Holiday Music Lyrics: Points to Ponder

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22 Dec 2011, 8:45 pm

Listening to nonstop holiday music on Sunny 99.1 (a local adult contemporary station in Houston) has given me a lot to think about:

1. In the song "Do They Know it's Christmas?" by Band Aid, which probably came out about the same time as the original "We Are the World", I wonder if anyone knew that the region affected by the famine at the time is predominantly Islamic.

2. "Winter Wonderland" and "Let It Snow" would also be appropriate for Valentine's Day, since they are about romance in the winter, and not about Christmas. In fact, depending on where in the world you are, they can still be relevant by the time Easter rolls along. (disregard this if you live in the Southern Hemisphere)

3. In "Winter Wonderland", there's the line "we'll frolic and play, the Eskimo way". (1) In other words, frolicking and playing during three straight months of darkness? (it's the *Antarctic* that has three months of light at this time), and (2) aren't Eskimos called Inuits now?

4. In the song "Baby, It's Cold Outside", there's the line "My brother will be there at the door - Waves upon a tropical shore". If the tropical shore in question is the Maldives, global warming will soon force change in the lyrics.

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22 Dec 2011, 8:52 pm

Nonstop holiday music? I feel for you, son.
You forgot how "Baby It's Cold Outside" is more than a little rapey.

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22 Dec 2011, 9:04 pm

Brillemeister wrote:

Nonstop holiday music? I feel for you, son.
You forgot how "Baby It's Cold Outside" is more than a little rapey.

Come to think of it, it does sound kinda rapey.

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22 Dec 2011, 9:05 pm

If you play "Jingle Bells" backwards, you hear "F**k Da Police" by N.W.A.

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22 Dec 2011, 9:07 pm

Jory wrote:

If you play "Jingle Bells" backwards, you hear "F**k Da Police" by N.W.A.

If you play "Maybe I'm Amazed" backwards, you'll find a recipe for lentil soup.

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22 Dec 2011, 9:46 pm

Tim_Tex wrote:

Brillemeister wrote:

Nonstop holiday music? I feel for you, son.
You forgot how "Baby It's Cold Outside" is more than a little rapey.

Come to think of it, it does sound kinda rapey.

It sounds very rapey.

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22 Dec 2011, 10:19 pm

Brillemeister wrote:

Nonstop holiday music? I feel for you, son.

I got 99 problems and a "Silent Night" ain't one.

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22 Dec 2011, 11:51 pm

I would love a new recipe for lentil soup but sadly, I can't figure out how to play anything backwards. Please advise.

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22 Dec 2011, 11:55 pm

I've always wanted to try vichyssoise, ever since Batman Returns.

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23 Dec 2011, 8:40 am

Jory wrote:

If you play "Jingle Bells" backwards, you hear "F**k Da Police" by N.W.A.

If you play Justin Bieber's Christmas song backwards, you hear satanic messages.

Even worse, if you play it forwards, you hear Justin Bieber.

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23 Dec 2011, 9:00 am

Asp-Z wrote:

Jory wrote:

If you play "Jingle Bells" backwards, you hear "F**k Da Police" by N.W.A.

If you play Justin Bieber's Christmas song backwards, you hear satanic messages.

Even worse, if you play it forwards, you hear Justin Bieber.

I... can't decide which is worse.

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23 Dec 2011, 9:02 am

Jory wrote:

Asp-Z wrote:

Jory wrote:

If you play "Jingle Bells" backwards, you hear "F**k Da Police" by N.W.A.

If you play Justin Bieber's Christmas song backwards, you hear satanic messages.

Even worse, if you play it forwards, you hear Justin Bieber.

I... can't decide which is worse.

They're both equally horrible fates to befall a person.

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23 Dec 2011, 3:27 pm

Tim_Tex wrote:

1. In the song "Do They Know it's Christmas?" by Band Aid, which probably came out about the same time as the original "We Are the World", I wonder if anyone knew that the region affected by the famine at the time is predominantly Islamic.

Ethiopia is a predominantly Christian country. There is a Muslim minority but the famine was centred on Tigray and the population of Tigray is Christian.

Famine overview.
Religion overview.

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23 Dec 2011, 3:47 pm

Tim_Tex wrote:

Brillemeister wrote:

Nonstop holiday music? I feel for you, son.
You forgot how "Baby It's Cold Outside" is more than a little rapey.

Come to think of it, it does sound kinda rapey.

I see what you mean. I quite like that song but it's kind of ruined it now.

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