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The 10 Worst (Yet Somehow Still Popular) Christmas Songs
They’re awful. They’re popular. They’re back.
Behold my list of the worst Christmas music we’re all forced to endure every December. But what makes my list of worst Christmas songs unique?
The train wrecks on my list are songs you know—songs you grew up listening to and can’t avoid hearing between Thanksgiving and New Year’s.
Most essays promising their list of worst Christmas songs include songs you’ll never hear in the mall—songs so incredibly obscure you’ve likely never heard them before. Songs like the Cheeky Girls’ Have a Cheeky Christmas, John Denver’s Please Daddy, Don’t Get Drunk This Christmas, and Tiny Tim’s Santa Clause Got The AIDS This Year.
Besides excluding these (and other) outlandish songs, my list also doesn’t contain wanna-be Christmas songs like Wham’s Last Christmas that’s more about a broken relationship than Christmas. Or the song Christmas Wrapping by the Waitresses that’s less about Christmas and more about a year-long inability to coordinate a date until the two run into each other at a grocery store buying cranberries.
Seriously.
Instead, I’ve chosen to stick to the worst of the popular Christmas songs—the songs that are played on the radio (over and over and over) every year at this time.
