I haven’t heard that one before either.
Unlike skydiver’s holiday hell, I absolutely hated that song from start to finish.
Yeah this song sucks. Vapid lyrics and weird half step movements in the melody that are anything but merry and bright.
This is EXACTLY what I’m talking about. It’s more than that the songs are bad. It’s like they are specifically written for the sole purpose of creating earworms of the worst sort while simultaneously being bland and inoffensive enough to fit into any retail/service setting.
For example, when I searched for the YouTube vid of that Bag song, I specifically had it on mute. Didn’t matter. It’s so ingrained in my psyche that as I got ready for bed, the stupid fucking song was stuck in my head!
If you step foot in a place like HomeGoods or Williams Sonoma there is a 100% chance you will hear this song, and possibly more than once.
It’s way weirder than I would have imagined. The song seems to be in A major but that verse is outlining a G# locrian which implies diminished chord tonality for the first two bars:
There’s a time and place each year
When Santa makes real love appear
Except there seems to be an added chromatic tone thrown in there too for REASONS. Sounds like this:
Only way I know to classify it is as an A major blues, except for the 7th would be omitted in that scale and you wouldn’t get a G# locrian variation on it. Not sure if it’s something more exotic than that or just people making stuff up. It also sounds like there’s an augmented chord in the chorus (C augmented on “Never say never”) but I didn’t bang around on it long enough to be certain. Also hearing a IV → iv → I cadence in there.
I mean it’s a basically a 2:45 jingle with a bunch of little ear-bending musical tricks thrown in. Compare that to the first pick which is like the most basic C / F / G three chord Bob Dylan song I’ve ever heard.
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This guy music theories.
Or watches a lot of Rick Beato videos
I took a tough AP music theory in high school and then same guy for jazz band. Strongly prefer Adam Neely and rarely watch Beato. The thing that fascinates me is unusual stuff showing up in popular music since classical and jazz have already been analyzed to death and you’re expecting ear twisters in those anyway.
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Upon some reflection, I’m starting to think that the Swedish song about the escaped Christmas ham is simultaneously the best AND worst Christmas song of all time.
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Happy to see this was an early pick!
Just heard our #1 overall pick come on corporate radio. Could hardly believe it was getting play. There’s no snow in (most of) Africa at Christmas because of hemispheres, motherfuckers!
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I loved this draft. Merry Christmas everyone!
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Me too! I was just telling my brother about it after he told me how he’d just heard this song by Band-Aid that was just The Worst.
Merry Christmas!
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I still randomly play that weird Swedish song about an escaped Christmas ham. It drives my wife crazy.
Great draft
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