Comment on Why are there so many Christmas songs, yet hardly any New Year's ones?

Lembot_0006@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• Steve@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Seth MacFarlane has a pair of Christmas Albums, with classic non-religious Christmas songs.

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• OmegaMouse@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’m from the UK. Whereabouts are you from, to have never heard a christmas song?

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  • Lembot_0006@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’m, from Ukraine (Eastern Europe) and never heard a christmas song except for a part of some cult festive events.

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    • palordrolap@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      In Britain, especially from the 1970s to 2000s, there was always a race to be the #1 charting song at Christmas, and songs with a Christmas theme often won out, even if they were otherwise secular pop songs. This means that over the years, we've ended up with probably a hundred of them ranging in quality from terrible to great.

      America have followed suit. Or else, they might argue they started it with songs like "White Christmas" and "Silver Bells".

      This is largely down to the more permissive secular and Protestant Christian societies where irreverence is tolerated if not encouraged.

      The Catholic and Orthodox churches are less tolerant of those sorts of things, so people in countries with heavy influence from those churches - like yourself - won't have had anything like it.

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      • Lembot_0006@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        The Catholic and Orthodox churches are less tolerant of those sorts of things, so people in countries with heavy influence from those churches - like yourself - won’t have had anything like it.

        You slightly missed with your reasoning of my case: Ukraine is an exUSSR republic where religion wasn’t actually encouraged, so we don’t have any secular traditions about religious events. But because of the hardships of life, religion has crept back during the last 30 years and so have religious songs and traditions. As a result, Christmas is a purely religious event here, and it is interesting only for religious people.

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    • OmegaMouse@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Oh that’s interesting to hear! What new year’s songs do you know then?

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      • Lembot_0006@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Some songs from cartoons and movies? I think I could recall a few. No idea how they are called, of course :)

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