🙄 Holiday songs we can do without

With eight grandkids I can’t help but be a sucker for holiday music — some of it. But each year I also long to set up a cage match between Burl Ives, Mariah Carey, and the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. So I asked you what song you wouldn’t want to hear if carolers came to your door. Which song got the most mentions …?

😵 ‘All I Want for Christmas Is You’

“But of course, it's Mariah Carey's ear-bleeder." (Staci Wilson)

“If the Mariah Carey song comes on one more time …” (Te Ann)

“Immediately gets the station changed!” (Alison Maier)

😬 Also Vigorously Humbugged

“ ‘Christmas Shoes,’ a depressing song about a kid whose mom is dying on Christmas. No thank you.” (April Corbin Girnus)

“ ‘The First Noel’ I think is the title of the song. I had an ex-BF named Noel, so I do not like that song now, lol.” (Anon)

“I absolutely cannot stand ‘The Little Drummer Boy’ — even when Bowie and Bing Crosby sing it!” (Juanita Floor)

“Either ‘Baby, It’s Cold Outside’ (too rapey) or ‘The 12 Days of Christmas’ (takes too long, so the heat is leaving my house while I stand with the door open).” (April Zesbaugh)

🤔 Other Perspectives

“If carolers come to my house, I just hope they don’t sing a ‘round’ — for any song. It drives me crazy to hear that audio jumble, with people singing different parts of a verse at the same time. Keep it together or keep away!” (Dave H.)

“Hey, if they are coming to my door to sing carols, there can’t be a worst one. Whatever happened to this tradition?” (Mary)