What Kroger Christmas song do you hate?

Date: Dec 23, 2017

What Kroger Christmas song do you hate?

Date: Dec 23, 2017

It's not the song itself, but I hate when they play a dozen renditions of the same song. A few years ago they must have played at least a dozen or more versions of "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas." The song of the year this go around seems to be "O Holy Night." What's worse is they all try to go for that high note which is okay if they rest of the song sounds good, but it just sounds desperate if the rest of the song sounds like garbage. There is one version of "Silent Night" sung by a black female. She really wails the heck out of that song in a bad way. That song is not suppose to be belted out. The title of the song should be a clue as to how the song is suppose to be sung.

The Conditioner · Veteran Member

Anonymous wrote:
There is one version of "Silent Night" sung by a black female. She really wails the heck out of that song in a bad way. That song is not suppose to be belted out. The title of the song should be a clue as to how the song is suppose to be sung.

Big thumbs up.

Christmas songs are meant to be intimate, even sacred. They're supposed to be sung by families, including children.

But Krogers chooses tracks--many of them cannot even be graced by the word "song"--which the performer clearly thinks are meant to showcase the performer, instead of understanding that of all music, for Christmas music, the performer exists to celebrate and exalt the song.

I have a special hate in my heart for the middle age lounge lizards singing children's songs, like "All I want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth" or especially, "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus", which is charming when sung by a five year old, but nearly pornographic when sung by a middle aged alcoholic.

-- Edited by The Conditioner on Sunday 24th of December 2017 09:14:38 AM

The Conditioner · Veteran Member

And oh my God "I'll Be Home For Christmas", which was originally written for warriors sitting in bitterly cold foxholes waiting to kill or be killed by Nazis. But the show biz whores singing it now seem not to know that; they think they're singing about leaving their lucrative concert tours or Vegas gigs to spend time with their dysfunctional families.

-- Edited by The Conditioner on Sunday 24th of December 2017 09:14:21 AM

The Conditioner · Veteran Member

Anonymous wrote:
It's not the song itself, but I hate when they play a dozen renditions of the same song.

This is because they only play secular Winter Festival songs. The few actual Christmas carols are played as instrumentals only. They dare not sing anything mentioning the sacred.

By the way, don't miss this article on how much people are coming to hate piped in music generally. It's distracting and isolating--which I suspect the marketers know already. That's a feature to them, not a bug.

How much would Krogers save if they told In Store Audio Network to shove it?

-- Edited by The Conditioner on Sunday 24th of December 2017 10:02:44 AM

Date: Dec 24, 2017

Anonymous wrote:
There is one song Kroger plays every Christmas, I had never heard it before working at Kroger, but it is horrible and it is also stuck in my head. I believe it goes something like, Christmas is here again... we'll be here...there be joy.... I don't know the lyrics, but the song keeps popping into my he'd and it is the worst Christmas song ever written. But now I have to look it up and listen to it.

Christmas songs CA be. Sung may ways, they don't have to be sug quietly and in pathetic white voices. The song that I hate that gets played, has the corniest lyrics, and the worst white male and female voices ever. The song is hard on the ears, it's just so awful.

Date: Dec 25, 2017

Any and ALL songs that have 20 different versions of the same thing! We finally got in the X-mas songs leading up to Christmas and I frankly say they could have just left off without them. I swear it's like one or two different songs in between a bunch of renditions of others over and over again. Just no.

Date: Dec 27, 2017

That freaking song about the hippopotamus

Date: Dec 28, 2017

Hands down, it just HAS to be "This Christmas"...Are these people freakin' nuts!!! HOW MANY D**N VERSIONS OF THAT SONG DO WE NEED TO HEAR IN A DAY???!!! AAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!

"...And this Christmas will be the most annoying Christmas for meeeeeee!!!"