Comment on Why are there so many Christmas songs, yet hardly any New Year's ones?

m0darn@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• OmegaMouse@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That’s true, but you don’t really hear them being played once christmas is over

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  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    After three months, we’re ready for them to go.

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    • nuggsy@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Especially if you work retail

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• communism@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Jingle bells and sleigh ride reference modern christmas traditions (Santa)

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  • m0darn@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They reference sleighs because they are (were) a practical and fun way of getting around in winter. Sleighs are associated with Santa but the songs aren’t about his sleigh.

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• samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Jingle bells

  And its ugly cousin, Jingle Bell Rock.

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• schnapsman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’m willing to bet that people aren’t playing those songs in southern hemisphere winter.

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  • m0darn@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I think they might. We should find someone from Dunedin.

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• AbsolutelyClawless@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Jingle Bells was originally drinking song, not related to Christmas at all.

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  • dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Nope, it was written for a minstrel show, to mock black folks. The songwriter later moved south to join the confederacy.

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    • AbsolutelyClawless@piefed.social ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      At least according to Wikipedia, the original The One Horse Open Sleigh was possibly intended as a drinking song. That’s also what I heard from someone I know, so that’s what stuck with me.

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