Students’ Christmas tune faves

The bells are ringing, the children are singing. Allegedly everything is merry and bright.  

It’s that time of year! 

Christmas music can be heard just about anywhere, at any time.  

The SiriusXM radio has all the Jackson 5 Christmas covers.  

Your local mall will surely be blasting Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” and “Sia’s Snowman” throughout the department stores as families line up to meet Santa Claus. 

Tree lightings in town parks will have people singing everybody’s favorite carols. 

The special time of year calls for a special kind of soundtrack.  

And people are very specific on which songs they consider must have classics and Christmas songs that are a little too cringe.  

For VTSU Castleton student Madelyn Nonni, her go-to Christmas song is a cover by a modern artist.  

“Hot take, but my favorite is definitely “Mistletoe” by Justin Bieber.”  

A popular genre of Christmas music are covers of classic carols done by pop artists. Something special occurs within one’s soul when their favorite artist is singing a classic Christmas song during their favorite time of year.  

Celebrities who have done this include Ariana Grande with “Santa Tell Me,” Demi Lovato’s “Wonderful Christmastime,” and Taylor Swift’s “Santa Baby.”  

Nonni’s cringiest Christmas song is “I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas.”  

“I cannot stand it,”  Nonni said.  

However, Nonni’s trash is student Hunter Day’s treasure, so to speak.  

“My favorite Christmas song is “I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas” because it’s just so silly and feels almost unrelated to Christmas,” Day said.  

Remember the non-stop mall Christmas music? 

Day is not about it.  

“I worked in retail for a lot of my life so I cannot stand most like Mariah Carey Christmas songs cause they’re just so overplayed,” Day said. 

“But ‘Baby It’s Cold Outside’ is just downright creepy and freaks me out,” Day continued. 

That song consists of a male voice trying to convince the female voice to stay when she very clearly is trying to leave.  

And student Sya Barnes had a similar take regarding “Baby It’s Cold Outside. 

“Like ‘I can’t stay,’ and ‘it’s cold outside.’ Yeah, because it’s fucking snowing. Let me go. Just let me leave. I just want to leave. I don’t like it.” 

She has a specific hatred towards the “Glee” version of this song.  

“When Kurt and Blaine did it. I hate that version. It’s just weird. They’re wearing blazers, dancing around some chairs. Let me go. It’s just awkward,” said Barnes.  

Thomas Harris’ favorite Christmas song is the classic “Jingle Bell Rock.” 

“It always hits and is catchy and it has good Christmas spirit,” he said.  

Students surely have their favorites and least favorites of Christmas music. Maybe your favorite time of the holidays is wandering through JCPenney, doing some Christmas shopping with Frank Sinatra’s “Let It Snow” playing in the background or strolling through a lit up park with “Jingle Bells” by James Pierpont. 

Whichever it may be, the Castleton Spartan newspaper wishes you a happy listening and a happy holiday. 

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