50 Absolute Worst Christmas Songs - Page 2

Every year, people put aside petty differences to agree on 1 thing: Christmas music is almost universally unbearable. Sure, there are beloved classics, but for every Nat King Cole or Bing Crosby gem, there are dozens of fresh disasters arriving annually as the music industrial complex never stops its hateful assembly line of woe. But the songs that have stood the test of time come from artists who were the epitome of musical cool in their day—Elvis' "Blue Christmas," or Wham's "Last Christmas," for example—but it's only through the Instagram lens that these have been grandfathered into the canon; that's because Christmas is never about the present but about the past. It's not this week's holiday we're looking forward to, it's the ones that have gone by. We're hoping to feel the way we used to when we were younger. And yet, the vast majority of Xmas songs are the furthest thing from a comfort blanket. Here's a countdown of the 50 ABSOLUTE worst (ranked) How many have you heard?