How does christmas music affect your mood?

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I've kinda been wondering how christmas music affects people on the spectrum christian or not. I was personally raised christian but not only stopped "believing" by the time I was 12, but find most of the music to be irksome or sad, except for maybe 1-2 songs or stuff that's set well to rock or made in jest.

I feel like I'm going to throw up. The song gets stuck in my head, then it annoys me because it isn't a very good song, but its stuck in my head.

Urge to kill... rising



Christmas music sounds to me like what Merzbow sounds to normal people

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I hope you didn't have your speakers on loud.

I really dislike Christmas music. It just seems mindlessly happy to me. There are a few good depressing tunes, but those aren't the ones you hear in the stores from late October onward.

There is one pop song with a Christmas theme that I've heard in stores a couple of times. Something about a woman who gets dumped around Christmas and basically whines about it and claims shes going to find someone else by the next Christmas. I don't quite know what offends me so much about this song, but it does.

I don't like religious music, but non-religious christmas songs I like because they remind me of when I was a kid

The original classics put me into a good mood. The remakes make me want to puke, along with the newer Christmas songs.

The music resonates within me a feeling of a mass hypnosis:


The origin of the 25 of December date is rooted in an amalgam of superstitions.
Interestingly, the Catholic encyclopedia acknowledges this^

It's also interesting to see that star on top of the tree. The star that the astologers saw, led them to Herod first,( who wanted him killed) and then to the Christ .

Whose star was it, then?
The Devils?

I see it as a custom ( Christmas) derived from pagan mythology , that is good natured but heavily commercialized. The entire schema is an amalgam of superstitious componets ( the celebration , the date , the customs).

I call it hypnosismass.

Christmas music makes me happy. I enjoy both the religious songs and the non-religious ones.

My top favorite song about Christmas is "Where Are You, Christmas?" by Faith Hill. It reminds me of the years I celebrated Christmas while suffering from depression, so it's pretty meaningful to me. It actually gives me goosebumps while listening to it.

The only Christmas song I can't stand is "Christmas Shoes". It's made the tops of lists of Most Depressing Songs Ever.

It gives me an uplifting mood.

Lately it makes me want to punch someone because it's all so cheery and I am not.
Ba Humbug!

Christmas music is insufferable to me. It would be annoying enough on its own, but the fact that it ties in with all the hypercommercialism, superstition, and insane traffic that also make this time of year horrible certainly doesn't help.

Well... OK, I have to admit, I do like some music from The Nutcracker, just because it's so creepy, haha.

"Somebody's Watching Me" by Rockwell is a Christmas song to me beucase it's how I felt when people told me that Santa and his elf gunes were watching me. Somehow I never felt creeped out when told that God was watching me. Maybe becuase God seemed nicer than Santa. I always had more meltdowns during the winter holiday season and was told to knock it off or else I would not get any presents. Santa Claus just seemed like yet another judgemental jerk.

I personaly hate Christimas because of the disruption in routine and it seems as if the world stops for the "holidays". I'm told it is about Jesus's birthday, but I don't really see that. Yeah, I know incorperating it with the pagan solistice traditions was possibly the only way to come across to the locals as not wanting to be jerks.

Christmas music irrates me because it seems so fake.

I *might* not mind Christmas music....if I didnt have to hear it in every store after Halloween. Some of the basic hymns/carols can be so beautiful and touching...in the right place and ONCE