X-Me$$ Music Update

From the "paper of record:"

Drilling Down
‘Jingle Bells’ in Dog Barks? No, Thanks
By ALEX MINDLIN
Published: December 3, 2007
America’s least-loved Christmas song is a Danish recording of “Jingle Bells,” performed in dog barks.The song — which enjoyed brief success in the United States in 1955 and 1970 — took last place in a test of 579 Christmas recordings, performed by Edison Media Research. Edison played the songs for a national sample of 200 women aged 30 to 49, recruited via e-mail, who said that they either liked or loved Christmas music.
All five of the best-loved Christmas songs are more than four decades old. The newest recording among the top 10 is John Lennon’s 1971 song “Happy Christmas (War Is Over).”
“It is certainly a place where the rules about who’s relevant are suspended for a month,” said Sean Ross, a radio analyst with Edison. “Even the Christmas songs that we think of as contemporary, things like Wham’s ‘Last Christmas,’ are 20 years old at this point.”
Elmo & Patsy’s 1984 novelty track, “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer,” was hated by 17 percent and loved by 47 percent.

Put Just Another Blog™ in the don't hate it but don't love it category.

We'll also note that the group tested was wymyn 30-49. There may not be a "real" man in this country or Canada who likes standard Christmas songs. Nor did we know they'd tried to put the Singing Dogs over on us in '55, either. The torture never stops, does it?