose 8 and put them on repeat.

I have before now suggested to the Manager of local Sainsburys that if they must have music at Christmas they have something choral rather than pop. It was not particularly well received.

I remember many years ago in a chain store on Oxford Street (I forget exactly which one) and they had 'Happy Hour' every evening, with money off or special bargains or something.

Of course, they found the ideal song: the one by the Housemartins, and they played it over and over and over again for the whole hour. It's only a short song and it's very chorus-heavy, so the assistants must have heard it 20-25 times every single day. I commented sympathetically to one assistant that it must be intensely irritating for them and she told me with wide eyes just how murderous it made her feel!

YANBU. I've been there and it's utterly horrible hearing the same songs again and again. Twenty years and I can still name some of the culprits. At least in the past there was an excuse as you were sent a tape by head office. In this day and age variety should be easy.

Holy shit that's awful

In previous years we'd accepted hearing the same songs on a loop but it's like they took away all the happy ones. I truly can't emphasise properly just how miserable these songs are. Even the traditionally cheery ones played are cover versions that have been arranged in such a way that they sound gloomy

as a shopper, I absolutely adore when the Christmas music replaces the normal music on the speakers.

there really isn’t any reason they couldn’t create a 4 or even 8 hour loop of decent songs though to give employees a break from repeats. There is a huge catalog of decent Christmas music. There is also plenty of awful Christmas music so no repeats in the season might be risky.

I love hearing Christmas music in shops! I used to work in retail and didn't mind them being on a loop.

What I hate though is loud blaring music of any sort.

I don't enjoy Christmas by listening to the same four crappy songs on loop.

Give me traditional carols any day.

Or even a swing band. Anything that's real music.