Xmas promotes selfishness and greed, on a merit system purportedly, but still grabby and materialistic. So, look at me, everyone! I’ll tell you all about it!
“Dating a Narcissist at Christmas” is a parody on ‘Beginning to Look’ with some personal details given by Amber Kacherian. Bombastic rationalizations.
The Batman 2287 enters “It’s a Narcissistic Christmas” as a parody on ‘Holly Jolly’. Apparently this guy encounters no end of these selfish a-holes with big elbows.
“Christmas For A Narcissist” is punk pushiness from The Crackhouse Critters seeming to side with the self-obsessed. Privilege rules.
Since Me First is antithetical to the Christmas Spirit, ’tis The Satanic Temple who lampoons ‘Joy to the World’ with “Joy to Ourselves!” It’s all in selfish fun.
Why do you always gotta be the “Christmas Ham“? Make Like Monkeys want to know. Who ordered this center of attention? Retro rock (the good kind).
Hating everybody is a choice, but it represents a deep-seated douche-baggery that doctors should kick someone in the ass for. Or just everybody gets the boot; they’re all stupid.
Beyond Revelation half-asses the concept, using “Antisocial Christmas” as a catchphrase for a dysfunctional family. This pop easy listening AI doesn’t understand the first thing about Timonism.
When Backslash N asks “Leave Me Alone for Christmas” it’s hardly pathological. Soft country mewling about wanting a small break. Fine.
Also too “Leave Me Alone on Christmas” by Simona Fullinfaw is cheesy pop about some selfish time. I wasn’t going to spend THAT much.
The Watchman Music has a go at parody in “Antisocial Christmas Everyone“. It smacks of untalented karaoke, but injects just the right amount of vitriol. BLUE ALERT
John Tabacco sings that it’s comforting to be all alone… “Or Maybe Not“. Very strange indie.
Sondre Lerche + Jherek Bischoff recognize the need for empathy Yet the plight of others don’t fit in here/At least not now, this time of year–not if you’re into “Surviving Christmas“. Very dramatic indie with a snowman metaphor.
Glad to relisten to “Ghosts of Christmas” by TV’s Kyle. Anxiety is the haunt in this pop hand-clapper.
SpongeBob SquarePants retro rocks “Christmas Eve Jitters” so you can dance to it. The peepee dance might be most appropriate.
Concave Onion goes for the verisimilitude in “It’s a Wonderful Death“, a metal-edged so-called song about the trials of the holidays. Feels like a growing panic attack.
Lex Friedman celebrates the annual “Tension Headache Christmas” with toy piano noise and percussive kidpop. Migraine, your grain–what’s the diff? Time to drink!
Robbie Toons also transmits a skull busting ‘Carol of the Bells’ take that repeats “Christmas Anxiety” to get you in the mood to droop.
NoMoore’s “Angsty Christmas” is more homegrown, less funny, but all indie mash up (indie into indie).
Dr.Tatsiana Kukla offers advice (in more than one language) for “Christmas Anxiety“. It’s assuring, centering, and whispery indie.
AI to the rescue! “My Anxiety” by Rowdy Beck includes R+B breakdowns and cures. The lyrics are saying Give Up, but the notes are saying What’s Up?
Further AI sets up the symptoms in a light country ballad “Christmas Anxiety Relief Song“. Then via pop psychology tells us It’s OK, You’re Not Alone, Let Healing Begin, blah blah blah.
Whining is not usually a symptom of “Christmas Anxiety“, so when Wyatt HilloBerries makes half rap/half blues moans, i disbelieve in his diagnosis.
GUM! specializes our disability with “Christmas Party Anxiety“. Nice salsa beat to this pop whizzo.
From TV Funhouse comes “Tingles the Christmas Tension“, an easy listening pop reminder to all kids that adults are inappropriate, insensitive, intolerant, and racist. But they hate themselves, so forgive and regret.
A psychological state somewhere between fear and anger, guilt is how a boy deals with a stocking full of coal.
Bluffing the Ghosts narrow our focus with “Christmas, Whiskey, & Survivor’s Guilt“. This spilling of the guts in fine folk form alleviates nothing for no one no how. There will be crying.
Ray Stevens cries anti-woke “Christmas Guilt” in some odd, orchestrated showtune (thought he was country). Still, a rednecked rude-off.
Well, it IS a religious tenet. “Catholicity Hokum” confesses John Tabacco is why he feels empty inside. Bluesy indie with a comedic endcap.
And the guilt you feel when you miss a deal/Is the modern Yuletide shame is only one symptom of “The Curse of Christmas Cheer (Fast Christmas)” according to Keltic & Irish. Jiggy Celtic, yes.
They wrapped it up/In guilt and fear is the complaint of BLUE ALERT Hollow Place’s “Fuck Christmas“. Overcompensating!
Sammy J belts out “Christmas Family Guilt (Live)” like it’s the showstopper from Gilbert & Sullivan. Which is why i love it.
Battling the Elisabeth Kübler-Ross stages around the holidays finds little solace, and almost NO empathy. Stay in the spare bedroom with the guests’ coats, fer gudness sake.
“Christmas is a Grief Bomb” by Hetty White is a lively frolic through losing… well you pick. Your cat counts. Even Mother Mary saw cross beams in the manger. Christ’ll pick up the tab. (I’m babbling due to shock from listening to this.)
“Christmas Mourning” by Michael Allen Howard shouts out to loved ones in particular. But the chipmunking and kidsong melodies give one pause.
Salem Ilese takes a more morose method with her “Christmas Mourning“. New Age indie ethereality.
“Christmas Mourning” by Loser Company also draws out the notes in order to make this shabby indie into a dirge. Mission accomplished.
“Christmas Mourning” by Gavin Prophet advances to further stages as the garage pop goes rap then back. It’s a bit pissed.
Men and Mountains bestow “The Gift of Grief” with enough garage banging and caterwauling as to make a grown man cry.
The Crocodile Shop really rocks “December Mourning“, but not in a fully cathartic way. More of a party way.
Most often, the holiday ideal of TV advertisements reminds folks without friends and family to regret their independence for the holidays. It’s not a good mood. Solitude is, in fact, a solid subgenre for Xmas music. As is ‘missing you’ songs around the happiest time of the year. Those will get their due. For now, let’s focus on despondency for its own sake.
Chris Daily’s “Melancholy Holiday” strums the indie hard, justifying the Weltschmerz for its own sake.
Bob Malone’s “Sad on Christmas” doesn’t much of how no one else will see, but breathily stumbles over the piano about how sad this sadness is. Sing it, brother.
Busy McCarroll’s “Sad Young Man” also dwells on the bathos. This time, however, the concertina rag time calls in old-timey microphone fuzz as if this were 1922. Fun stuff.
Rod McKuen makes fun of you for crying in the very ’70s “Who Knows Where We’re Going?” It would’ve been about existential angst if he’d studied psychology.
If you’re feeling melancholy/Don’t let Christmas get to you advises uncredited singers on the Daily Reckless album. “Merry Christmas” says suck it up and R+B.
It’s all so mystifying, sings Jamie Cullum about why “Christmas Caught Me Crying“. Apart from the awkward anthropomorphization of the event, this lounge blues resonates.
“Christmas Tears” from Dr. BLT (he’s a real doctor) puddle jumps brokenheartedness without worrying about missing YOU. Straight up folk.
Fighting it, Dusty Strays country folks “Don’t Cry, It’s Christmas Time“. He wants you not to cry for him, Advent even. (Maybe don’t pout, either.)
“Winter in My Heart” is that poetic diagnosis that raises red flags. Atomic Neon slurs their indie to make you worry.
You may have been looking for the overserved lounge act, “Most Depressing Time of the Year” where Toiley T. Paper (feat. John B. Dehaas) debate the ups and downs of the partying. Comedy over parody. Ben Coleman also sends up ‘Wonderful’ with far less humor.
WE’s “This Blizzard’s Got Me Down” has got them nearly comatose with unhappiness. Snow Day has never been worse than in this indie.
Also with Seasonal Affected Disorder The Night Hobs haul out the violins for “Winter is Here“, the trigger for barely holding on. Indie moodiness.
This life is killing my Christmas soul, sings Little Bear in “Little Bear & The Christmas Soul“. We suffer a hard alt rock pounding as well when atonal chaos ensues.
From Contents Under Pressure’s Christmas musical the floor drops out under “Holiday Despair“. As it is a musical, emotional progress is made. So, not really despair. Just a reversal of plot.
Not only country songs deal with overwhelming sadness for December. It’s quite popular.
Almost Vinyl shows us what ‘good’ AI can do. For one, this is a Christmas novelty no one else woulda bothered with. For another BLUE ALERT and suicidal ideation beset “Harvey The Chronically Depressed Snowman.” Childrens’ jazziness, attributed to Merle Chives.
Bedbound by Summer return with the loud pop tribute “Depressed This Christmas.” They hate everybody. Sit next to me.
Akira the Don gets the DJ treatment while lecturing how “Christmas Could Be a Dark Time“. It’s all in the family. And it’s all downhill. Will this be on the final?
The Aux declares “Christmas Day” as depressing–as an adult… without a girlfriend. Slightly garaged rock. (But i think these brokenhearted depressions are a whole ‘nother category. So let’s move on.)
“Grey Skies” by The Jersey Barrier slows the indie roll dwelling on the lackluster wintry scenery contrasted against the holiday spirit. It will make you feel worse.
Screechy bluegrass allows Yulenog to peel away family Christmas joy revealing “Depresso” underneath. Yeah, family….
Aaron Grant hears about Santa and experiences “My First Depression“. Concertina punk is a comical contrast to the Life’s Unfair lesson. So, hee hee ohhh.
Confusion is a symptom of brain damage as well as a common factor among those surviving the 21st Century. Rohey Sallah admits Muslim panic trying to understand the whole holiday. In “Christmas Confusion” AI retools pop music for our lack of understanding.
Gerry O’Connell has similar difficulty with the Nativity in his electronic pop “Christmas Confusion“. Hint: Cliff Notes are in the New Testament.
Country disco AI from GhostPilot takes all the obligations of that time of the year as some big “Christmas Confusion“. I don’t follow–
Brad Bromling with Many/One has more fun scrambling carol lyrics or taking them literally in “A Little Christmas Confusion“. Be bop pop.
Misheard lyrics troubles Andrew J. Mair into “Christmas Misunderstandings“. Comedic pop that demands a vaudeville setting. Rimshot!
“Jack’s Obsession” from A Nightmare Before Christmas encapsulates delusive comprehension. Ruby Isle’s metal verzh conveys the mood better than the original Elfman.
Actual dementia is just one more thing for Denham to face in his funny family ode “All I Want for Xmas“. (All he wants is drugs.) Jazzy pop.
In Koivunen’s “Santa’s Memory” that ‘Cats’ hit is tortured into a jeremiad over Santa’s Alzheimers. Three hanky parody.
Is Santa a lie? “Santa Delusion” is AI rap from @hdammotowa. Testimony from the pulpit, i guess.
Suffering from the same malady, Alberto Baston sings “The Sleigh Ride of Delusion” living normally while seeing only Hallmark. AI showtune.
“Christmas Delusional” by The Unfiltered Era of Uncringed Hoggets is a real Sing Along with Mitch moment, only AI. And barely sensible. Ha.
“Santa’s Got a Dragon” might be prog fantasy, or it might be madness. Fugli isn’t actually judging, only saying. Ride on.
Jefferson Starship parody time! “Delusions” are diagnosed by Merkel and the Merkelettes. Fine fooling around pop rock pointing fingers.
“Momentary Flashes” seems to be Aspiga deconstructing mental health over getting gifts. Not sure. Raucous indie.
In “The Morley Christmas Rapper” Mozart Rottweiler with Sinister Undertones channel guilty E.A. Poe characters hearing what isn’t there. The rapper here is rapping, tapping on the walls. Spooky. Sardonic pop.
