John Lennon's 'Happy Xmas' is the WORST Christmas Song
What a terrible, TERRIBLE song this piece of shit is. Whiney, sad, accusatory, and limp. FUCK THIS SONG. To me, it is the worst Christmas song ever made and I'll tell you why.
1. In the bubble of the song itself, it is just a pain to listen to. The whole song is accusatory, preachy, and so pretentious it makes me want to puke. The worst part is that Lennon/Yoko picked the most joyful holiday of the year as the medium for their bullshit. Fuck them!
Are there objectively worse Christmas songs? You could argue it, sure. Christmas Shoes immediately comes to mind since that song is depressing as hell. You could argue that's more frustrating the bubble of a single listen setting. But there is more to the WOAT title than that....
2. Happy Xmas is on WAY More than almost any other song you could put in the running for the title. Tune into any radio station, go to any Christmas playlist, you will hear it. Every single time it comes on, the tone switches from whatever the previous song set(usually happy since, you know, CHRISTMAS) to a tone as sour as a warhead.
I think the only song that you could put in close competition is ironically from another Beatle. Wonderful Christmastime is also unbearably bad in a ton of ways. To me, it's more about how the actual musical component sounds like the ravings of a keyboardist that drank a 16 liter of LSD before hopping on a Synth. That scenario may have actually been what happened, by the way. But the big difference to me is that Wonderful Christmastime at least understands the nature of Christmas. It is a happy time meant for celebrating with loved ones. The song doesn't preach at you, it's just bad. It's the annoying kid in high school that was obsessed with a niche subject. Happy Xmas is the freshman college student incessantly posting about different social justice causes only to take a job at Exon 3 years later.